Italian Recipe: Homemade Cannoli. Italian Recipe: Homemade Cannoli Of all the mouthwatering dishes to come out of Sicily, cannoli might just be the best known and best loved. Few can resist that decadent ricotta filling, the flaky pastry that surrounds it. While cannoli are commonly considered an "Italian" dessert, the truth is you won't find them in most any respectable bakery on the Italian peninsula. These treats are 100% Sicilian. Be wary of any so-called cannoli sold in other regions of Italy. Alternatively, you can whip up a batch of your own! Follow along as we give you the scoop on making your own cannoli: homemade shells stuffed with a creamy ricotta, chocolate chip & cherry filling! Homemade Cannoli Shell Ingredients: 4 cups all-purpose flour2 tbsp brown sugar1/4 tsp of salt3 tbsp of softened butter2 egg yolks1/2 tsp of nutmeg2 tsp cinnamon3/4 cup sweet Marsala wineshortening, for frying Filling Ingredients: Directions: 1.
Recipe adapted from Instructables and Food.com. 60 Second Chocolate Chip Cookie A la Mode. I had so much fun developing this recipe. Talk about kinda dangerous though. This baby is baked in 60 seconds, no lie!! The cookie dough recipe is prepared right in your ramekin, so we are also talking about minimal dishes. Win win, right? You know those fabulous pizzookie’s you order at certain restaurants? In any case, Enjoy my friends!! Start by creaming your butter and sugars right in your ramekin. Just like so, light and fluffy. You’ll add a couple tablespoons of beaten egg next. A splash of vanilla please. Give another good stir of the spoon until combined.
Once combined, add your dry ingredients right to the ramekin. Flour, salt and baking soda all set! Give a few stirs then…. Time for some fabulous chips! Oh yah! Top with a lovely scoop of vanilla ice cream and drizzle with my homemade magic shell! Mmmmm. To share or not to share? 60 Second Chocolate Chip Cookie A la Mode Ingredients Directions Place butter and sugars into a 2-cup ramekin, beat with spoon until well combined. Almost-instant sweet wine ice-cream. How To Make Croissants [Chocolate Croissants, Pumpkin Spice Croissants, and Cinnamon Sugar Croissants] I hope you’re ready to see a billion underexposed photos of the same exact dough over and over and over again. Please say yes, because you will be rewarded with this. This was a… project. To say the least. I have been dying to try homemade croissants for ages, but after mention of them when I made almond joy scones, I could hardly wait.
I have a very nostalgic reason for loving croissants: since I was young, each summer my grandma would always pick up a croissant from the Bread Box Bakery in Boyne City. But I also have a superficial reason for loving croissants: It’s Complicated. Too bad they don’t mention that it takes like 14 hours to really make croissants. I’m not about to tell you “oh! Oh… and I made four flavors of croissants: traditional, chocolate, cinnamon sugar and pumpkin spice. Easy enough… it all starts with some yeast and flour. I know you have all of the ingredients in your kitchen, which means you should probably start right now. No. Then you fold it up like a letter. 1. 2. Just Cook It.
Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies. Certain things happen when you bake cookies that taste like muffins. Cookies become breakfast food. Midnight snacks too. You pass them off as two servings of fruit. Or three. You sleep-eat cookies. You closet-eat cookies. They somehow disappear. You weep. Face, meet cookies. Few things in this house bring excitement like a soft, fluffy cookie filled with bursting, plump blueberries. Yeah. Who wants a cookie? Brown Sugar Blueberry Cookies makes 12-15+ cookies 1 stick butter, at room temperature 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 tablespoon milk 3/4 cup fresh blueberries Preheat oven to 375.
Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Remove dough from fridge and roll into 1 1/2 inch balls or scoop out with an ice cream scooper. Cookies > muffins. Nutella-Mallow Pillow Pockets. When I tell you this, take me very seriously…..run, don’t walk to your nearest grocery store and make these today! I knew I wanted to make a Nutella treat the other day and when this simple idea came to mind I had no idea how crazy good it would be! The pastry with the gooey disappearing marshmallow and nutella make for a treat that you just must try for yourself! Enjoy! Can you handle this line up?! Sorry, I forgot to add one egg for the egg wash Um….this stuff should be illegal. I think one could devour the entire jar in one sitting!
Ok, easy easy. Take a little fork and crimp those edges, nice and firm. Next, you’ll brush with an egg white wash and sprinkle with sugar, mmmmm! Get a load of this! I sprinkled mine with a little powdered sugar Oooey, gooey and delish! Nutella-Mallow Pillow Pockets 1 package puff pastry, 2 pastry sheets thawed 1 Cup Nutella spread 1 Cup mini marshmallows Egg white wash: 1 egg white whisked with 1 Tablespoon water Powdered sugar for dusting 1. 8 pockets. Macarons. A lot of people get the wrong impression about macarons and avoid making them because they’re supposedly the most difficult thing in the world to make. Truly, they’re not difficult at all. What is difficult is mastering them. For some reason people mistakenly think if something can’t be mastered on the first try, it’s too hard to fool with. But there’s no reason to master macarons on the first try. Unless you just burn the crap out of them, they’re going to taste phenomenal regardless of their flaws.
It’s like leaning to ride a bike, except that when you “fail” you get delicious cookies instead of a skinned knee. Each time one of those things happen, you have a chance to learn about what went wrong with your technique if you want to learn. If this is your first time making macarons, read through these posts to familiarize yourself with some common problems and mistakes. I get a lot of macaron emails each week and most of them are about a question already answered in one of those posts. How to make macarons - some tips and tricks. For those of you who read this blog regularly, you will know that macarons are one of my obsessions. Some of you may remember a couple of my early attempts (here, here, and here), then the epiphany of the class at Lenôtre in Paris.
Following that class, I had a number of successes and I found the recipe to be very similar to Helene’s (of Tartelette blog) and I used a combination of the Lenôtre techniques with Helene’s recipe most of last year, with varying success. Being a Taurean (stubborn) and A-type (a planner) what bugged me about macarons was how unpredictable they were. On many occasions I have wanted to make them for dinner parties or gifts but given the fact that I never knew if it was going to be a “feet” kinda day, I always chose something else.
Until recently. In a serendipitous moment, I happened across The Brave Tart, a blog by Stella, the Resident Pastry Girl at Table 310, via her gorgeous picture and recipe for florentines. And voilà: The “lunch duty” macarons. Blue-Eyed Bakers - Blue Eyed Bakers. Romancing the Stove. Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter...Midnight Snack. Need a midnight snack? Or anytime snack for that matter, my cookies and cream peanut butter might just knock your socks off I was so lucky to have my sister and her family visit earlier this week and I got to have some kitchen time with her beautiful girls.
They are just the sweetest things ever. Hope you’ll enjoy this naughty snack that’s good enough to eat by the spoonful! Here’s your 3 ingredient line up. Break out the Oreos. My sweet little helper, I miss her already! Here’s the second stinker that kept passing through the kitchen. Pour those Oreos in a large bowl. …as well as peanut butter Time to melt the chocolate chips Use either a double boiler or melt in the microwave.
Add 2 tablespoons of peanut butter to the double boiler, helps melt the chocolate nicely. Add the chocolate to the bowl! Mmmm Give a gentle stir and place into a mason jar. Yes please. Double yes please. Cookies and Cream Peanut Butter 10 whole Oreo Cookies 2 Cups creamy peanut butter 1 cup white chocolate chips 1. 2. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups. Soooooo… you know that episode of Sex and the City where Miranda has to dump dish soap on top of chocolate cake just so she will stop eating it?? Uh. Yeeeeeah. These are like… of that caliber.
