Posted: January 25th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: internet as recipe book, things i bake | Tags: baking, banana, banana-cardamom cupcakes with chocolate buttercream, buttercream, cardamom, chocolate, cupcakes, delicious, desserts, icing | 2 Comments »
Cupcakes!
Banana-Cardamom Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, if we’re being fancy and descriptive about it. And oh my god, are they good. The cupcakes themselves are from the recipe here, found via foodgawker. They’re not what I’m used to making – the batter was really firm and almost cookie-dough-ish, as opposed to the more liquid cupcake batter I’ve made with other recipes in the past. It turned out wonderfully, though, and I have it on good authority from several people that the cupcakes are delicious.
The frosting is – well, we’ll call it chocolate buttercream, it’s sort of “the best I could do icing-wise with what I had in my kitchen,” but it’s made of cocoa and butter and icing sugar in proportions that worked out okay.
Song of the Entry: Plain White T’s – Big Bad World
Posted: January 23rd, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: internet as recipe book, things i bake | Tags: baking, banana, cupcakes, dessert, food in progress, surprises | No Comments »
I’ve been in a bit of a baking mood lately, because I have so many exams this week, and I started these. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what they are, but I’ll give you a hint – they made my apartment smell amazing.
Song of the Entry: Bowling For Soup – Girl All The Bad Guys Want
Posted: January 17th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: things i cook | Tags: chicken, close-up, cooking, dinner, food photography, fresh herbs, macro, mushrooms, recipes, thyme | No Comments »
Garlic and mushrooms and fresh thyme, in close-up. This is a progress shot from getting the ingredients together for dinner a few nights ago – chicken and mushrooms and wine, baked in tin foil, from Happy Days With the Naked Chef. This is one of the first cookbooks I own that wasn’t given to me by my mother or her friends (to ensure that I wouldn’t starve when I started living on my own), so it’s kind of a big deal.
Song of the Entry: Ben Lee – So Hungry
