Sugar Cookie Squares with White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Frosting I just can’t get enough of the sugar cookie squares! Yesterday I was making the original Sugar Cookie Squares with Vanilla Frosting and was thinking of what other combinations would be good with these squares. The best that came to mind, these Sugar Cookie Squares frosted with decadent White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Frosting. They basically melt in your mouth while the combinations of sweet yet tangy cream cheese with natural berry goodness tantalize your taste buds. White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts so I thought this would be a great combination of cookie and cheesecake. Also, this frosting would be incredible on a vanilla, chocolate or angel food cake, just keep in mind it has a slightly runnier consistency than your average butter cream frosting so it not ideal for piping. Sugar Cookie Squares with White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Frosting Ingredients White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Frosting Directions
untitled I come from a British family, and, according to my understanding, there are a few things wrong with this Banoffee Pie recipe. This is absolutely one of my favorite desserts in the whole world (after trifle, of course!) ~~First of all, turning the condensed milk into toffee is way easier than this recipe suggests! All you have to do is put the can straight into a pot of water and bring it to a very gentle simmer. Let it simmer for about 3-4 hours and you will have toffee in a can. Just keep an eye on it to make sure the water doesn't all simmer away. Tiny Gingerbread Houses Earlier I made gingerbread houses meant to perch on the edge of a mug, but I wanted to work on a few more things. First, since these are meant to be eaten I wanted to cut down on the amount of royal icing. I still used it to assemble the houses, but to get sugar decorations to stick to the roofs I decided to use simple syrup. Second, I added a chimney. I think it turned out very cute, though I found that the taller chimneys looked incongruous, so I’ll stick to very short chimneys. Third I decided to see what whole happen if I moved the door shape, the part that fits over the mug, off to one side to allow more of the house to hang on the outside of the mug. Last I wanted to see if it would work out using sugar cookie dough.
untitled Test Kitchen-Approved Author Notes Red velvet is a classic cake, flavored with just a hint of cocoa powder, that has a deep red crumb contrasted with fluffy white icing. The early versions of the cake weren’t quite as technicolor as the ones we see today, but in the 1940s, the Adams Extract company saw an opportunity to sell some food coloring and reimagined the cake with a hefty dose of their product. It was a huge hit. Now, while I love the idea of red velvet, ingesting that much Red 40 isn’t quite as appealing, so for this Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day, I set out to make an all-natural red cake, using red beets.Casual research indicated that the batter needed to be acidic to hold the color, so I pulled out my favorite red velvet recipe from my bakery days. Prep time 1 hour 20 minutes Cook time 20 minutes Makes an 8-inch cake with two layers Ingredients Directions For the cake:Preheat oven to 350° F and position a rack in the center of the oven. Ingredients
Double Fudge Chocolate Cookies Little bit of a mouthful there. But it’s like a cookie on top of another cookie! Yeah. Except these ones down below wanted to try a few different positions. I dunno… they’re all mixed up. In order to solve a common I-want-a-chocolate-CHOCOLATE-cookie-but-he-wants-a-plain-chocolate chip-cookie dilemma that happens like, every single weekend here… I made both. Some of them smashed up against each other while others sat on top of each other but in the end, they all tasted… fantabulous. And then they tasted extra delicious after I spent two hours cleaning out the contents of our bar (take that as you will), after he spent three hours organizing the pantry (that was weird) and after we both needed to severely eat our emotions immediately post-Boardwalk Empire finale. WHAT was that. ??????? Why??? Then I tried to dunk a cookie in milk and failed. I need cookie dunking lessons, a redo on season 2 (thanks HBO), and a salad. Brown Butter Double Fudge Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cookies makes 24 cookies
untitled Though it may still be winter why not get that summery feel we all crave and make a batch of these irresistibly delicious Raspberry Lemonade Cupcakes? These cupcakes will have you imagining you are sitting on a tropical beach somewhere with the sun shinning on your face or on an afternoon picnic with the warm breeze on your face sipping a glass of vibrantly flavored pink lemonade. I used the same method for this frosting as I did with my Strawberry Buttercream Frosting. Another great way to get a bold flavor in a frosting is to use dehydrated fruit and real fruit extracts, I just prefer the flavor of the fresh versus the dried. This recipe is one I will definitely be using again! Such a bright and summer, irresistible cupcake! Servings: 12 Prep Time 30 minutes Cook Time 20 minutes Total Time 50 minutes Cupcakes Simple Syrup 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 1 Tbsp sugar Raspberry Buttercream Frosting Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Nutrition Facts Raspberry Lemonade Cupcakes Amount Per Serving % Daily Value*
Chocolate Chip Cookies Now, I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I swear by. I love it, I think it is incredible, and I haven’t changed my mind about that. However, as much as it pains me to say it, these chocolate chip cookies by Jacques Torres are absolutely, without a doubt, the best chocolate chip cookies that I have ever made or tasted in my entire life. I guess that’s why they call him Mr. Either way, I made these and everyone that tried them went nuts. Edit: For more Jacques Torres deliciousness, check out my Jacques Torres Chocolate Mudslide Cookies! Your ingredients. Whisk together the cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Beat together the butter and sugars, until light and fluffy, at least 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by the vanilla. Add in the flour mixture, very gradually, until just moistened. Fold in your chocolate. Milk is, in fact, an essential component to enjoying these amazing cookies. The Infamous Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
untitled These Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes are soft, fluffy, moist and delicious! There are pieces of chopped strawberry in the cupcake and pureed strawberries in the icing. No artificial flavor! Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes I’ve been wanting to give a makeover to the strawberry cupcakes I did back when I first started the blog. And since I’ve been on a mission recently to make the perfect vanilla cupcake (have you seen the picture of all the cupcakes on instagram?) Well, kind of. My vanilla cupcake will be coming your way soon, but first I just had to share these strawberry cupcakes. It took a few tries to get them just right. I don’t know whether the cake or the icing of this cupcake is better. And yet the flavor of the icing is super strawberry-mazing! And making them is nice and simple. How to Make Fresh Strawberry Cupcakes There are really two main steps. This cupcake batter has a mix of milk and sour cream. The ingredients are all pretty straight-forward. Ingredients Instructions 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Secrets of a Cookie Decorator I’m here to share them with you, in no particular order, because that would take way more time for me to do than is worthwhile when I could be cookie decorating instead! Here are some secrets you may or may not know about cookie decorating, cookie decorators, and me… I’d love to hear your sweet little secrets too if you’d like to share them. Join me in the comment section below. Quick side note – these cookie cookies above, are from a plate I bought at the Hallmark store. More on them in another post soon. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. - an awesome book btw. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. xo, Marian p.s. p.s.s. Related Content