And that totally almost happened to me. I ate what felt like a million, then had a plate of 5-day old green bean fries from the fridge and called it lunch. I definitely recommend those. For lunch. Face? Inhale. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cups [cookie dough adapted from cookie dough dip] makes 24 cups 2 1/2 cups milk chocolate chips 1/2 cup unsalted butter 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 cup creamy peanut butter 3/4 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips In a small saucepan, heat butter until melted. Line a mini muffin with with liners. Remove muffin tin and cookie dough, then place 1 teaspoon of cookie dough (I somewhat rolled mine) into the chocolate cups. Sigh. Sea Salt Ice Cream Recipe - Food.com - 177919.
Pie. Brownie. Cupcake. Cookie. Cake. 3 Things I Learned from a French Laundry Alum - Powered by Tofu. I don’t care if cake pops are the new cupcakes. I despise them. Pie pops I could probably get behind, but cake pops… no. Just no. So I remain convinced that the next best thing since cupcakes is still the French import of macarons. Several weekends ago, I took a “Mastering Macarons” class at Sur La Table. While we may not have totally mastered them (oh, please, we totally did… ok, I guess that will be determined after we make a second go of it), it was fun learning about a treat I knew so little about!
Turns out the teaching chef, Ben Whitten, was a French Laundry alum (& also chef of Candybar — a dessert lounge in San Francisco). So here are three cooking tips I learned this time: 1. How do you best remove the egg yolk, leaving just the white? 2. “The more money you spend on fancy vanilla bean extract, the more money you’re throwing away.” 3. Sometimes when I’m cooking I get a little too busy or if I’m cooking a new or more difficult recipe I can feel like I’m starting to fall behind. Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting | Kitchen Runway. Le Petit Ogre: Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread.
The new year is all about eating healthy isn't it? Well for me, a heathy body includes a healthy mind. And sugar is one of those necessary things to sustain a healthy mind. It is almost a daily consumption for me. And I don't mean eating a whole apple pie or chocolate cake, but a cookie or a (heaping) spoonful of Nutella. Of course some days I will indulge more than others, and when that happens you eat a bit more broccoli or bike a little further. It's all about balance, right? Right. Well this cinnamon sugar pull-apart bread from Joy the Baker certainly has the right qualification to sustain a healthy and happy mind. I mean who doesn't love cinnamon, sugar, and soft yeasty bread, that you pull apart and let sing in your mouth.
Enjoy! Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread Makes one 9x5x3-inch loaf For the Dough: Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Eight Fatty Snacks To Lose Weight. Craving a snack? Put down that bag of chips and step away from that chocolate chip cookie. Instead, try these eats, which are loaded with healthy fats that help control hunger and promote weight loss. QUIZ: How Much Fat Did You Eat Today? Hard-Boiled Omega-3-Enriched Egg These eggs come from hens fed an omega-3 enriched diet, typically from flaxseeds.
GALLERY: Breakfasts of Slim Celebrities Trail Mix Make your own healthy-fats trail mix by combining walnuts with dried fruit like raisins, cranberries and apricots. MORE: Cranberries, Walnuts, and Crumbled Cheese Over Greens Flaxseeds Sprinkled On Salad Just 2 tablespoons of flaxseeds contain nearly 200 percent of your recommended daily value of omega-3 fatty acids. MORE: Order a Stunning Salad Macadamia Nuts, On Non-fat or Greek Yogurt A whopping 83 percent of fats found in macadamia nuts are the “good fats,” making this one of Dr. MORE: Skin-Soothing Yogurt Mask Mini bruschetta MORE: Iron-Deficiency and Inflammation Handful of Almonds. Design Crush & Popsicles! Not to sound full of myself, but I’m pretty sure this is the be all, end all of popsicle roundups. There’s a little something for everyone: the foodies, the purists, the ones who prefer frozen yogurt, the ones who prefer a little alcohol, everyone.
Tweny-five options to be exact. The post I did last summer on the cold guys was one of DC’s most viewed ever, so I thought you’d all be up for another round – was I right? Click on the photo to be taken to the recipe. All photos and recipes copyright of their respective source unless otherwise noted.