So it was hot on Saturday and my husband and I decided that it was best that we head out to find someplace with air conditioning. We chose Barnes and Noble since you can walk around for hours there. Every time we go I get to pick out one cookbook. I must limit myself or else who knows how much bigger my now 200 and something collection would be. After much scrutiny and going back and forth I chose Gale Gand's Just A Bite(I am a huge fan of the mini food movement). I fell in love with the photo on the cover of what looked like a chocolate cake covered in caramel and some sort of nut. I skimmed though it that night not really paying any attention to the ingredients. So when I went to make the cake today, bad me did not have vegetable oil. I'm not really a fan of cakes that use vegetable oil, so right away I was a little disappointed in the book. But I was still inspired by the photo and so I used what I had. I decided just to make a sour cream based chocolate cake(my no fail recipe) and … [Read more...]
44 Dalmations
I'm always supportive of a recipe that uses ¾ of a pound of butter. So when I ran across these Chocolate Dalmatians I was all over it. Now these are not the left over by product of Cruella de Ville, but wonderful shortbread type cookies spotted with mini chocolate chips. Though I did not get 101 of them, I did manage to muster up 44. Mine did not spread out much, unlike the photo in the book. I also made the executive decision to use the entire bag of chocolate chips than just 8 ounces. Chocolate Dalmatians 4 ounces of white chocolate, chopped into ¼ inch pieces ¾ pound unsalted butter, cut into 1 ounce pieces 1 cup granulated sugar 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 4 cups all-purpose flour ½ tsp salt 8 ounces semisweet chocolate mini-morsels( I used all 12oz that came in the bag) Preheat the oven to 350F. Melt chocolate in a double boiler over medium heat. Use a rubber spatula to stir the chocolate until completely smooth, about 2 minutes. Place the butter and … [Read more...]
