Chocolate Caramel Cookies with Sea Salt Chocolate Caramel Cookies with Sea Salt Happy Birthday to ME! Today is my 28th birthday and I am ready to party:) I have the day off and I plan on enjoying every minute of my special day. My handsome hubs is taking me out to a nice sushi dinner tonight. I am not a big cake fan so for my birthday we are celebrating with COOKIES! These cookies are very chocolaty. The caramel melted throughout the cookies while baking. Make a batch for your weekend Super Bowl bash or whip up a batch for your special Valentine next week…or just make them because they are really good and it is my birthday:) I hope you will all celebrate with me! It is also Nutella Day-yahoo!
How To Make Croissants [Chocolate Croissants, Pumpkin Spice Croissants, and Cinnamon Sugar Croissants] I hope you’re ready to see a billion underexposed photos of the same exact dough over and over and over again. Please say yes, because you will be rewarded with this. This was a… project. To say the least. I have been dying to try homemade croissants for ages, but after mention of them when I made almond joy scones, I could hardly wait. I have a very nostalgic reason for loving croissants: since I was young, each summer my grandma would always pick up a croissant from the Bread Box Bakery in Boyne City. But I also have a superficial reason for loving croissants: It’s Complicated. Too bad they don’t mention that it takes like 14 hours to really make croissants. I’m not about to tell you “oh! Oh… and I made four flavors of croissants: traditional, chocolate, cinnamon sugar and pumpkin spice. Easy enough… it all starts with some yeast and flour. I know you have all of the ingredients in your kitchen, which means you should probably start right now. No. Then you fold it up like a letter. 1. 2.
Banana Cream Cookies This house needs an intervention. We (Mr & Mrs Dessert For Two) are addicted to work. We lack the ability to sit still, relax and take it easy. We did watch a football game or two, but we were up during the commercial breaks working on something. It has got to stop. Luckily, this weekend we’re headed to Chicago for a little getaway. I made these cookies last weekend because I had a craving for a banana cream pie and banana pudding. Banana Cream Cookies Makes 5 cookie sandwiches Ingredients For the Vanilla Wafers: ½ cup flour ½ teaspoon baking powder ⅛ teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened ¼ cup sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 teaspoons heavy cream For the banana cream: ¼ cup cold heavy whipping cream 2 tablespoons powdered sugar 1 small very ripe banana, smashed Instructions Preheat the oven to 350°.
Nutella-Mallow Pillow Pockets When I tell you this, take me very seriously…..run, don’t walk to your nearest grocery store and make these today! I knew I wanted to make a Nutella treat the other day and when this simple idea came to mind I had no idea how crazy good it would be! The pastry with the gooey disappearing marshmallow and nutella make for a treat that you just must try for yourself! Enjoy! Can you handle this line up?! Um….this stuff should be illegal. Ok, easy easy. Take a little fork and crimp those edges, nice and firm. Next, you’ll brush with an egg white wash and sprinkle with sugar, mmmmm! Get a load of this! I sprinkled mine with a little powdered sugar Oooey, gooey and delish! Nutella-Mallow Pillow Pockets 1 package puff pastry, 2 pastry sheets thawed 1 Cup Nutella spread 1 Cup mini marshmallows Egg white wash: 1 egg white whisked with 1 Tablespoon water Powdered sugar for dusting 1. 8 pockets Have a great new week! Other recipes you may enjoy...
