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Get Baked: Whiskey Brown Butter Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies. So about a month ago I came down with the biggest pain-in-the-ass cold, because my company moved into a new building and that building had rogue air conditioning.

Get Baked: Whiskey Brown Butter Walnut Chocolate Chip Cookies

Since I’ve lived in Los Angeles for the last decade and resist wearing anything but Rainbow sandals and t-shirts well into November, I quickly grew ill and ended up huddled under several blankets for a whole day. The fever agitated my anxiety over how unproductive I was being (this is what working in publishing does to your brain, children) and so, obviously, I decided to bake! But not something that made any kind of sense (chicken noodle soup? Bread for toast?) …no, it was gonna be chocolate chip cookies, and shit was gonna get real. I’ve been tweaking my chocolate chip cookie recipe for years, thanks to a formative life in the woods of Northern Arizona making them weekly with my grandma (people who live in the woods do a lot of baking! BUT LO! Ingredients Directions. Country Apple Dumplings Recipe. Easy Pavlova Recipe. Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies Recipe. I was pulling the sad remnant of a vanilla bean from a bag of sugar the other day, and it got me thinking about using whole vanilla beans.

Whole Bean Vanilla Cookies Recipe

The entire pod. I'm sure this isn't a unique concept, but for whatever reason, it's not something I'd ever considered before. I started thinking it through a bit, and landed on the idea of pureeing a whole pod in a food processor to use in something. Perhaps adding some sugar to bulk it out the vanilla bean a bit. After a bit of experimenting, I landed on these little cookies. I made the cookies with a blend of rye and all-purpose flours, but I suspect you could make them using either all-purpose flour, or whole wheat pastry flour without any trouble.

Have you all come across other whole vanilla ideas/recipes? - More Vanilla Recipes - Recipe Monday. You can't help but want to bake something that goes along with the spring weather.

Recipe Monday

This was supposed to be an actual cake, but it's always a good idea to check to see if you have the proper pan you'll need before coming up with a recipe. Oh well, cupcakes are just as adorable. Probably more adorable, right? Ingredients The first thing that you'll actually want to do is measure out 1 cup of cake flour, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Along with the 12 egg whites, put 1 teaspoon cream of tartar and 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract into the mixing bowl. While you're waiting for that to mix up, zest one lemon. Keep mixing the egg whites until they are stiff and can form peaks when you pull out the beaters. Then add in 3/4 cup of white sugar and blend until mixed thoroughly.

Use a spatula to fold the flour and powdered sugar into the egg white mixture. Fold in the zest from the lemon as well. Then you're going to pour this mixture into a greased or lined muffin pan. Banana & Peanut Butter Tart « my not so everyday cooking. Every now and again, a strange idea strikes me.

Banana & Peanut Butter Tart « my not so everyday cooking

Caramel Flavored Whipped Cream Recipe. Dennis Weaver Several years ago we spent a week making banana muffins.

Caramel Flavored Whipped Cream Recipe

We tried recipe after recipe in search of the very best banana muffins. Perfection is in the eye of the beholder but we made a lot of very good muffins. We agreed on one thing—we wanted a lot of banana flavor in our muffins. That took two things: really ripe bananas and added banana flavor. Lemon Squares. Green Scene No-Bake Energy Bites. I was on a mission.

Green Scene No-Bake Energy Bites

I needed more Green Scene No-Bake Energy Bites. I had been to the cozy organic market and deli just the week before. The half dozen Energy Bites I grabbed from the Green Scene deli lasted only minutes in the car on my way home. Banana Scones with Whipped Honey Butter. My love of scones is well-documented.

Banana Scones with Whipped Honey Butter

But one thing has always irked me about my homemade scones; they're not very photogenic. In fact, the lumpiness and uneven shape of my original CWA scone post makes me cringe so much that I keep wanted to redo the photos. But then I made this batch of Banana Scones with Whipped Honey Butter, and I realised that all my scones look pretty lumpy and uneven. Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Pudding.

Okay, so I got a bit excited about jars and handheld pi es my last post.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Pudding

Individual desserts. Lemon-Raspberry Cupcakes Recipe at Epicurious. Photo by James Wojcik yield Makes 12 These gorgeous cupcakes have a sweet surprise inside: They're filled with a dollop of raspberry jam. Half of the cupcakes have a pale yellow lemon glaze; the rest are topped with a pink raspberry-lemon glaze. Preparation Preheat oven to 350°F. Drop 1 rounded tablespoonful batter into each muffin liner. Bake cupcakes until tester inserted halfway into centers comes out clean, about 23 minutes. BROWN SUGAR SOUR CREAM BLUEBERRY COFFEE CAKE.