Long time no post… again. Sorry for the lack of posts fellow readers and bloggers! College has done the inevitable–taken my life away. Being invovled in three different student councils while remaining a student has definitely taken a toll on … Continue reading
Throughout my culinary expedition, Thanksgiving has become one of my favorite holidays of the year for the wide array of food served at the dinner table. Now that we’re in the month of November, I get to use Thanksgiving as … Continue reading
Cinnamon rolls are one of the desserts that are sold in refrigerated tins that you can unwrap and bake. The use of refrigerated dough has caused the stigma associated when attempting to make dough. In reality, cinnamon rolls can be made very easily and by topping it off with a cream cheese frosting makes a fancy roll that melts in your mouth.
My friends, brave guinea pigs, have all claimed these as delicious and amazing. One went as far as stating these cinnamon rolls to be better than cookies and cupcakes. This recipe was taken off of Allrecipes.com, a 5 star recipe with over 4000 reviews!
Chocolate chip cookies are known to be the “cookies of America”. With over 50% of the cookies baked at home being chocolate chip cookies, there are hundreds of recipes for chocolate chip cookies each claiming to be the best. In my opinion, there isn’t a single best chocolate chip cookie. Instead, I find chocolate chip cookies to be something that is versatile in nature, allowing for each variation to be delicious in its own way. Furthermore, what might be a delicacy to some, might be utterly disgusting to others. Continue reading
Chocolate macarons*
French macarons are little sandwich cookies commonly confused with coconut macaroons. The coconut desserts, which I am also quite fond of, has an extra “o” in spelling. French macarons are, instead, made with almond flour making them gluten free. These delightful wonders have a filling sandwiched between two cookies that have extremely thin outer crust that almost instantly breaks, and a chewy center. There are varieties such as swiss and japanese macarons which are lighter and denser respectively. For the purpose of this post, I will refer to French macarons as simply macarons.
Macarons are merengue-based cookies, meaning that they are primarily egg whites by volume. In fact, beaten egg whites make up a majority of this cookie along side 3 other simple main ingredients, almond flour, powdered sugar, and casters sugar. Despite the simple ingredient profile, they are known as one of the most difficult cookies to make. With careful execution, however, it is possible to have excellent and consistent results.
Chocolate chip cookie cupcakes were the spotlight of my friend’s birthday party. People raved over the unique decorations, supreme taste, and inventive components. My friends kept asking for more even three days after the party! I’ve also had a handful … Continue reading
I realize that my better than sex chocolate cupcakes are not the simplest recipe around. In fact, I would consider multiple aspects of it as difficult. So in result, I want to dedicate a post towards some of the techniques we covered.
Today we’re going to be talking about the cupcakes that ranked number 2! These are a five part chocolate cupcake, and they are from the cupcake project over here. They have some pretty cool projects and I definitely plan on reblogging from them more often.
So the cupcake that ranked number two contained five different types of chocolate, heres a list for you all!
The result: our featured picture!
Birthdays. Birthdays? Birthdays! Today we’re going to take a quick detour on our series of pasta and focus on the one food item associated with birthdays–cakes! More specifically, let’s focus on mini cupcakes today. The reason why we’re focusing on … Continue reading
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