10 things you need to know, to bake like a pro! 1.
We must weight. Me must measure. Because guess what? 8 oz isn’t necessarily 1 cup. Say what? I cup sugar is 8 oz, but 1 cup flour is not!!! 1 cup flour is 6 oz!!! 2. When you mix eggs with sugar, the yolks “burn” as soon as the sugar touches them, so start mixing immediately when you combine the two. If you don’t there will be little lumps of “burnt” egg crystals in the batter, which is not very “pro” like. 3. If you are trying to whip egg whites with sugar to a stiff peak, first start with the egg whites only (no speaks of yolk in them) until soft peaks form, then add your sugar. 4.Maximize the rise Baking soda, and baking powder, will begin the process of rising as soon as it get’s in contact with wet ingredients, so have the oven preheated and ready to go, as soon as you combine wet+dry. 5. If you are trying to mix melted chocolate with eggs or cream, always keep the chocolate slightly warm when adding your eggs (or cream).
If the chocolate is too hot, it will cook the eggs. Coffee Cake. Literally. This is a yummy cake for coffee lovers ONLY, man.
Just read the title. It’s not cake you eat with your morning coffee. It’s how you get your morning coffee. Better-Than-Crack-Brownies. I’m sorry for doing this to you.
I really am. But see, last Friday while I was on a 10-hour road trip heading for vacation, I received this recipe from a reader named Liz. Nutter Butter Peanut Butter Pie. Nutter Butter- Peanut Butter Pie If you hadn’t heard already, our food blogging friend Jennie lost her husband Mikey last week.
It was a sudden and unexpected loss. The kind of loss that is unfair in every way. In the midst of grieving for her lost love, she asked the world to make a peanut butter pie (Mikey’s favorite) and share it with someone they love. Jason's Everlasting Recipes: Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries.
One-Pan Dark Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie. Cupcake23recipesmall.jpg (JPEG Image, 800 × 400 pixels) Sweet saturday: one minute peanut butter cake. Picture this scene: it’s 8:30 in the evening.
The sky is just starting to get dark outside your living room window. You ate a delicious, healthy and veggie-filled dinner a few hours ago and now you are ready to sit down to the most recent episode of So You Think You Can Dance and dive into a decadent plate of dessert. Oh wait, you have no dessert. No chocolate, no cookies, no ice cream, no cake, no pie, not even a Jordan almond.
What’s a girl to do? Well she’s to go to her microwave. You can make a delicious, fluffy, moist peanut butter cake in your microwave in about one minute (30 seconds mixing, 30 seconds zapping). The options are also pretty endless. One Minute Peanut Butter Cake Print This Recipe Serves One Like my peanut butter microwave cake? Ingredients: 1 egg, beaten1 tablespoon brown sugar1/2 teaspoon baking powder1 heaping tablespoon flour2 tablespoons peanut butter1 teaspoon milk1 tablespoon powdered sugar (give or take)
Birthday Cake Batter Cinnamon Rolls. So… I didn’t just make one outrageous cinnamon roll last weekend.
I clearly made two. I think this is the end of the cake batter era. Unless I come up with something even more ridiculous to create with a cake batter flavor, I’m pretty cake battered out. Even the glaze is a cake batter glaze! These are just as simple as the regular cinnamon rolls, and perhaps simpler than the cookie dough stuffed version. In all of this cake batter madness I’ve had going on lately, there is one thing I haven’t been able to master: the cake batter flavor without the actual cake mix! So these tasted just how they look – over the top. Holy sugar rush. Of course I find them wildly fun with all of the sprinkles going on. [print_this] Cake Batter Cinnamon Rolls rolls recipe from The Pioneer Woman (with a few additions) makes 4 pans of cinnamon rolls 2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup vegetable oil 1/2 cup sugar 1 package dry yeast (or 2 1/4 teaspoons) 4 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda.