{Recipe} Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes. I love chocolate… So naturally, when I started experimenting with baking cupcakes from scratch (several years ago) I began a quest for the perfect chocolate cupcakes. I worked through several dozen recipes and of course, didn’t have too much trouble finding people willing to eat my “experiments.” I finally found a recipe titled Hershey’s “Perfectly Chocolate” Chocolate Cake, hmm, “…Perfectly Chocolate”, sounds about right to me! The first time I made it, I used Hershey’s unsweeted cocoa (as the recipe calls for). They turned out pretty good. Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes (makes 24-27 standard sized cupcakes) 2 cups sugar 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa (best quality available) 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 eggs 1 cup whole milk 1/2 cup vegetable oil 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (best quality available) 1 cup boiling water Directions- Line muffin tin with paper liners.
Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Fill liners 2/3 full with batter. Kitchen Window's Cooking Essentials Event. Vanilla Cupcakes and berries. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes and Some Exciting News! I have some news today. In creating resolutions and fresh starts, I took time to go over my blog and what I've achieved with it. As fun as it is to post things that are going on in my kitchen, it is still quite random, the things I decide to bake. I was thinking about how much I've learned over the years and how I've had to visit many different sites to learn baking techniques and tips as well as gather reliable recipes and techniques. So this year, in hopes of creating a page solely committed to teaching the art of baking at home, I've created a website, Leelabean Bakes! (www.leelabeanbakes.com/blog). Now, onto my post - yesterday, I made some cupcakes.
But that's not all! Below, you'll find the recipe. Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Swiss Meringue Buttercream By: Leelabean Yield: 2 dozen cupcakes Caramel sauce, prepared honey roasted peanuts, crushed Making the cupcakes: Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners. Christmas | Red Velvet | The Notorious Experiments. Christmas is one of those seasons that has a contagious mood, and it makes everyone want to be happy. The lights, the colors, and the happiness of the season is amazing. My family isn’t Christian, but since we’ve been in America for so long, we’ve taken on some of the traditions, and added many of our own. The week before Christmas when I was four I saw a red velvet cake for the first time. This may sound strange, but in my little four year old head there were only to types of cupcakes: chocolate and vanilla, and chocolate was the better one.
When I saw this red velvet cupcake, frankly: it blew my mind, I was amazed, and immediately obsessed. The tradition has altered a little, now instead of just having cake, my sister decided that cupcakes were I quote: In style, and definitely cuter. Red Velvet Cupcakes From Confetti Cakes Cookbook, via Smitten Kitchen The Icing. Enjoy, and happy holidays! Like this: Like Loading... Comparison stole my joy, and a recipe: chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting | The Merry Gourmet. Comparison stole my joy, and a recipe: chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting I need you to know that the food I cook is not perfect. Those of you who have shared a meal at my table know this to be true. This post is for the rest of you. My sauces occasionally stick to the bottom of the pan.
I have been known to burn vegetables while roasting them. The Parker House rolls that I serve at Thanksgiving are store-bought, from the frozen section of the grocery, and I can never get them to rise to my satisfaction. At times, I am paralyzed here, completely unable to share any of my words or photographs or recipes with you, for fear that you will find this out. There is some incredibly beautiful work online, and many of my friends — some whom I’ve met and shared meals with, and others whom I hope to meet someday — are responsible for creating it. Comparison is the thief of joy. Someone famous probably said that, possibly Theodore Roosevelt, if the Internet is to be trusted. Ingredients: Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes.
Happy New Year! The beginning of the year marks another important day for me-the 3rd anniversary of the start of 52 Kitchen Adventures! I think most of you have probably started following in the last year or two, so you may not know the background of this blog. It all started 3 years ago as a New Year’s resolution (one that actually stuck!).
I’ve always loved baking, but back then I pretty much hated cooking and avoided it when I could. I tried everything from colorful dragon fruit to mushrooms that taste like maple syrup (you can see all 52+ adventures by visiting the “kitchen adventure” category). Happy 3rd birthday, 52 Kitchen Adventures! If you’ve visited here before, you can probably tell that cupcakes are my favorite thing to bake, so it was only fitting that I made some celebratory cupcakes for the blog’s birthday. In the last 2 years, the audience has grown a TON and I’m still a little flabbergasted every time I peek at the analytics. Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes Ingredients Notes. Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe.
