Archive for July, 2010
Tuesdays With Dorie – Chewy, Chunky Blondies
My recipes always end in disaster when I am supposed to get them out of the pan, and then flip them over, and then flip them over again. Why would you make me do this? 1/4 of my blondies came out of the pan, and the rest wouldn’t budge. I replaced them as well as [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Lots-Of-Ways Banana Cake
There were lots of ways to eat this banana cake. I chose to cut the cake into chunks, freeze it, and then use it to cool my Mountain Dew for a tropical flavor treat. Okay, that’s actually incorrect. I slathered a bit of home-whipped, mildly sweetened/almond-flavored cream in between the layers and called it a [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Brrrrr-ownies
These brownies turned out excellently in every way – flavor, density. Heck, I even managed to properly bake them so that they weren’t goop. With the overload of Peppermint, these seem more like a Christmasy thing, although they’re definitely a bit more “refreshing” and a bit less cloying than straight-chocolate brownies. On a side note, [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Tarte Noire
Pretty straightforward, and the perfect thing to throw together after a holiday weekend – tart crusts and chocolate ganache. Delicious, too (even though Rachel says it tastes “like Hershey’s syrup in a graham cracker crust,” which has so many wrong things about it that I can’t even think straight).