Every time I went to pipe, I coughed and frosting went everywhere. End result, very sloppy cookies. Part of it too is the frosting I use. Royal icing is great for decorating cookies. Unfortunately, I don't like how it tastes. It's like wedding cake....fondant is pretty but butter cream is yummy. I'll take yummy over pretty any day. This is a great tasting cookie. These ones tend to stay a little soft so they are sometimes hard to decorate due to breakage. This is a short post since I am pretty wiped out and WAY under the weather. But here is cookie # 3 for my cookie exchange. Sadly, the cookies were really made to cheer my dog up after her surgery....she is obsessed with sugar cookies, but they work great for Christmas cookies too. :) Sugar Cookie Dough 1 1/4 cups unsalted butter, room temperature 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 egg 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/2 tsp cream of tarter 3 cups flour pinch of salt Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease a sheet pan well and set … [Read more...]
Snow Day
It almost always seemed to happen when I was at school. I would be sitting there learning about who knows what and out of the corner of my eye, there through the window, little tiny flakes of snow would start to fall. Most of the smart teachers knew it was just best to take us outside for a bit because we were pretty much distracted from that point on. I too was distracted but for an entirely different reason. The first snow meant that my mom was at home feverishly baking....and baking with yeast! That was exciting to me because it was the only time of the year that she did. I knew she was making dough nuts, raisin bread, fried won-tons sprinkled with powdered sugar(I know they have no yeast) and most importantly, she was making orange rolls. Oh how I loved them so. It was the only time of the year we got them so it was a big deal to me. The bus ride home on the first day of snow was torture. I often found myself screaming in my head "get off the bus, get off the bus" to all the kids … [Read more...]
It’s here….100 posts.
It's hard for me to imagine getting to this point. I remember seeing a food blog(sadly I don't remember who's), I dragged my poor hubby(the computer nerd) out to my computer, pointed to the screen and said, "I want to do that." And so it began....badly. I wrote the first couple of days and that was about it. I wasn't inspired, I had no camera and I had no direction. I went out and got a camera, the cheapest one I could find($100) that I liked. I still lack direction but the overall them for the most part is to take food(mostly baked goods) and make it accessible to the average baker. Honestly, I could do many more complicated things, I have the schooling, and though it is beautiful(truly works of art) I know that none of my friends would ever go out and make it. What good does that do me if my food is pretty but only a few could go and replicate it. I want to inspire people to go to their kitchen and bake! I realize from time to time I do make some stuff that people are not going to go … [Read more...]
Cookie Exchange #2
Our second cookie featured in my cookie exchange is called a Coconut Pecan Cookie, but it is really close to being a German Chocolate Chip cookie in my opinion. Let me start off by saying that this cookie is sweet, and for me to say that is saying a lot. I could definitely only eat one. Also note, do not pile on the frosting so high, I only did it for the picture....you would go into complete sugar shock if you made them to look like the picture. What attracted me to making these cookies was the frosting, very similar to the frosting used make German Chocolate Cake. The frosting calls for evaporated milk, only when I poured mine into the pan it was brownish black....hmmmm, that is one funky cow producing that. So I had to use condensed milk, which was fine because in my short bakery stint, our German Chocolate cakes used condensed milk in the frosting. If you go that route you are going to want to not add the sugar to the frosting. It's a two part cookie: frosting and cookie. The … [Read more...]
