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Sunday Sweets: Butterbeer Cupcakes | amyBITES - StumbleUpon. Love Butterbeer Cupcakes? Check out Golden Snitch Butterbeer Cake Pops! Welcome to a very special edition of Sunday Sweets! If you’re new to this blog, let me explain. Sunday Sweets is a series I do every few weeks to share super indulgent recipes that wouldn’t otherwise be featured amongst my healthy, everyday eating recipes. Most days you’ll see healthy fare here, but we all need some sweets now and then, right? Onto the good stuff!. . Your cast of characters for the cakes. First, cream your room-temperature butter together with your sugars until well-combined and fluffy, like so: Now beat in your eggs, one by one. Now you’re going to alternate adding buttermilk… Cream soda… And your dry ingredients (whisked together) until they’re all added. I could’ve eaten this entire bowl with a spoon. And bake for 15 to 17 minutes until a tester comes out clean and the cake springs back slightly when touched.

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Continue Reading » Steaming Technique | How to Steam Food All About Steaming Steaming is a moist heat cooking method. Continue Reading » The Secret To Great Saute Continue Reading » Saute Cooking Videos Continue Reading » Continue Reading » Just Bento | a healthy meal in a box: great bento recipes, tips, and more. Inuyashasch. Play with your food. We’re pleased to announce the availability of the Egg-Bot Electro-Kistka: An electric hot wax pen designed to be used with the EggBot. A kistka is the wax tool used in the traditional wax-resist and dye (batik) method to produce colorful eggs in the same fashion as Ukranian pysanky. We would like to acknowledge that this is not by any means the first time that anyone has strapped a kistka to an EggBot— We wrote about Ann’s DIY version a few months ago, and we’ve seen other versions (both manually heated and electric) in YouTube videos dating back several years. Hardware The Electro-Kistka consists of two main parts, connected by a cable: A heater assembly that gets mounted to the EggBot’s pen arm (in place of the usual pen holder), and a power control board that sits behind the EggBot.

The power control board is relatively simple: it accepts input from a plug-in power supply, and has an adjustment pot so that you can set the power level of the kistka. Process: two-tone. Ice Cream Gyoza. Gyoza, or Japanese potstickers, are not normally served with chocolate fudge sauce, but ice cream gyoza are! Here’s how to make your own cookie dough and ice cream dessert gyoza. Gyoza presses, also called dumpling, potsticker, or dough presses, are readily available and can be found relatively cheaply. We found ours at Daiso, a Japanese dollar store chain. We used this recipe from Cupcake Project for eggless cookie dough for “raw” eating rather than baking.

That’s a good idea because what we’re making here is not baked or fried, just simply cookie dough and ice cream. You can also use your favorite recipe or even store bought dough (and make your own judgement call about eating raw dough that contains eggs). Mix up the dough, roll it into a log, wrap in plastic and refrigerate until it is well chilled. Cut a slice of dough off of the log onto a piece of plastic wrap. Fold the plastic wrap over the slice of dough and roll it out until it is a little larger than your gyoza press.

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