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Tuesdays With Dorie – Chewy, Chunky Blondies

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 27th, 2010 filed in food

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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Tuesdays With Dorie – Lots-Of-Ways Banana Cake

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 20th, 2010 filed in food

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 [...]

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Brrrrr-ownies

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 13th, 2010 filed in food

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, [...]

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Tarte Noire

Posted by Mike Spoodles on July 6th, 2010 filed in food

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).

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Rum-Drenched Vanilla Cake

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 29th, 2010 filed in food

As a teetotaler, I hesitated at the idea of rum-drenched cake. I did cut back a bit on the rum in the recipe, and the cake is still delicious so there is that. Bang, zoom, to the moon!

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Dressy Chocolate Loafcake

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 22nd, 2010 filed in food

So it’s a chocolate cake in the shape of a loaf of bread, sandwiching cherry jam, and covered in a sour-cream-based chocolate icing. Mine doesn’t look dressy because I’m sloppy, lazy, and awful. But I made it, I ate some, and it was good. There.

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Raisin Swirl Bread

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 15th, 2010 filed in food

I’d say that given all the complications in making this bread, this didn’t turn out too badly. I froze the dough for a good forty-five minutes (that’s an extra fifteen minutes) and it still wasn’t solid enough to roll. As a result, I didn’t really end up with a Swirl Bread as much as I [...]

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Tender Shortcakes

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 8th, 2010 filed in food

I’m not 100% sure how these can be tender. It’s not a chunk of meat, and it’s not love for Elvis. It’s a cake. It’s pretty good. As you can see, my sloppy presentation this week is related to cutting the cake in half. I filled it with raspberries and blueberries but you couldn’t really [...]

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Tuesdays With Dorie – White Chocolate Brownies

Posted by Mike Spoodles on June 1st, 2010 filed in food

These are not brownies, right? There’s no chocolate (white chocolate is not chocolate). The consistency and flavor of this lean more towards a “white chocolate razzleberry cake,” so that’s what I’ll call this. Still super-delicious. I would recommend bringing this to a picnic or funeral.

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Tuesdays With Dorie – Banana Coconut Ice Cream Pie

Posted by Mike Spoodles on May 25th, 2010 filed in food

When I heard this was with chocolate ice cream (which is objectively the worst flavor of ice cream), I thought it would be bad news. When I saw that the crust was made up of coconut, butter, and crumbled up cookies (I used Pecan Sandies), I thought it sounded ridiculous. When I tasted the dang [...]

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