NerdyBaker | I'm a wife and mother of three. I love to bake, go to the movies, and am kind of a great big nerd. Just don't tell my husband. Creamy Blackberry Frozen Yogurt. Summer has been so good to us this year. I'm trying desperately to hold on to any remainders of this wonderful season. I've already frozen tons of slices of peaches for a cold winter afternoon when I need a juicy peach cobbler. I'm now making my way through all the blackberries we have close to our house. Jam will be made, don't you worry. Creamy Blackberry Frozen Yogurt(printable version) 3 cups fresh blackberries3 cups yogurt cheese (or Greek yogurt)1 can sweetened condensed milk ( 14 ounce can, it's fine if it's a bit more or a bit less)In a blender, puree the blackberries with the sweetened condensed milk.In a medium bowl mix the puree with the yogurt cheese.Pour the mixture in to your ice-cream maker and follow the manufacturer's directions.
25 Days of Christmas Cookies Christmas at Epicurious. Baked Cinnamon Bun Donuts with Vanilla Cream Cheese Glaze. French Macaron Recipe for Your First Time Making Them (pictures included) If you’re new here, welcome! I’m AmberLee, and Giverslog is my place to share simple DIYs for gift giving, happy mail ideas, simple recipes, and more. I also just opened an online chocolate shop, The Ticket Kitchen. Stop by if you get a moment. I hope my notes here about making French macarons for the first time help you out. I’ve had a hankering to make macarons for some time. I found the process of making macarons to be every bit as delicate as I expected, but doable.
And once you have macarons down, you will be a whiz at turning out a beautiful souffle. Do you like the tag? French Macarons Tag, printable (25067) After my day of experimenting with different batches, here are some lessons learned. French Macarons (recipe from MarthaStewart.com posted here with annotations) makes about 35 macaron shells Before you begin: Choose a nice, cool, dry day to make these. Ingredients 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, 4.5 oz 3/4 cup almond flour, 2.5 oz. Method1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 1. How to Make Macarons. Macarons in the oven. [Photograph: Robyn Lee] I'm ashamed to admit that while I have eaten many macarons, I've never made them on my own. Thankfully, plenty of other people much more skilled in the culinary arts than I am have bravely attempted to make macarons in their home kitchens and have shared their results on that massive virtual brain called the Internet.
I'm going to list the most promising recipes I found while aggressively sifting through the web and, from those, pool together a list of tips and tricks for optimum macaron creation. All that info follows after the jump. Clement's recipe at A La Cuisine was the most often cited recipe I found while searching through blogs. It also differed from almost every other recipe I found due to giving measurements in volume rather than weight.
More Macaron Recipes A Few Tips Sift your ingredients, multiple times if necessary. Use old egg whites. Cooked Italian meringue may be used instead of the uncooked French one. By Dorie Greenspan. Monkey Bread with Bourbon Crème Anglaise | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn - StumbleUpon. It didn't totally blow up my radar, however, until only a few weeks ago. I was celebrating a bachelorette with some of my favorite girlfriends at a too-cool-for-school Atlanta restaurant. We had already overindulged in one too many courses of food, but our waiter gently encouraged us to order the sampler platter of desserts. Never one to say no to sweets, I caved against my (stomach's) better judgement.
I couldn't begin to tell you what else was on that giant tray of desserts. It was the monkey bread that took it all home for the gold. It was soft and tender, so light I thought it might just up and fly away. I fell hard for monkey bread that night; I've been waiting patiently for the right time to recreate it. Monkey Bread with Bourbon Crème Anglaise Serves 6-8 For the caramel coating1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted Sprinkle the yeast and a pinch of sugar over warm water and let sit until foamy, about 10 minutes.
Nutella Caramel Hazelnut Brownies. I thought we were a little overdue for another NUTELLA recipe! What about you? I have been wanting to try a Nutella brownie recipe for a bit now, but it couldn’t be just any brownie, it had to be an oooey gooey over the top slap your momma kinda brownie. And after much drooling ehem contemplation, I think I got it! I decided on a layered brownie. Maximization of flavor! Yes, layer upon layer upon layer! You can tell from looking at them, that this is no wimpy brownie.
I will tell you that parchment paper is the secret to getting the brownies just perfect! So go ahead, make a pan or two! Baci! What to do: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Feel free to add your own Nutella recipe link below: Buon Appetito! Apple Nachos! I have no clue where I originally saw this idea years ago–but in today’s blogging world, apple nachos have become just about as ubiquitous as raw ballz… But, there may still be a few folks remaining who aren’t tuned into all the apple nacho hoopla. If you’ve never tried them, give ’em a whirl! They are ridiculously easy and taste much more awesome than they sound.
Plus, my kids LOVE them as a midday snack. And did I mention how silly easy these are to toss together? Almost as easy as raw ballz. ;) Obviously this isn’t a recipe–use your imagination and your fave toppings to make THE perfect apple nachos! I used (to feed 1 1/2 kids and 2 adults): 3 crispy and slightly tart apples (we ♥ honeycrisp! For these, I sliced up some apples thin enough so it would be easy to eat the slice in one or two bites.
Then I melted some peanut butter–until it was super runny–and drizzled it all over the apples. Couldn’t get much easier! Share with friends! Easy Apple Recipes - Easy Recipes with Apples - Delish.com. Cheeky Kitchen » Slow Cooker Gooey Chocolate Cake. I’m meeting a new friend for lunch today. And an old friend for line-dancing tonight. And I’m feeling rather spoiled about it all. I mean, moms shouldn’t have TWO social events on the calendar for the same day, should we? Which brings me to the point of what moms should be doing anyway. For a long time, I measured myself by what I remember of my own mom. I remember my mom always being awake when I woke up in the morning. Terrycloth robe wrapped around her waist, soft pink slippers, a nice short haircut that wasn’t too fussy but still showed terrific style.
