Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes. The last time I had an Irish Car Bomb was senior year of college. As I recall, I didn’t even really want to drink it. I hate beer, and I stay away from whiskey if I can help it, but my friend Melissa told me that if I chugged the drink really quickly all the ingredients would mix together and taste exactly like a chocolate milkshake. She LIED. The Car Bomb was nothing like a chocolate milkshake. As I choked down the thick fizzy brew, all I could taste was the bitter yeastiness of Guinness, the burn of cheap whiskey (Canadian Mist), and the faintest hint of sweetness from the generic cream liqueur we bought instead of real Baileys. It. Was. (Blurry. This cupcake version of the Irish Car Bomb does make me happy, however.
Happy early St. ** I know that the name “Irish Car Bomb” is technically sort of offensive, but it’s the name I’ve always known the drink by. Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes Author: justputzing Recipe type: Dessert Preheat oven to 350. (Adapted from Lauren’s Couch’s recipe) Double Dark Chocolate Cookies – The Healthy Version! Quick Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls. Quick Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls Sweet rolls are a favorite around our house and these Quick Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls were no exception.
I based the recipe on the 40 minute hamburger buns from Taste of Home’s Best of Country Breads cookbook. You’ve noticed I use this recipe frequently. The recipe calls for 2 tablespoons of yeast which seems like a lot but it allows you to forgo the rising time. I get great results making dinner rolls, sweet rolls or hamburger buns. The kids were out of school on Friday and they helped pour concrete sidewalks around the house.
I added pumpkin to the bread dough and in the filling and the results were a soft sweet roll bursting with fall flavors all slathered in cream cheese icing. Adapted from Taste of Home’s Best of Country Breads Ingredients: for rolls: 1 cup warm water2 tablespoons yeast1/4 cup sugar1/3 cup oil1 egg1/2 cup pumpkin puree4 1/2 cups all purpose flour1 teaspoon salt for filling: for icing: Cooking Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Enjoy! Miss. Candy Corn Macaroons. “Trick or Treat” What kind of a question is that? Treat, every time! In our poll last week of favorite Halloween candy, “candy corn” came out on top! This seasonal treat is a fun way to get festive for the season.
These Halloween Macaroons are an exciting way to incorporate candy corn into a new recipe! Scare up some fun in the kitchen this week and make this easy treat! CANDY CORN MACAROONS (click here to view and print recipe) 5 cups (1 14-ounce bag) shredded coconut 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1 3/4 cups candy corn Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. SWEET POTATO BROWN SUGAR CINNAMON ROLLS. Today is sweet potato day. I've just made some sweet potato cinnamon rolls that are the moistest, softest, cushiony-est, sweet potatoe-iest buns I've ever made. This recipe is one that I concocted. There was a lot of vacillating between cake, buns or onde-onde.
But finally ...a decision. And more importantly ....action. And these rolls are here to stay. You just have to make them. I used Japanese Sweet Potatoes....the purple skinned kind. The large proportion of grated sweet potatoes gave the buns so much flavour, moistness ans richness. I must declare too that those sweet potatoes were steamed, drained and sat in my fridge for the longest time. The recipe ~420 gm steamed, cooled completely, peeled then grated sweet potatoes (Japanese kind) 400 gm plain flour 1 1/2 tsp instant yeast 1 1/2 tsp sugar 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 40 gm butter 1 whole egg, beaten to just mix 120-130 ml water at room temperature Extra butter, softened, about 3 oz...maybe I think the purple just didn't do it.
Homemade Pumpkin Pop Tarts. Friday, October 28, 2011 Homemade Pumpkin Pop Tarts Homemade pop tarts are easy to make and you can fill them with whatever you want and shape them and decorate them however you want. So I decided to make pumpkin shaped pop tarts, and fill them with a pumpkin butter. Pumpkin butter, if you’ve ever had it before, isn’t so much like butter. It’s very sweet and jam-like, so a perfect filling for pop tarts.
These ended up being very small so they are more like mini pop tarts. To make the pop tarts, I used a circle cookie cut out to make the pumpkins from the dough. PrintSave Pumpkin Pop Tarts Ingredients:1 premade pie crust pumpkin butter for filling orange frosting for decorating (I made my own with some powder sugar, milk and a few drops of food coloring)Directions:1. Fake Food Free: South African Hertzoggies. When I think about all the countries in this world, I realize that I have prepared cuisine from very few. Take South African cuisine, for example. I’ve seen it in blog posts, there is even a restaurant in town, but it is one food that I have yet to explore. Lucky for me, we have a friend here who is from South Africa.
