Your Likes. The Pastry Affair - Home - Quinoa&Pudding - StumbleUpon. Quinoa has recently piqued my interest. I didn't realize it existed until I happened upon it while spending endless hours looking at recipes (and pictures!) Of food on the internet. I spotted it in everything from salads and breakfast to desserts. Suddenly, I found myself wanting to know more. What was quinoa, exactly? Was it a grain? Was it like rice? Luckily, nowadays the answers are never too far away.
Coming from the Midwest, quinoa is as foreign to our culture as tofu or bean sprouts. Quinoa is a suspicious little food. In fact, as I learned while digging up information, the Incas so loved quinoa, they deemed it sacred and referred to it as the "mother of all grains. " When I finally got my hands on a package of quinoa, the possibilities were endless. Quinoa Pudding is a twist on the traditional tapioca pudding. Quinoa Pudding Adapted heavily from eCurry Yields 4-6 servings Place quinoa in a fine mesh sieve and rinse under cold water for 1 minute.
The Infamous Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies - StumbleUpon. Now, I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I swear by. I love it, I think it is incredible, and I haven’t changed my mind about that. However, as much as it pains me to say it, these chocolate chip cookies by Jacques Torres are absolutely, without a doubt, the best chocolate chip cookies that I have ever made or tasted in my entire life. I guess that’s why they call him Mr. Chocolate! These are a chocolate chip cookie of another color, that’s for sure. Either way, I made these and everyone that tried them went nuts. Edit: For more Jacques Torres deliciousness, check out my Jacques Torres Chocolate Mudslide Cookies! Your ingredients. Whisk together the cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Beat together the butter and sugars, until light and fluffy, at least 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla. Add in the flour mixture, very gradually, until just moistened.
Fold in your chocolate. Author: The Crepes of Wrath Prep time: Cook time: Cinnamon Roll Pancakes | RecipeGirl.com - StumbleUpon. Updated 9/22/11 to Add: If you’re coming here to sample these delicious Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, you just might like the latest recipe that I’ve posted for Pumpkin Cinnamon Roll Pancakes too. And Gingerbread- Cinnamon Roll Pancakes too. Enjoy! Here’s a short video sharing how to make these delicious pancakes: If you’ve ever thought you needed a reason to eat pancakes, today is the day: National Pancake Day! Eat a short stack for breakfast, enjoy them for lunch, or make a dinner out a manhole-sized pancake… guilt free… because you’re merely celebrating their existence.
How do you like your pancakes? Buttermilk? But recently I started dreaming about mixing cinnamon rolls and pancakes together… and this is what I came up with- my new favorite pancake: Cinnamon Roll Pancakes. I have a wonderfully fluffy pancake batter that I like to use (recipe below) so I swirled a bit of cinnamon roll filling into the pancake. See, just like a cinnamon roll. Oh yeah. Yield: Eight 4-inch pancakes Ingredients: Flourless-fudge-chocolate-chip-cookies from chocolateandcarrots.com - StumbleUpon. I just love the idea of a flourless dessert.
I don’t know why. Maybe it’s how amazed I am that something so delicious, chewy, and chocolaty can come out of it. As soon as I saw Lauren‘s cookies on Keep It Sweet I knew I had to make them myself. I had to taste the fudgy and chewy, yet crisp chocolate chip cookie. This was a good great move. You should totally make these.
They are super quick to make and the reward is very gratifying. {Flourless} Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookies found on Keep it Sweet adapted from Recipe Girl Ingredients 3 cups powdered sugar2/3 cup unsweetened Hershey’s dark chocolate cocoa powder1/8 tsp. salt2 to 4 large egg whites, at room temperature1 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract1 1/2 cups 60% cacao chocolate chips How-To Preheat the oven to 350°F.Set aside two baking sheets with silpat mats or parchment paper.In a large bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar with cocoa powder and salt. Yield: 30 cookies Related posts:
Salted Mudslide Cookies | How Sweet It Is - StumbleUpon. Cool people put salt on their cookies. Really! I swear. It’s not scary. Be a cool person. Because cool people also put booze in their cookies. Mudslides were one of those drinks that I thought were insanely cool when I was 13 or 14 years old. A few summers ago at the beach, my uncle started blending mudslides one afternoon, changing up the typical bourbon/rum punch flow of the day. [You know... kind of like the time she thought Obama's name was "Omaha" for two weeks and asked every Sunday if we could take a quick stop at "Louie's" to looks at flowers.
