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Super Chocolatey Chocolate Cake Recipe. March 6, 2011 Super Chocolatey Chocolate Cake Ingredients for the cake: 2 cups sugar1 1/2 cups cake flour1/2 tsp salt3/4 tsp baking soda1 cup coffee, really hot4 oz unsweetened baking chocolate, finely chopped2 eggs, at room temperature1/2 cup vegetable oil1/2 cup sour cream, at room temperature1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract Ingredients for the frosting: 1 cup heavy cream1 stick unsalted butter1/3 cup sugar1/4 tsp salt1 lb (16 oz) semisweet chocolate chip morsels1/4 cup coffee1 tsp vanilla extract Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

Super Chocolatey Chocolate Cake Recipe

Once the butter melts pour in the chocolate chips and turn the heat down to low while stirring constantly. After the mixture is relatively smooth add in the 1/4 cup of coffee and vanilla extract. Transfer this mixture to a bowl to cool for about 1-2 hours at room temperature. Now for the cake. Chop up that chocolate as fine as you can get it and then in a bowl pour the 1 cup of really hot coffee over top of it to melt it. Oh does that smell great! Oh man! Christmas Tree Bread. The Brownie Project. All Recipes. I’m kinda into herbs. ‘Tis true. I am quite fond of almost all of them. Fresh herbs bring so much to both dishes and drinks (basil lemonade – swoon). I grow as many varieties as I can during the spring and summer and soon enough I’ll have them coming out of my ears.

I will have too much to keep up with even as much as I cook. Read more I’m almost hesitant to say this but I believe winter is on it’s way out. (whispering) Hi my name is Paula and I am a coffee snob. One of my favorite flavor combinations in the world is tomatoes, fresh basil and mozzarella cheese. Go ahead and get a pencil and paper ready to jot down this ingredient list because you are going to want to make this.

Looking for a baking mix that you can use to make pancakes, waffles, muffins, biscuits and more with? It’s blood orange season and I’m jumping up and down shaking my jazz hands with excitement. I’m so in love with the steam assist technology feature on my KitchenAid range. This post brought to you by Starbucks. The best new recipes from top food sites. Christmas Candy Recipes: Easy Candy Recipes - Martha Stewart. Pie crust 102: all butter, really flaky pie dough. I don’t believe in perfection, in life or in the kitchen.

pie crust 102: all butter, really flaky pie dough

At best, everything we do is a work in progress that gets a tad closer each time we nudge and tweak it. Case in point, last year’s Pie Crust 101 tutorial: My goal was to convince dough-phobes that they needn’t fear the crust by showing how I made mine in five minutes flat, or seriously, way less time than one would spend buying one. My goodness, especially with the lines in the grocery stores this week, right? Of course in the 12 months since, I’ve probably made about 12 additional doughs and I swear, every single time I think of something that wasn’t in that post and am certain you’ve been robbed. So, without further ado, here is Pie Crust 102: A few extra tips and adjustments. 1. 2. [Also, for those of us lacking dishwashers, the food processor alone is five parts/five dishes (Yes, I count. 3. 4. 5.

Pie crust 103: rolling and crimping. [Previous episodes: Pie Crust 101 & Pie Crust 102] As you wish, my friends. So, when we left off, you had all realized how much fun and easy it was to make pie dough at home, in no time flat while dirtying less than ten dishes. I suspect that each and every one of you ran to your fridge to pull out the ingredients and ten minutes later had your doughs neatly chilling back inside them. And now, all that it is left is getting those babies rolled out and filled with pumpkin or apple or cherries or lemon or … gah, I just hope you share with me. There are only three things to remember when rolling out dough, and one you already know: cold. Start by getting your stuff out: You’ll want a small dish of flour (or a shaker, if you have one), a rolling pin, your pie dough that has been chilling for an hour or two, but preferably longer, your pie pan and some sort of bench scraper or knife.

Flour the heck out of your surface, unwrap the dough and put it in the middle and flour that too. Whoops!