She hooked me up with a cookbook so I could explore a few options. It’s taken me months to get down to business and get baking, but I think you may find these worth the wait. Hertzoggies are a pastry also sometimes referred to as coconut tarts. Despite their association with coconut, I have to say what gets my attention after now having taken several bites is the apricot filling. These cute pastries are surprisingly easy to make. The filling is super simple, just an apricot jam. My Hertzoggies browned up a bit more than photos I’ve seen, but I expect that is because of the sugars I used. South African HertzoggiesModified from Hertzoggies, Cook with 7 de Laan Dough.
Coconut Pancakes | Cravings Gone Clean. I’ve been on a coconut streak lately, and here is the first of the recipes: pancakes! Serves 2. Here’s the batter: 1/4 cup almond milk (or milk of choice)1/4 cup egg whites (or more milk if you’re vegan)1/2 cup spelt flour1/4 cup flax meal (replace with flour if you like)1/4 cup oats1/2 tsp baking powder1/2 tsp coconut extract Mix the batter. Once batter is mixed, pour pancakes onto oiled pan/griddle (I spray with olive oil)after pancakes are pour, sprinkle 1 tsp of unsweetened flaked coconut onto each pancake (on the liquidy side)when you flip the pancakes, the coconut will get all nice and toasted! About the ingredients: I’ve used the grains I’ve used because I find them to be healthier alternatives, and they work for me. If you really want to make this rich, replace the milk with coconut milk (or lite coconut milk). What’s your favorite pancake flavor? Like this: Like Loading... Nutella Filled Pretzel Bites | Kirbie's Cravings | A San Diego food blog sharing restaurant reviews and recipes.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Yes, I played around with my jar of Nutella again. This time I decided to stuff some soft pretzel bites with nutella. I got the idea after my peanut butter stuffed soft pretzel bites. The chocolate hazelnut spread gets a little melty when cooked inside the soft pretzel dough, so it sort of oozes out, which I love. I wish I could have stuffed more nutella inside for a full lava effect but then the soft pretzel dough wouldn’t seal properly. I’m so used to savory soft pretzel bites, but I liked this sweet chocolate version. Author: Kirbie’s Cravings Prep time: 2 hours Cook time: 6 mins Total time: 2 hours 6 mins 3/4 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water1/2 tablespoon sugar1 teaspoons salt1 1/8 tsp active dry yeast2 1/4 cups all purpose flour1 ounce unsalted butter, melted1/3 cup baking soda1 egg yolkNutella spread for filling Combine the warm water, sugar and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and sprinkle the yeast on top.
Chocolate Covered Pretzles & One in the Oven! Well some of you may have noticed that my blog has slowed down considerably over the last few months. If there was ever a good excuse, this is it... I'm pregnant! Very pregnant as a matter of fact, my due date is in less than a month! Ross and I couldn't possibly be more excited. I didn't plan on blogging so infrequently while I was pregnant, but it just kind of got away from me. Now, with my due date quickly approaching, I seem to have my mojo back.
These pretzels are an homage to my pregnancy. Chocolate Covered PretzelsIngredients:Mini Pretzels1 lb chocolate (any kind will do) or candy meltsSprinkles (optional)Directions:Melt the chocolate in a microwave or a double boiler.Dip the pretzels in the chocolate. Cream Puffs | Cream Puffs Recipe. I first fell in love with cream puffs when I was in primary school. In my class, there was this boy whose father owned a popular bakery shop and their specialty was cream puffs. Every year, the bakery would sponsor their cream puffs to the students at the school; we would bring back a box filled with the sweet, puffy, custardy cream puffs. I just loved them and couldn’t get enough, and secretly wished that one day I would own a bakery with endless supply of cream puffs!
Check out this cream puffs recipe from my contributor Ho Siew Loon. The craze over Japanese-style baking and pastries continues. Great cream puffs are always puffy on the outside but hollow on the inside where we put in the filling. You might also be interested in the French version of cream puff here, by David Lebovitz.