The odd thing is, I’ve now reached the age in my life where I am exactly as old as she was. Such is the fate of all moms. And I realized then that everyday is really a bit like living in an imaginary world. Because, ancient people don’t do lunch with new friends. And they definitely don’t join in a on rousing night session of line-dancing with old friends. They don’t make oatmeal in the morning in bare feet and spandex shorts. See? 4 eggs. Chocolate Nutella Surprise Cookies {Recipe} Mmmmm. Apparently I'm a little late getting in on the action, but it seems that the rest of the world has already long been enjoying the rich, delicious, eat-it-straight-from-the-jar chocolatey goodness of Nutella.
It's not that I hadn't heard of it before (and I'm pretty sure I had it in a crêpe in Paris many, many years ago), but why I hadn't picked up a bottle right there off the shelf at my local grocery store until recently? It'll remain a mystery, I guess. But as well as just eating it off of my spoon (even though I was having a good time doing that), I wanted to take things a step further and found a recipe for Nutella Lava Cookies that I had to try. I didn't find that they turned out much like lava, so I think a better name is Chocolate Nutella Surprise Cookies because it's like a yummy surprise burst when you bite into them. I've already eaten far too many, but really, is there ever too much chocolate? Chocolate Nutella Surprise Cookies Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Good Ol’ Homemade Brownies — Buns In My Oven. 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. 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.
You’ll need to prepare yourself for this next part. Alright, so one lick won’t hurt anyone. Look! Print. Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Layer Cake « Lea & Jay. Dark Chocolate and Salted Caramel…What a wonderful combination! Without a doubt a couple of my favourites. I am definitely way into the whole salty/sweet thing. So I was very happy to make this Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel layer cake for my friend Erin’s Birthday get-together. I’m happy to say that this cake turned out great! The cake and frostings were easy to make, though a bit time-consuming.
Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Layer Cake recipe from: Annie’s Eats Ingredients: For the cake: 2¼ cups all-purpose flour2¼ cups sugar1 cup plus 2 tablespoons dark unsweetened cocoa powder2¼ tsp. baking soda1½ tsp. baking powder1½ tsp. salt6 tbsp. vegetable oil1 cup plus 2 tbsp. buttermilk1 cup plus 2 tbsp. brewed coffee3 large eggs, at room temperature1 tbsp. vanilla extract For the filling: 1 cup sugar, divided¼ cup water¼ cup heavy creamGenerous pinch of sea salt, such as fleur de sel4 large egg whites1½ cup (3 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature For the frosting: Fleur de sel, for finishing.
S'mores Cake in a Jar. Oh friends. Hi. How are you? Judging from the above picture, you can assume I’m doing well. I’m not going hungry, that’s for sure. Guess what? S’mores jar cakes clearly top dinner recipes. Let’s talk mason jars. More on mason jars? Just so we’re clear, s’mores jar cakes have buttery graham crusts covered with fluffy double chocolate chip cake and pillowy marshmallow toppings that are so perfectly browned and bubbly you can taste the campfire and smell the midnight July breeze.
Need more convincing? S’mores Cake in a Jar makes 4 16-ounce mason jar cakes for crust: 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs 1/2 stick butter pinch of salt Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter and mix in graham crumbs and salt. For cake: (from peanut butter hot fudge cupcakes) 1 1/8 cups all purpose flour 1/4 cup dark cocoa powder 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup brown sugar 1 egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon heavy cream 1/2 cup butter, melted 2 tablespoons sour cream for topping: Apple Cider Cinnamon Rolls. Hey Everyone!! I must be in an apple phase cause every recipe with apples is appealing to me lately. I had to make these though. I love hot apple cider when the weather starts to get cold so this takes like my two favorite things and puts them together. I've never made cinnamon rolls before, but they were seriously so easy, and so delicious. The perfect balance of both cinnamon and apple cider flavoring, and the frosting, ugh!!
Quick tip: When you are ready to cut your roll of dough into individual cinnamon rolls, don't use a knife!! Apple Cider Cinnamon Rolls 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup sugar 1 package (1/4 ounce) quick-rise yeast 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup 2% milk 1/4 cup apple cider or juice 1/4 cup plus 1/3 cup butter, softened, divided 1 egg 2 cups finely chopped peeled tart apples 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar 3/4 cup finely chopped walnuts 3 teaspoons ground cinnamon Apple Cider Cream Cheese Frosting In a large bowl, combine 2 1/4 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt.
Fudgy Earl Grey Chocolate Cake. We’re eating fudgy, moist Earl Grey chocolate layer cake filled with lavender ganache and frosted with cream cheese icing. On my other website, FoodPornDaily, I often get email requests for the food featured in the daily images. An old one that I still get requests for is the Earl Grey chocolate cake. There is something magical about the way that Earl Grey tea combines with chocolate to make a mildly floral yet roasty fudgy flavor that my tongue just can’t get enough of. And seriously, I’m not a chocolate lover. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not a hater either! It’s just that I can either take or leave chocolate. In the recipe below I call for lavender extract in the ganache. *This post is dedicated to Samantha Penney and Gwen Miller for continuing to remind me to get this recipe posted! Fudgy Earl Grey Chocolate Cake Lavender Ganache (recipe follows) Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe follows) Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Place butter and tea powder into a small sauce pan over low heat.