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Tuesdays With Dorie – Espresso-Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
These are amazing. Somehow I managed to get the perfect crumbly texture in these. As always, the looks are where I slacked a bit. Deal with it. Cue sunglasses. I’ll shovel these to the people at work. They’re coffee junkies – and hell, they ate carrot cookies, so I’m fairly certain they’ll tolerate these.
Read More..>>Toll House Cupcakes
These cupcakes are family favorites – these are the treats we always supplied for the class on our birthdays in elementary school. The reason for this is because they are awesome. They are more cookie than cupcake – it’s a cookie-dough batter with a filling of egg, brown sugar, and chocolate chips. They’re gooey and [...]
Read More..>>Crazy. Pizza. Bread.
I made a version of this recipe for CRAZY PIZZA BREAD. Crazy. It was very good, although really with all of the cheese tucked in like a pocket, it was pretty much a stromboli. I didn’t use olives because Rachel doesn’t like them. I carmelized some onions and chopped up some salami to use as [...]
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie – Crunchy and Custardy Peach Tart
I understand that my mini-tarts look like cheeseburger quiche. This does not make them any less delicious. Lumps of cookie-ish streusel on top of a custard peach tart. I’m super pleased by this recipe, and the hassle of dragging out my food processor for the dough was offset by the ease of making the custard [...]
Read More..>>Cookies and Cream Cupcakes with Fudge Frosting
Rachel bought three cupcake books to aid us in our pre-wedding-cake experiments. Two of the books have recipes that start with “choose favorite cake mix.” These are not books that I plan on using for these experiments. The third, infinitely better book is called “Crazy About Cupcakes” by Krystina Castella. All of the recipes are [...]
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie – Oatmeal Breakfast Bread
Here we are. Another Tuesday and another brief-but-dumb post from the ugliest foodiest dude you know. I used raisins in this bread, although I wish I had used dried cherries or chopped up dried apricots because I’ve never really used them in baked goods and raisins are overdone. The bread is super-soft, probably due to [...]
Read More..>>Ghetto Soft Pretzels
I made soft pretzels tonight using this recipe. They taste really good, and like you’d expect from this website, they look dumb as hell. Previous recipes have never really browned properly for me; this recipe involves parboiling the uncooked dough in a baking soda solution prior to baking. IT WORKED. IT’S A MIRACLE. On the [...]
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie – Chocolate Ganache Ice Cream
The ice cream was pretty good. I must have messed up a tad with the ganache, because it seemed like the stuff was a bit grainy with chocolate (or maybe it’s due to my stubborn insistence to use generic-brand chocolate chips instead of the quality bittersweet chocolate that Dorie calls for in her recipe).
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie – Gingered Carrot Cookies
There are so many things wrong with vegetables in cookies. However, these cookies were good. THEEEEE END.
Read More..>>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 [...]
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