Archive for November, 2009
Tuesdays With Dorie – All In One Holiday Bundt Cake
Outside of a little crumbling issue when I was unmolding it, this cake turned out to be the bee’s knees. I wish Thanksgiving were a Tuesday so I could share my treats with family and friends. Oh well…another week of eating an entire bundt cake alone…
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie – Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies
These cookies turned out pretty nicely on the top, and slightly burnt on the bottom. I probably should have used more pepper, as these did not have the advertised “zing” that Dorie wrote about in her bakebook.
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie – Cranapple Crisps
When I heard what our recipe was called this week, I had figured that I would be making cookies. Instead, it’s an apple crisp divided into several cups.
It’s pretty good. Mine is a little too tart. With all of the cranberries in there, I should probably have gone with a sweeter apple than Granny Smith. [...]
Read More..>>Twit
Here is volume one of my bold literary compendium: Leroy Pitts, A Life In Tweets.
On mathematics: 2legit2legit2quit=8legit²quit
On business: My business is none of your business, and business is good (not yours).
On meringue: I beat my meringues like I beat my children: at sports.
I beat my meringues like I beat my children: until they hold stiff [...]
Feeling Nice
I exercised today for the first time in almost a year. It wasn’t much. An hour on the stationary bike, a set or two of curls with some embarrassingly light dumbbells. But it was enough to make my deconditioned body all noodly, an it was enough to get my endorphines flowing.
I was [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Chocolate Caramel Chestnut Cake
What a pain!
The cake and the ganache came together great. It’s the assembly portion…it just killed me.
This is a call to action. DORIE – DO NOT MAKE US CUT OUR CAKES INTO THREE HORIZONTAL SLICES. This is not a thing that keeps cakes intact. It crumbles them and destroys them.
Also, my [...]