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 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 16th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: internet as recipe book, things i cook | Tags: chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, chocolate peanut butter balls, christmas cooking, no-bake cookies, peanut butter | No Comments »
The beginnings of chocolate peanut butter balls, made from a totally top-secret recipe last weekend. You sort of have to close your eyes and forget what’s in these (which is mostly peanut butter, butter, and sugar), but oh my god are they delicious.
Song of the Entry: Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance!