So Mother Lovett, mudslinger in hand, got her drank on while sitting approximately 5 inches from the big screen TV so she could adequately hear Dr. By the time we came back up to our condos to get ready for dinner… she was MIA. Now I can’t ever drink a mudslide without thinking of Mother Lovett drunk as a skunk. But it’s 2011 people! I topped these cookies with sea salt flakes that I also found while on vacation. Salted Mudslide Cookies. Your Likes. Homemade Snickers Bars | How Sweet It Is - StumbleUpon. Insanity. That’s what this is. Pure In.San.It.TEEEEE. You know those days when you’re in desperate need of sugar and you’ve already downed more gummy vitamins than recommended while seriously considering how many more you can ingest without causing severe harm to your internal organs?
They’re just so gooooood. Well… in that case you should make some homemade snickers bars. Because I definitely did that. And I KNOW you know what I’m talking about. I spent the majority of my pre-pubescent and adolescent years scheming just how I would be able to steal my brothers’ Halloween candy. Then I went through a SERIOUS phase of those Snickers ice cream bars. And that you can eat a million of them. These days, it’s rare that I crave actual candy, often preferring some chewy cookies or super rich cheesecake or a bar of amazing chocolate that costs thrice as much as the recent organic meyer lemons I purchased.
They are the peanut butter to my jelly. The salt to my pepper. The broccoli to my… wait, no. Lulu the Baker: The Tale of the Carmelitas - StumbleUpon. We live in a big-but-not-huge town. We have a P.F. Chang's and a Pottery Barn and two malls and two full-price movie theaters. But we don't have a Williams-Sonoma. Instead, we have a few delightful, locally-owned kitchen stores. One of them holds a monthly baking contest, and these Carmelitas were supposed to be my ticket to local baking contest greatness. See, a Carmelita is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill treat. When I got my kitchen store newsletter in January, I started planning out my strategy. The email naming the winner took a few extra weeks to be sent--no lie--and I was on pins and needles the whole time. Epilogue: If I sound just a wee bit crazy, get a load of this!
CarmelitasAll of the crazy obsessiveness boils down to this: Carmelitas are to-die-for. 32 caramel squares, unwrapped 1/2 cup heavy cream 3/4 cup butter, melted 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed 1 cup flour 1 cup rolled oats 1 teaspoon baking soda 6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips. Deep-Dish Cookie Pie - StumbleUpon. And than a warm chocolate chip cookie? If you answered, “Katie, is better than a warm chocolate chip cookie,” you’ve obviously never met a cookie pie. (Above, topped with a super-healthy ice cream recipe I’ll post next week.)
This pie is everything you’d want in a cookie. Except, oh yes, it happens to be ! I could sit here and tell you about how I was in charge of dessert for our neighborhood Memorial Day party. I could tell you about my desire to the neighbors with a sinful-tasting finale and then surprise shock them by revealing said sinful dessert was really not so sinful after all. But really, you don’t want to know all of this, do you? Side note: If you make 1/4 of the recipe, you can put it in a mini springform pan for a baby pie, like the one above. (gluten-free!) One of my Special Diet Recipes . 2 cans white beans or garbanzos (drained and rinsed) (500g total, once drained) 1 cup quick oats (or certified-gf quick oats) 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce 2 tsp pure vanilla extract. Apple Cider Spice Doughnuts | Our Best Bites - StumbleUpon. I bet every single one of you is thinking right now, “Hey, I wish those Our Best Bites gals would post some more treats!
We haven’t had enough of those lately!” What’s that? You need doughnuts? I hear you loud and clear! During the summer between high school and college, my well-meaning parents thought I should have something better to do than sit around and be super-annoying for three months, so I was forced to get a job. Anyway, during this window of generous doughnut sampling, I discovered one thing: I like yeast doughnuts, but I love cake doughnuts. These cake doughnuts taste just like fall. Apple Cider Spice Doughnuts 1 c. apple cider, preferably fresh apple cider or something high-quality like Simply Apple 1 c. sugar 3 1/2 c. all-purpose flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice 1/4 c. butter-flavored shortening 2 eggs 1/2 c. buttermilk 1 quart canola or peanut oil (for frying) Spiced Sugar Shake or whisk to combine: 3/4 c. white sugar.