Lemon Cardamom Churros with Spicy Chocolate Sauce….. With my sister in town and Thanksgiving around, I am sure having a week filled with emotions and fun and anxiety and goose bums. Long night chats, beautiful drives and two sisters giggling over anything and everything is the highlight of this week. This Thanksgiving I am thankful for all the love I am blessed with, my family, my friends and you all, Thank you for making my life so blessed and beautiful!! I’ll keep it short and quickly share today’s recipe with you all. Let’s add a little twist to everyone’s favorite potatoes on the holiday table. So wishing you all a beautiful Thanksgiving; I wish your day and year is filled with good food, great friends love and laughter always… Amen! Ingredients For Soup- 4 large tomatoes, quartered. 1 teaspoon oil. 1 tablespoon butter. 1 small onion, sliced. 1 ½ teaspoons garlic, chopped. 1 teaspoon ginger, chopped. 1 teaspoon salt (or as per taste). ½ teaspoon black-pepper freshly grounded. 1 tablespoon sugar.
For Croutons- Instructions For Soup. Orasnice. Dugo sam razmišljala kakav uvod za ovu poslasticu da napišem. Šta god da kažem, neću moći rečima da dočaram veličinu ovog kolača. Ne znam ni koliko slike mogu da pomognu, ovo je nešto što mora da se proba, a verujem da ga je većina vas probala. Mislim, ipak su to Orasnice! Svaki istinski oraholjubac mora da ih ima smeštene među top 3 kolača sa orasima.
Orasnice su kolač koji ima tu specifičnu crtu tradicionalnosti, miris starih vremena, a mnogo vas će ih sigurno vezati za vreme Božića. Ukus oraha, taj šmek nečeg arhaičnog koji sam orah ima, u ovom kolaču u potpunosti dolazi do izražaja. Jedno vreme porodično smo imali običaj da s’ vremena na vreme kupimo gotove kolače. Postoji toliko recepata za ovaj kolač i ako imate svoj provereni teško ću vas ubediti da ga menjate. Zapanjila sam se kada sam nedavno videla cenu orasnica u radnji.
Sastojci: • 2 jaja • 180 g šećera • 1 kesica vanil šećera • 500 g oraha Priprema: Jaja i šećer kratko umutiti mikserom. Choco sticks. Ever tried the Cadbury fingers? They are long and thin cookies shaped like a skinny finger, coated in chocolate (a childhood favorite). These are made with some LU cookies, but any butter cookie will work. The cookies are crushed and the resulting “flour” is used in lieu of regular flour in this recipe. These are fun to make, especially when coated with different things like chopped nuts or sugar crystals.
You can also keep them plain and coat them in melted chocolate after they cool. (A good activity with kids as the summer is dragging on). Their taste is intensely chocolate, especially when they are left plain. INGREDIENTS: 50 sticks 150 g. dark chocolate12 LU (substitute any plain cookies such as the Marie cookies or animal crackers)=1 cup +1 Tablespoon of cookie crumbs1/2 stick of butter (50 g.)2 eggs1/3 cup of sugar (75 g.)1/2 cup of powdered sugar (or more) if using to coat the cookies1/2 cup of crushed toasted pecans and pistachios (optional) or any other nuts. Carrot Cake Oat Macaroons. By Lauren Zembron, on August 1st, 2011 I’m not quite sure how I went so long without a macaroon fix, but I decided it was high time to create another variation to what just might be my favorite cookie recipe. For this go-around I went with a carrot cake flavor profile, using grated carrots, chopped pecans, and a trifecta of warm spices: cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.
As with the other macaroons, these cookies are soft and chewy on the inside with a crisp crust on the outside. In other words, they are the texture that all cookies should be! In my cookie-loving opinion, that is. The orange hue from the carrots didn’t come through in the photos as much as I’d hoped, but the color is definitely apparent when they’re in front of you… as is the enticing aroma! Oh wait. I digress. These macaroons boast the kind of cookie deliciousness that makes it nearly impossible to eat just one. Carrot Cake Oat Macaroons Printer-Friendly Recipe yield: 30-32 macaroons, depending on size (my batch made 32) Macarons from Sadaharu AOKI, Paris.
My friend claire went to paris again to visit her fiancé's family and i got more sadaharu AOKI's macarons this time yay!! This is my third time having them this year (so lucky) and not just that, i got to try three cakes from there as well! Claire said she got me different flavors this time but i couldn't really tell since they looked pretty similar from previously. the one at the top, think it was coffee and the bottom, earl grey. both were really good i felt like i just died and went to macaron heaven!
I should hv requested her to get me the yuzu one :( anyway im gonna slowly savor the rest :p now i need AOKI desserts from tokyo! How to Make White Chocolate in Less Than 5 Minutes. Chuckwagon Apple Fritters | Scarletta Bakes.
Cakes. Cinnamon. Cupcakes. Cookies.