This week’s TWD choice was Kugelhopf and I couldn’t have been less interested. Not only that, but I’ve never baked cookies from scratch and have been itchin’ to make some. So I did. And a wise choice it was indeed.I went with Dorie Greenspan’s “My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies”, halved the recipe and came out [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Dessert’
November 4, 2008
TWD: Rugelach
This week’s TWD recipe is Rugelach as chosen by Piggy’s Cooking Journal. I was at one time obsessed with these thick flavorful heavy cookies when I got them delivered from Murray’s Bagels in Chelsea. I’ve never really tried it in many other places, its thick and rich flavor was sometimes too overwhelming and I refrained. [...]
October 28, 2008
TWD: Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes
This weeks TWD menu is Chocoloate Chocolate Cupcakes chosen by Iheartfood4thought. I wasn’t too excited going into it, and I’m not too excited with what came out, but here is the report.
I am not a big fan neither cupcakes nor thick glazes, its too foamy and the creamy thickness of glaze makes me a bit [...]
October 21, 2008
TWD: Pumpkin Muffins
This week’s recipe at Tuesdays with Dorie was chosen by Sounding My Barbaric Gulp! and although I was not so excited about the choice seeing as how I’m on a cake/brownie/tart/cookie fix I was glad I went ahead and made these pumpkin muffins and I am very glad/devastated to learn muffins require as much sugar [...]
October 8, 2008
Caramel Peanut Topped Brownie Cake and Debate
Combine excessive heavy thick dessert-as-dinner with gloom doom sober presidential town hall debate and you will concoct a devil of a poison resulting in indigestion and mental constipation. I baked this recipe chosen by Wee Treats by Tammy for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (join before closing membership availability 10/31) and prior to baking was [...]
October 1, 2008
Tuesdays with Dorie: Creme Brulee
Tuesdays with Dorie is one woman who received a cookbook and determined to try out every recipe she formed a blog and asked others to join and support her every week. It is now a membership-only sort of group requiring you to have a blog and adhere to a set of rules to join the [...]
September 30, 2008
Last Week
A few things I’d like to share about my week.
First, all the cooking I’ve been doing. My kitchen has NEVER been so active. This newfound joy of cooking as a result of depriving my mind and body of food for 10 days brings such a refreshing clarity to my everyday and for the first time [...]