Peanut Butter & Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies If you are PB lover then you need to add this peanut butter cookie into your repertoire. Seriously. what’s better than a one bowl cookie? How about a four-ingredient, 20 minute peanut butter recipe, to include, making the cloud of marshmallow frosting to float at the center as well. And since it is flourless that makes this a gluten-free peanut butter cookie. Peanut Butter & Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies What the freak? And I tend to believe kid-approved recipes are the hardest to come by, you know with all their picky-ness and such. Now that we’ve established this has passed a five-year-old taste test, get moving and mixing.
Printthis recipe Saveto recipe box Ingredients: 1 cup natural peanut butter, smooth or crunchy1 cup sugar1 large egg, lightly beaten1 teaspoon vanilla extract Marshmallow Frosting 5 large egg whites11/2 cup sugar Directions: Preparation Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Leave a Comment. Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with Pomegranate Lemon Gelée and a Giveaway. It’s only a few more weeks from Valentine’s Day. If you do celebrate, I have a fabulous dessert recipe for you today. Okay, even if you don’t celebrate, you can still make this gorgeous desserts, right? Who knows, if you make this dessert for that special someone, after just one bite (of the dessert of course), that person could be falling in love with you.
Worse case scenario, that person only falls in love with this dessert. After tasting this Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with Pomegranate Lemon Jelly, my Little Boy named it “Bouncy Jelly with Cream”. Very descriptive and to the point! Just like how my Little Boy described it, the Pomegranate Lemon Gelée was quite bouncy, yet tender and smooth. Want to check out how to make these Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta with Pomegranate Lemon Gelée? 1) In a medium saucepan, heat the cream, vanilla seeds and pod on medium-low heat until simmer. 2) Sprinkle the gelatin over the milk in a bowl and let stand for 5 minutes, or until the gelatin softens. Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Recipe from Betty Crocker. Chocolate Turtle Cookies. I hope you’ve saved room for one last cookie recipe, because these were my favorites of the season!
When Steph, the social media manager from America’s Test Kitchen, sent me a copy of I had a hard time deciding which cookies to make. I asked Joseph if he could help me narrow down the options and when I opened the cover he saw these chocolate turtle cookies and said, “Those. Make those.” I told him he couldn’t take the easy way out; he had to look at all 64 recipes and tell me which one he wanted. But even after going through the entire special issue, he stuck with his original answer: the chocolate turtle cookies. And frankly, it’s just further proof that I picked out the perfect guy because he was so right. I know, it’s a new year, and eating healthier is on nearly everyone’s list of resolutions.
Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup cocoa powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, softened 2/3 cup sugar 1 large egg, separated, plus 1 egg white 2 tablespoons milk. Sugar cookies, all so sweet and pretty for Christmas | Foodmanna. A bite breaks the cookie into tender crumbs,sweet-buttery-vanillaly treat. Tender on the inside and crisp on the edge. The cheerful colors of red, white and green all celebrating the joy of Christmas. One of the traditions at Christmas is to bake cookies and send it, nicely wrapped to friends and family, nothing beats the nostalgia of classic sugar cookies during Christmas. Sugar cookies are the simplest and tastiest cookies you can ever make. December marks a full month of baking and is all about Christmas sweets and cakes I've consume more sweets than the whole year adds up.
Ingredients 400g plain flour ¾ teaspoon baking powder 225g caster sugar 250g unsalted butter 1 large egg, 60g 1 tablespoon vanilla extract ¾ teaspoon salt Cream butter, salt and sugar on med/high speed on the electric mixer with paddle attachment until light and fluffy, about 8-10mins. Divide dough into 2 portions, wrap with plastic and refrigerate until firm, at least 3 hours. -till next post, ss. Melted Snowman Cookies {& Merry Christmas!} M is for: MERRY CHRISTMAS! Well didn't that turn out perfectly?
I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas holiday. I'm down in L.A. visiting my cousin Erin and her husband Stu. My mom is here, along with my aunt, and we are certainly enjoying the 70-degree weather and sunny skies. My cousin shares my love for the kitchen, but got the good baking genes in the family. But for the blog, I have been eyeing these melted marshmallow snowmen cookies I saw on Pinterest for a few weeks. First a note about the idea for the melted snowmen. As for the actual cookie dough recipe, I'm using a family recipe. Using a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment, combine butter, sugar, egg, vanilla, almond extract, flour, and baking soda until it reaches a doughy ball.
