Posted: January 1st, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: internet as recipe book, things i bake | Tags: baking, candy canes, chocolate, cookies, extreme close-up, macro photos, peppermint, peppermint chocolate shortbread, shortbread | No Comments »
Thanks for bearing with me over the short, totally unplanned (lazy) break I took from blogging when I went back to visit my parents over the holidays – don’t worry, I didn’t get much crafting done while I was there, anyway.
To start off the new year, a new picture of some new (to me) cookies – Peppermint Chocolate Cookies, discovered at penniesonaplatter via foodgawker. These were delicious – although I didn’t realize until after I’d baked them and tried one, they really are peppermint chocolate shortbread. Still. Wonderfully pretty to look at, and a surprising amount of fun to bake.
Song of the Entry: Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes
Posted: December 10th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: internet as recipe book, things i bake | Tags: baking, box, chocolate, chocolate-espresso cookies, christmas, cookies, delicious, festive, inside out cookies, secret santa, white chocolate chips, wrapping | No Comments »
Cookies I baked for a my Secret Pal in the holiday gift exchange at school. More of these cookies, but with white chocolate chips inside instead of semisweet – I think I may need to take a break on them for a while, or I’m going to start to get sick of eating them!
Song of the Entry: The Beach Boys – Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Posted: December 8th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: internet as recipe book, things i bake | Tags: baking, crumble, dessert, fruit, maple syrup, pear cobbler, pears | No Comments »
Every so often, I go to the store and buy pears – which are rock hard and unripe, as food in the store tends to be. And I put them in a bag and leave them on top of the fridge or in the cupboard to ripen, and they get perfectly ripe riight about the time I forget that I bought pears a few days ago, and then I’m left with more pears than I could reasonably eat in a single sitting, all just on the cusp of going bad
The solution, obviously, is “bake them into something.” Because everyone knows, cooking food that’s almost over-the-hill is like hitting the reset button on its expiry date. (I. . .am kidding. Mostly.)
Anyway, I made mine into a half-recipe of this pear cobbler. It is delicious – a lot like apple crisp, but a little bit sweeter because of the different fruit. But then again, the recipe also calls for maple syrup. What doesn’t become delicious when you add that?
Song of the Entry: Dean Martin – Let It Snow!
