3.2.09
These cookies have a shortbread base and are very sandy in texture. They don't spread much and can be delicate. I think I made them a little bigger than the recipe reads. I also didn't sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
Shortbread Rounds (recipe on the bag, but not on the website)
Little cookies with big milk chocolate chips that melt in your mouth.
Yield 3 1/2 dozen 1-inch round cookies.
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/4 cup sugar
2 cup unsifted all-purpose flour
1 cup (6 oz) milk chocolate chips
powdered sugar for dusting (optional)
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Cream butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer at low to medium speed until light. Gradually add flour until combined. Stir in chips by hand. If dough seems dry or crumbly, it will stick together when shaped with your hands.
Using the palms of your hands, roll well-rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into 1-inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheets and bake 13-15 minutes. Cookies will still be pale. Let stand 2 minutes before removing from cookie sheet and dust with powdered
sugar if desired.
Labels: baking, chocolate, recipes
14.3.08
i want this hello kitty sewing machine!
and this:
xyron create-a-sticker
i wonder if feverlights@ lj. still has those cookie cutters? or i can just try to go to daiso and look?
cute baking supplies always on my mind?
e's joie has recipes but she also sell cute baking things!
always on the lookout for tutorials!
here's sewing tutorials at
burda style- open source sewing!
Labels: baking, crafts, diy, sewing, sewing machine, tutorials, wants
2.1.08
Chocolate Chip Cookies a la Anna Olson
These cookies were yummy, but they didn't spread much. They stayed chewy and wonderful.
original recipe here:
Chocolate Chip Cookies a la Anna Olson from food network canada
winnepeg eats' view on anna olson's cookies
kayaksoup's version of anna olson's cookies
Cookie Madness is one of my favorite baking blogs of all time!
Labels: baking, chocolate, cookies, recipes
1.11.07
As Halloween comes to an end...
With all the candy still in tow,All your pumpkins are in a row...to be made into pumpkin pie.
cooking for engineers' pumpkin pie - this year it's this recipe for Thanksgiving. I've always liked to use the Libby's recipe. Making my own crust? Maybe not this year. It's interesting to see that Michael Chu of CookingForEngineers.com has blindbaked the pie crust and cooked the pumpkin filling beforehand- making for one tasty pie. Can't wait to try it!
Whole Wheat Sablés
Labels: baking, pumpkin pie, recipes, sables
9.10.07
more chocolate recipes!
coffee fudge brownies at slashfoodmake your own homemade twix @ chow.com.
october is breast cancer awareness month!
visit
bake for the cure!
Labels: baking, brownies, chocolate, recipes
5.10.07
Cookie recipes that I want to try!
brownie points' alice medrich's melting chocolate meringuesbaking bites' brown sugar chocolate chip cookies
Labels: alice medrich, baking, chocolate, cookbook, recipes
1.2.07
Chocolate Bread Pudding
okay, this is my first try at my own food porn. lol. the pictures are terrible,especially where the ice cream scoop is about to melt over the bowl.haha.
Chocolate Bread Pudding( adapted from Martha Stewart's Chocolate Bread Pudding)The ingredients with the starred notations are my substitutions.
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups milk ( i used 2%)
1 1/2 tsp of madagascar burbon vanilla extract*
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon*
5 mini baguette (not sourdough) loaves*
8 ounces BAKER'S semi-sweet chocolate plus 2 ounces BAKER'S unsweetened*
8 large egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar*
Heat the oven to 325°F. Place the cream, milk, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat, cover with plastic wrap, and let sit for 30 minutes to infuse flavors.
Cut the baguettes to into 1/4-inch thick slices. Reserve the end pieces. Then, cut the slices into quarters. Fill a 9-by-12 glass baking dish with the quartered pieces.
Return the milk mixture to a boil, remove from heat. Add the chocolate and whisk until smooth. Combine egg yolks and sugar in a large bowl and whisk to combine. Pour chocolate mixture very slowly into egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly, until fully combined.
Slowly pour half the chocolate custard over bread, making sure all the bread is soaked. Arrange the reserved bread on top in a decorative pattern, and press firmly so bottom layer absorbs the chocolate mixture. Spoon remaining custard over bread until it is completely covered and cracks are all filled in. Place plastic wrap over the dish: press down to soak bread throughly. Remove plastic and wipe edges of dish with a damp towel. Allow dish to sit for 30 minutes.
Bake for 45 minutes. Cool slightly for 15 minutes. Serve with ice cream (I used Breyer's Chocolate-Vanilla-Strawberry) or creme fraiche.
Notes:
The original recipe noted 1 whole vanilla bean, split in half lengthwise, seeds scraped, 3 cinnamon sticks (optional), 1 loaf brioche( about 1 pound, or substitute white bread), 12 ounces roughly chopped valrhona or other bittersweet chocolate, 3/4 cup of sugar. The last step for baking the bread pudding was to set the glass dish into a bain de marie, baking until set for about 35 minutes. I tested this pudding for the first time without the bain de marie and found out it came out a drier product that was still yummy. LOL. The next time I make this using the hot water bath.
Labels: baking, chocolate, food porn
7.1.07
Yasukochi's Coffee Crunch Cake
Saturday afternoon, my mom, my husband, the babies and i went to SF Japantown...in search of the beloved BLUM'S Coffee Crunch Cake my mom had long coveted. First stop we make is to Yasukochi's Sweet Stop, located in the Super Mira grocery store. The owner,Yasukochi,was there today. He was really sweet and friendly, considering we were there just at the last minute. My mom was really excited and decided to purchase the Coffee Crunch after delegating with about what cake she wanted: either the mocha or the coffee. I said you should get the coffee one, since you've missed it for how long. We were talking to the owner about how my mom heard about the cake from tv and that how she was missing BLUM's special cakes, since BLUM's had closed its doors in '69 or '70...she was soo elated that Yasukochi's still made these cakes. He had mentioned EYE ON THE BAY and had numerous news clippings about his bakery on the counter. And said counters were practically empty! There were only few cakes left, and we had gotten the last Coffee Crunch cake!
The cake was $22.00 and worth every penny and every yummy bite.
Labels: baking, cake, food finds, yummy
6.12.06
Am, Stram, Gram, Pique, Pique...wishing I was in Paris.
i've been following the blogs, the girl who ate everything and davidlebovitz.com...et moi, je suis jalouse parce qu'ils peuvent manger d'une telle nourriture magnifique ! (translation:yeah i'm jealous cuz they're eating such magnificent food, k? :P hehe.) roboppy went to laduree and pierre herme. and god, you have to see the pictures of the desserts and food she's had there. and david, he lives there.i'm drooling...now i want to go to paris and break out the old dictionnaire française and try, note try to parlez français. okay so i'm being a little facetious.
en l'honneur de roboppy et david, je vous donne des recettes du jour:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2005/08/long_live_the_k.html
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/231583
this are recipes from brittany/bretagne/briton, a french province known for their fleur de sel and butter. i'll be working on these as well. wish me luck!
Labels: baking, Far Breton, France, french, Koigu Amann, Laduree
20.11.06
Chocoholism and Dulce de Leche
i am admittedly a hardcore chocoholic :Phence i spam you with recipes about chocolate:
david lebovitz's dulce de leche brownies with his homemade
dulce de leche! i am soo going to make this~ :D:::
and make this:
Korova Cookiesfrom dessert first~ :D:::
Labels: baking, brownies, chocolate, dulce de leche, recipes