If you are using cookie cutters, you'll want to refrigerate the dough for at least two hours before rolling them out and cutting them. From here, let your creativity take over! Here is what the different frostings look like side by side. A Tribute to A Charlie Brown Christmas...in cookies. Kids these days have it so easy...back in the olden days, if you missed a Christmas special (that aired ONCE all season), you had to wait until the next year to see it. I vividly remember the year my mom took us to confession (CONFESSION!!!) And when we got home, I realized we had missed The Grinch. I was in my early teens and, I hate to admit, I needed to go right back to confession after that realization. I probably did not honor my mom in that moment. ANYWAY...A Charlie Brown Christmas was one we watched EVERY year. I always love Lucy: {Notice how I put Lucy next to Schroeder?
Lucy Van Pelt: I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that. Lucy Van Pelt: You're the innkeeper's wife. I'll let you in on a little secret...there was an incident with Sally's cookie... ...I *knew* I flooded it just a bit too much, but it looked like it would be ok. Who is your favorite Peanuts character? {psst...Merry Christmas!!!} Chocolate Covered Cookies — Roxana's Home Baking. Hot Chocolate Cookies | Sweet and Savory Tooth. Because of these cookies, and my need to try out random adaptations of recipes, I was extremely close to starting a major house fire. Definitely my biggest kitchen disaster to date… I’ve seen these hot chocolate cookies circling the food blogs recently and I knew my family would be the perfect taste testers (we’ve extended our weekend Washington trip quite a bit longer).
You see, about half of my family is very into hot chocolate. My one sister even drank it non-stop on our cruise in the middle of summer. I just can’t do that- hot chocolate is for cold weather, or at the least just wintertime, if you happen to live somewhere that is consistently warm. They go through boxes ANYway, the disaster. So, I made myself feel better by thinking that, when you drink hot chocolate, you don’t ever toast the marshmallows anyway, right? These just scream “Christmas cookie.” Hot Chocolate Cookies. A Charlie Brown Christmas Sugar Cookies. In case the title or the Snoopy cookie didn't give it away, the theme of this year's Christmas sugar cookies is A Charlie Brown Christmas.
This was my favorite Christmas TV Special when I was a kid, and it is still my favorite to this day. Mr. Apron and I own the DVD and it is one of the first Christmas movies we watch after Thanksgiving to put us in the holiday spirit. When I found a Snoopy cookie cutter I knew I had to make these cookies. But I didn't want to just make Snoopy cookies. When Mr. The Snoopy Cookies were not hard to make. For the colored lights on the dog house I used sugar pearls. The Snoopy cookies are final cookie in this year's theme. The first cookies were the snowflake cookies. There were two scenes that gave me the idea for the snowflake cookies. The second scene that gave me the idea for snowflake cookies is when Lucy, Linus and friends are catching snowflakes on their tongue. The second cookie was Christmas Trees in green, pink and blue.
Iced Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies and the U.S. Botanical Gardens. This week I went to the U.S. Botanical Gardens next to the U.S. Capitol to see the annual Christmas display. This year's "Who Lives Here? " exhibit features houses of critters, fairies, and presidents, as well as national monuments. The creative team from Applied Imagination, a Kentucky-based crew of artists, botanical architects and landscape designers, spent eight months creating this amazing display entirely out of natural material.
Fairies made of flowers and hot air balloons made of leaves hang from the ceiling while below are little abodes made of nuts, bark, fruits, and moss, cozily situated among the garden plants. Here is the 'Porcupine Place'. The level of detail is absolutely phenomenal. All of the monuments are also constructed out of twigs and leaves and vines. If you are in the DC area over Christmas, I highly recommend going. These snowflake cookies were inspired by the earthy fairy houses: decorated with detail on a down-to-earth gingerbread cookie. Ingredients: Directions: Christmas Tree Meringue Cookies Recipe | Cake and Allie. Mint meringue cookies are an easy treat that you can put together in just a few minutes, with minimal effort.
Most people buy meringue cookies in the store (Trader Joe’s always has a big display by the registers), but you can make them at home for a fraction of the cost with a few ingredients you probably have on hand. I saw these Christmas tree meringues last week and I thought they were a fun spin on a traditional cookie. To make the trees, you just need to pipe a cone shape with a large, open star tip.
I topped each tree with a Wilton star sprinkle, but you could top them with a chocolate star too, or anything else. You could also go the extra mile and pipe little royal icing Christmas lights on the tree – I think that’d be a cute touch! Christmas Tree MeringuesIngredients: 4 egg whites, room temperature 1 cup sugar Pinch of cream of tartar 1/8 teaspoon of peppermint extract green gel food coloring star sprinkles royal icing Preheat 200F.
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