Snickers Cookies + Party Punch Recipes #SpookyCelebrations These Snickers Cookies and Halloween Punch recipes were created as part of a sponsored campaign for Collective Bias and their client. Seasonal baking isn’t really my thing. I love looking through the fun and adorable recipes, but I don’t have the patience to bring most of them to life. I can’t even figure out how to frost a cupcake and make it pretty, so I like to stick with cookies. If you’ve been to the store lately, you’ve more than likely noticed that Halloween baking and candy aisles. These Snickers cookies could easily be adapted to use other candy bars. Snickers Cookies Steps Chilling the dough is key in this recipe and guarantees a fluffy, chewy cookie. Snickers Cookies Makes 2 dozen cookies. Ingredients 2⅛ cups all-purpose flour½ teaspoon table salt½ teaspoon baking soda12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) butter, melted and cooled1 cup packed light brown sugar½ cup granulated sugar1 large egg1 large egg yolk2 teaspoons vanilla1 cup crushed Snickers bars Instructions Party Punch Ingredients
Macarons A lot of people get the wrong impression about macarons and avoid making them because they’re supposedly the most difficult thing in the world to make. Truly, they’re not difficult at all. What is difficult is mastering them. But there’s no reason to master macarons on the first try. Each time one of those things happen, you have a chance to learn about what went wrong with your technique if you want to learn. If this is your first time making macarons, read through these posts to familiarize yourself with some common problems and mistakes. Macaron Mythbusters: 10 myths you don’t need to worry about (with my recipe, anyway).Macaron Ten Commandments: 10 important points to remember when macaroning All About Hollows: pointers for honing your macaron technique and minimizing hollow shellsAvoiding Brown Macarons: chances are, it’s not your oven.Macarons Are For Eating: macarons are crazy delicious; don’t forget that in pursuit of perfection! approximately 10 ounces (290g) Swiss buttercream .
Mini M&M's Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Mini M&M’S® Cookies & $250 Visa Gift Card Giveaway Mini M&M’S® Cookies, fun bite size cookies that make a great after school snack! It’s back to school time! I know I will cry like a baby when Caleb is old enough to go to school, but I do look forward to him coming home and telling me about his day. I picture us sitting at the table talking, laughing, working on homework, and enjoying cookies and milk. We have a few years until it’s homework time and back to school for our little pea, but I made Mini M&M’S® Cookies anyways. These Mini M&M’S® Cookies are almost too cute to eat! I used M&M’S MINIS® to make the cookies extra special. I am normally not a cookie dough girl. I rolled the dough into teaspoons and baked the cookies until they were slightly golden brown around the edges. Cookie perfection! And now for some fun news! Mini M&M'S® Cookies Yield: 6 dozen cookiesPrep Time: 15 minutesCook Time: 8 minutes Soft mini chocolate chip cookies with colorful M&M'S MINIS®.
How to make macarons - some tips and tricks For those of you who read this blog regularly, you will know that macarons are one of my obsessions. Some of you may remember a couple of my early attempts (here, here, and here), then the epiphany of the class at Lenôtre in Paris. Following that class, I had a number of successes and I found the recipe to be very similar to Helene’s (of Tartelette blog) and I used a combination of the Lenôtre techniques with Helene’s recipe most of last year, with varying success. Being a Taurean (stubborn) and A-type (a planner) what bugged me about macarons was how unpredictable they were. Until recently. Encouraged by Stella, I tried my hand at these just before the end of my spring break. I followed Stella’s instructions to a T – even down to the timing of the beating of the whites. The next part that is tricky is the macaronage – the folding in of the dry ingredients to the egg whites. And voilà: The “lunch duty” macarons. Enjoyed by all on the first day back at work after the break.
chocolate chip cookie comparison Everyone is always talking about what the best chocolate chip cookie recipe is. Last year, it seemed like everyone was making the Best Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie. A few months ago, Cooks Illustrated’s Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie was all the rage. These days, people are testing out the New York Times recommendation to chill the dough for 36 hours before baking. Until recently, I stayed out of this discussion. But eventually, curiosity got the best of me. Because, let’s face it, just about all chocolate chip cookies are good (and certainly the ones I was making would be), Dave and I decided we would need to do side-by-side comparisons to discern differences between the recipes. I wanted to publish this entry with conclusive results. But I just don’t think it’s going to happen. Regarding the overnight rest – it certainly doesn’t hurt, and I find it pretty convenient actually. My favorite was Alton Brown’s The Chewy. We were also very fond of the New York Times recipe.