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Tuesdays With Dorie - Caramel Peanut-Topped Brownie Cake
Now this is more like it! I’m tired of all these successful baked goods! Give me something that I can mangle! Give me caramel peanut-topped brownie cake!
It’s a bit strange that in all my months of baking, I’ve never actually had to make a cake. I’ve made pies and cobblers, cookies and tortes, puddings and [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie: Creme Brulee
I promise that brevity will not be the norm. However, I’m in the process of starting a tough new job, and over the next few months I’ll be spending a lot of off-time studying. Look! Here be my creme brulee!
I used the broiler method, which proved to be successful enough. Half of my custards caramelized, [...]
Read More..>>Sometimes I wish the Internet didn’t exist.
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to Internet and he’ll masturbate for a lifetime.
Information has never been more available, and it has never been more portable. We are living life On Demand right now. Socialization has given way to the Facebook, friendship to the blogroll, and appointment [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie - Dimpled Plum Cake
I’m in a bit of a hurry this week, but I’ll show off the goods.
In-pan: looking okay.
Out-of-pan: flavor explosion.
I think my plums were too big, which created too many dimples. Therefore, when the cake came out, it came apart. Science.
Smell you later.
Tuesdays With Dorie - Chocolate Chunkers
In deference to the many honorable ladies and few honorable gentlemen of Tuesdays With Dorie, I have decided to bake all future recipes fully clothed. It will remain this way until Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude becomes a pay site (or until I become a Handsome Dude).
I made a few changes to the recipe [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie - Chocolate Whopper Malted Drops
These cookies came out boringly well! I guess that’s a good thing, but it’s almost embarrassing how little I have to say about the cookies. I was happy to see that there is far less butter than the previous week’s recipe. The batter was great, and the cookies came out nicely. I liked the crunch [...]
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chipsters
Yesterday did not seem like Monday, so I almost forgot to do my baking. It just seemed like a little extra slice of Sunday. Luckily, common sense prevailed and I put myself to work baking Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters.
These cookies, they are good.
After my previous disaster run of cookies (the tremendous Granola Grabbers), I [...]
Folklore and an artsy, fartsy, crafty ending
Well, it’s Thursday, and I’m surprisingly happy to announce that it’s the end of our Thursdayly adventure, Arts and Farts and Crafts. It’s been a fun ride, and I’ve been happy with all of your contributions over the weeks, but I feel like I’ve accomplished what I’ve set out to do with this thing: [...]
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie - Chocolate-Banded Ice Cream Torte
When I saw the picture in Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, “Baking: From My Home To Yours,” I was taken aback. This was going to be the hardest TWD recipe yet! I just knew it.
FALSE.
It actually may have been the easiest one, albeit the most time-consuming. The ganache came together well, as did the ice cream. I [...]
Arts, Farts, Crafts, Purr-sonal Failure, and Redemption
Arts and Farts and Crafts is a weekly artistic challenge. Every Thursday, a new prompt will be posted here on Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude. Then, you will create some sort of media based on the prompt. Is it a rhyming couplet? A ten-page story? A photograph? A drawing? A recipe? Whatever you’d like. [...]
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