Great Links for Learning to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing
I have always loved artsy activities. I’m especially mesmerized by the beautiful things people can do with food. From unconventional works of art to beautifully plated meals…It all makes me rather...
View ArticleTomatillo: Green Fruit Salad
This has been a lovely summer of firsts. So many first tries at so many fun things like making croissants and puff pastry dough. And even more recently, for the first time, I had a cake collapse on me...
View ArticleOrange and Chocolate Dome Cake
To commemorate Julia Child for her 100th Birthday, I drew inspiration from her Chocolate and Raspberry Dome Cake Recipe that is available on the PBS food website. What I found interesting was that the...
View ArticleTomatillo: BLT
Not too long ago, I shared with you my new found love for Tomatillos. I may have also mentioned that I made a Tomatillo BTL that I was rather pleased with Well, the ingredients should be pretty...
View ArticleMaking Swan
Kat of The Bobwhites was our August 2012 Daring Baker hostess who inspired us to have fun in creating pate a choux shapes, filled with crème patisserie or Chantilly cream. We were encouraged to...
View ArticleChoir Retreat Galette
Well….life is back to normal. School is in full swing and trying to make time for blogging isn’t quite as easy as I hoped it would be. But everything seems to be off to a good start. In addition to...
View ArticleDecorating cookies without a steady hand
This past weekend I celebrated a birthday. And since I’ve been wanting to spend a little extra time working on decorating cookies, I thought my birthday might be a good time to gift myself a couple...
View ArticleGalletas: take 2
Ingredients: 1 cups of butter (2 sticks/ 8oz) 3/4 cup of superfine sugar 11/4 cups of all-purpose flour 1 cup almond flour 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Rainbow sprinkles (nonpareils) Yellow food...
View ArticleApple Streusel Galette: Easier than apple pie????
My weekly produce boxes have been coming with their fair share of apples. Fuji mostly. So, I thought it might be nice to bake using what’s in season and what I had available to me at home. Although...
View ArticleThanksgiving Cheesy Bread!
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving; full of good food and yummy leftovers. I know I did! And considering I didn’t have too big of a cooking assignment, I was still able to take time to watch TV...
View ArticleRaincoast Crisps – crackers with raisins, sunflower seeds, and rosemary
Sarah from All Our Fingers in the Pie was our February 2013 Daring Bakers’ host and she challenges us to use our creativity in making our own Crisp Flatbreads and Crackers! I started with the recipe...
View ArticlePlay Ball!!!
Using a piping bag, a coupler and relatively thick royal icing, one can easily pipe out simple white circles. You can use a damp finger tip (just lightly wet your finger with water) to flatten out any...
View ArticleOld Baking Sheets #2- The PIZZA shuffle (some pizza tips)
Old Baking Sheets #2- The PIZZA shuffle I like making pizza at home. Sometime it comes out really really good. Other times it just comes out good enough. Either way, I am glad to say that I have...
View ArticleHome warming party and no time to blog
Well….the good news is that we’re settling into our new Southern California environment (but, I still miss home).The other good new is that Vince got 40ish people to attend our home warming party (40...
View ArticleSummer Snack #1: Garlicky Roasted Tomatoes
Ok Ok, maybe snacks should be quick. But hey!!!! it’s summer break and I’m in no rush……(deep breath of relief) More importantly If you lose patience, you can stop at just about any point on your...
View ArticleEmpanada Dough: Cooking with leftovers
Mmmmm…..Empanadas…..made from leftovers! The two thing I like best about cooking with leftovers: The work’s already been started, cutting back on time and effort. Redemption!!! It you weren’t too...
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