I’ve been wanting to get involved in the Royal Foodie Joust* (see the Foodie Blogroll thing on the right) for awhile but before this month either the ingredients were too precious for me to play around with or I just didn’t have the time. 
And I almost didn’t have the time this month – I forgot about it until 2 weeks ago, but we were busy preparing for a family trip, and then when we returned we were so busy catching back up on work that the week just flew past – but it kept floating around in the back of my mind, so I decided to try anyway, even if I couldn’t actually enter the contest. Luckily for me, the deadline was extended a few days, so today I gathered up my ingredients and all of the random possibilities that had been parading through my mind. The result totally surprised me! Read the rest of this entry »
Posts tagged dessert
Cherry Pie
Once again, it has been awhile since I have baked anything. Since I will be starting grad school at the end of August, you might as well get used to it. *sigh*
But I was commissioned to bake dessert for tomorrow’s Father’s Day celebration, so I finally had a chance to try something I have been wanting to do for a couple of weeks: a cherry pie. Read the rest of this entry »
Dirty Cookies
Brad requested chocolate chip cookies again. Having been reminded myself of how delicious they are, I couldn’t refuse. But I could do a little experiment with an ingredient I’ve been wanting to try.
Halloween Apple Treat
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
I stumbled across this recipe for something called an “apple brown betty” recently and, per my addiction to all autumn-oriented baked goods, had to make it.
Experiments in Chocolate Cake: No Perfect Peaks
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
Experiments in Baking, it may seem obvious to say, springs from my love of baking. My love of baking, in turn, comes from my love of science, and my love for the incredibly basic yet transformational processes that turn a mixture of individual liquids and solids into a completely different, edible form.
the collapse, side view
My chemistry was a little off tonight. My egg whites wouldn’t peak at all and I, frustrated, simply mixed them in anyway. Which produced a chocolate cake, still edible, but completely collapsed in the center.
It’s still delicious, of course.
Experiments in Smores
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
It’s a simple one tonight.
I was supposed to bake a cake but forgot to buy eggs. This was Brad’s idea for a replacement dessert.
Ironic, considering Brad hates camping.
Experiments in Stollen
My younger brother came to visit right before Christmas. He seems to have a fear of failure, plus a lack of confidence in his own abilities. So the last couple of times he’s come to visit, I made him make bread with me – one of the hardest, and therefore most satisfying, things a person can do in baking.
This year, since it was so close to Christmas, we made Stollen. Read the rest of this entry »
Chocolate Chip Mountains – An Update
The last recipe I posted for the chocolate chip mountains was entirely experimental and a little convoluted. This is the simplified, perfected version and it was a big hit at Christmas – especially with my father-in-law, who loves cookies so much, he hides them so no one else will eat them. (I provided him with his own little batch, of course).
Making Mountains Out of Chocolate Chip Cookies
I have a recipe for amazing chocolate chip cookies that also happen to be low-fat.
And I have a recipe for “Snow-capped Mountain” cookies that taste incredible too.
So in a little fit of nostalgia for the mountains I grew up near, I decided to combine the two.