Good Ol' Homemade Brownies & Buns In My Oven - StumbleUpon. This may be a cooking blog, but I find myself sharing some of my deepest, darkest secrets (never having tried oatmeal before, for instance) here. So far you all have accepted me and all the horrible things I’ve kept hidden for years and years. I can only hope that you will continue to stand by my side as I reveal this next bit of private information about myself. I prefer my brownies to be made from a box mix. I’m sorry, okay? It’s just who I am and I have to be me. Writing a cooking blog isn’t going to change who I am.
It just won’t, okay? Except, well, I’ve recently discovered a brownie recipe so beautiful and delicious and rich and fudgy and chocolatey and oh goodness, I should just go ahead and admit it. Just go ahead and scroll back up there and look at those brownies! This recipe starts out by melting butter and sugar together in a sauce pan, and I know, there are lots of one bowl brownie recipes out there, but these guys are worth the extra dirty dish. Look! Print Save Ingredients: Brownie Candy Cups & bakerella.com - StumbleUpon. Want to eat a BIG bowl of cookie dough? - StumbleUpon.
If you received an email from Pinterest saying I didn’t want you to pin my recipes, this is NOT true! I am so sorry for this and have no idea why they would send such messages out! Please accept my apologies… I’m so honored when people pin things from my site or follow my Chocolate Covered Katie Pinterest Board. Healthy Cookie Dough Dip… it’s like an unbaked form of those popular White Bean Chickpea Blondies. I don’t know about you, but when I make the blondies, quite a bit of the raw dough gets consumed in the process! So I figured, why bother baking them at all? But will “normal” people like it? Often, I’m unsure if a recipe with which I am in love will be a hit with the general population of people who aren’t used to healthy food. The following is directly from my About Chocolate Covered Katie page. I refuse to believe one must give up delicious food in order to be healthy… Healthy food can taste incredible when it’s prepared the right way.
Something amazing happened… Ingredients. TENDER CRUMB: My FAVORITE Chocolate Chip Cookie - StumbleUpon. I have experimented with countless recipes searching for that perfect chocolate chip cookie. The characteristics of the perfect cookie are a very personal matter, and here are my preferences: texture: chewy w. medium thickness --- everyone has their preference, and this is mine! Chocolate to cookie ratio: 50/50 --- I really enjoy having a lot of chocolate in every bite chips vs. chunks: chunks --- I like sizeable pieces of chocolate in my cookie. type of chocolate: bittersweet --- I like using Valrhona 61% extra bitter nuts or other add-ins: NONE!! With the above criteria in mind, this recipe is the closest I've come to experiencing CCC perfection.
. - Don't substitute the pastry and bread flours w. . - Hand chopped chocolate chunks, NOT premade chips - I will purchase a hunk of the best bittersweet chocolate that I can afford and hand cut them into chunks. . - Chill the cookie dough at least 24 hours (I let my dough sit anywhere from 2-3 days) before baking. 5 Cakes You Can Make in Your Crockpot | Family Kitchen - StumbleUpon. By Brooke McLay | From Chocolate Lava Cake to a moist and rich Carrot Cake, whipping up a cake in your crockpot is even easier than making Sunday dinner or a dip for the Saturday night game! Just mix the ingredients together, toss them into your pot, and you’ve got a cake that will turn out perfect every time, guaranteed! Here are 5 must-try recipes that you can make in your slow cooker this weekend. No muss, no fuss, just fantastically simple flavor in a few easy steps! Nggallery id=’120029′ Citrus Kissed How pretty is this slow cooker lemon poppyseed cake?
Peanut Butter Baby A peanut butter cup cake is one thing. Wascaly Wabbit This Crockpot carrot cake is moist and sweet and totally splendid. I Been Down that Road Before Chocolate, marshmallows, and a heap of nuts make this rocky road cake a totally perfect treat. Chocolate Cravings Hot fudge cake is, perhaps, the ultimate way to enjoy cake from your slow cooker. Pressed for time? Deep Dark Chocolate Cookies | Divine Baking - StumbleUpon.