Chocolate Malted & Toasted-Marshmallow Layer Cake - Semisweetie, A geeky baking and recipe blog Recipe: Sweetapolita's Campfire Delight Total time: 4 hours Ease: Intermediate Unusual ingredients: malted milk powder, whipping cream, marshmallows, marshmallow fluff, unsweetened cocoa powder, coffee Marshmallows. Malt. Heavenly moist chocolate cake. I knew this was going to be a time investment. The cakes themselves were perfect. Toasting the marshmallows was easy in the oven, but when I added them to the mixture of fluff, butter and icing sugar, things got quite a bit messy! The chocolate malted frosting is absolutely delightful. Related Posts:
A Cozy Kitchen » Churro Tots Happy Wednesday, beautiful people.Factoid for you: Getting my car serviced stresses me.To deal, I totally made Churro Tots. Throw in stress eating and calls to dad, and it some how made everything okay. I encourage it!Last week I went to a cookbook release party at Border Grill and they had churros…in tot form! Grab a baking sheet, line it with some paper towels. Recipe adapted from Dorie GreenspanPrint this recipe!
Rainbow Cake | Love and Olive Oil - StumbleUpon For Cake: 2 1/4 cups cake flour (9 ounces) 1 cup whole milk, at room temperature 6 large egg whites (3/4 cup), at room temperature 2 teaspoons almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar (12 1/4 ounces) 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon table salt 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple gel food coloring For Frosting/Filling: 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar 10 large egg whites 2 pounds (8 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into tablespoons, softened 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 pound best-quality white chocolate, melted and cooled Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare your cake pans by first liberally buttering the pans, then line the bottoms with parchment paper rounds. Pour milk, egg whites, and extracts into 2-cup glass measure, and mix with fork until blended. Divide batter evenly between six medium bowls. Let cakes rest in pans for 3 minutes.
Warm Toasted Marshmallow S'more Bars Peanut Butter and Corn Chip No Bake Cookies This is one of those crazy recipes I just had to give a try. My friend Alice shared this super simple no bake cookie recipe with me. Kookie Cookies 1 package (9.75 to 10.5 ounces) corn chips 1 cup light corn syrup 1 cup sugar 1 cup creamy peanut butter Spread corn ships in a greased 15 in x 10 in by 1 in baking pan. In a saucepan over medium heat, bring corn syrup and sugar to a boil, stirring frequently to help dissolve the sugar. I thought a drizzle of melted semi-sweet chocolate chips would be a nice touch. Cool, Break (tear — it’s gooey) into pieces.
VeganYumYum Black pepper and cumin are two things that I can never have enough of. Pickles, on the other hand, I can usually do with a lot less of. Or, you know, none. None’s fine. I was talking to my friend Bill and mentioned my dislike for pickled things. “Do you like vinegar?” Huh. It’s sort of embarrassing to be really into food but dislike things that are wildly popular. My conversation with Bill rattled around in my head for a bit and I realized that he’s probably right. Now, a note on spices. If you want to get back on the fresh spice train, and don’t think your local stores have anything worth investing in, find yourself a quality spice store that takes online orders. It’s good to have fresh cumin, but please please please tell me you are using whole peppercorns, in a grinder. Okay, enough yapping. Pickled CarrotsFor a 1 pint jar Mix together your picking spices and set aside. One pound of carrots is roughly equivalent to 5 or 6 large carrots. Place your jar in the fridge.
The Brownie That Will Change Your Life Let me start off by saying that viewer discretion is advised for today’s post. OK now with the story that preludes possibly the greatest brownie I have ever sunk my teeth in thus far in my life. Last Saturday Mrs. Zesty had a baby shower to attend and she was designated for a dessert/sweet treat for the girls. Last week was a bit of a zoo and I think I forgot about prepping this dessert until Friday afternoon at work. I knew time was tight and I didn’t want to spend all night Friday night to prep a dessert. This recipe, I cannot take any credit for and nor will I try as it is compliments of Nestle Toll House and as you can see from the reviews…. Ingredients 1 pkg. (18.25 oz.) chocolate cake mix1 cup chopped nuts ( Optional )1 cup Evaporated Milk1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted35 (10-oz. pkg.) caramels, unwrapped2 cups (12-oz. pkg.) Method Preheat oven to 350° F.Combine cake mix and nuts in large bowl. Drop remaining batter by heaping teaspoon over caramel mixture. Thanks zesty
Technique 101: Learn Easy Pâte à Choux Dough and Make Beautiful Cream Puffs Once you know how to make this easy Pâte à Choux dough, you can use it to make a number of different things. Pâte à Choux is cream puff pastry and is used to make cream puffs, gougeres, and even beignets. I love it because it is simple, fast and I can make it ahead of time. You can make these beautiful cream puffs and fill them as a dessert with ice cream or whipped cream. You can make them and fill them for lunch with crab or chicken salad. You can add cheese to the dough and make savory little gougeres for appetizers, which I will make for a future post. Don't be intimidated about making these. One of the fun things to do with this recipe is to make a dessert bar. Now let's make some. Cream Puffs/Pâte à Choux Dough for a printable recipe, click here Makes 12 - 13 medium sized cream puffs Ingredients: Instructions: Heat the first four ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium high heat just until the milk starts to boil. Homemade Chocolate Sauce: Homemade Whipped Cream:
Veggie Belly | Vegetarian & Vegan recipes food blog Chocolate Cupcakes with Flaming Strawberries Call me easily amused, but these little torch-topped cupcakes delight me. Besides being a cute novelty item for a party, I think they would add a little drama to the end of a romantic meal. I've been looking for something different to serve for Valentine's dessert, and this is definitely different. For the cake portion, I chose a One Bowl Chocolate Cupcake recipe because 1. it's quick 2. it is easy, and 3. it fits my prerequisite for a light ending on date night. I should say, a light ending provided you don't eat too many. The cakes are just sweet enough, and have a light, fluffy crumb - the perfect vehicle for rich chocolate buttercream. Notes for flaming strawberries:Any alcohol below 80 proof will not ignite well. Shaina made a margarita version of this on Babble Food. Chocolate Cupcakes with Flaming Strawberries Yield: About 20 cupcakes [click to print]Cupcakes: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line muffin tin with cupcake papers and set aside. Hollow the strawberries carefully.
International Incident Party! (Boston Cream Pie Cake Pops) This has a "vintage" feel mostly because I ran low on light! 8) Is anyone else sick of hearing that this or that treat is going to be "the next cupcake"? The sweets I've heard mentioned most are cake pops, French macarons, whoopie pies, and now even regular pies. I mean I know what what people mean when they say it (i.e., "the next big thing"), but please just let each treat have it's own identity! Plus I'm pretty sure actual cupcakes ain't goin' away anytime soon 8). Partly due to my aversion to fads plus just plain lack of interest, I'd neither tasted nor made cake pops until last month. Was this what all the fuss was about? So it's nearly impossible to mention cake pops without mentioning Bakerella. Other than the usual goal of creating cute n' tasty treats, I had several others in mind: to avoid (1) an overly mushy/greasy/sweet filling, (2) flavorless cake, and (3) excessive coating. Fail Pops: before I figured out the best dipping method =p Now for the fun part...the flavor!
Hot Cheesy Crab, Spinach and Artichoke Dip When I was looking for crab recipes I came across the concept of a hot crab dip and since I had some left over crab I decided to try making one. I found a bunch of recipes but none of them felt just right so I took what I liked from each of them and ended up with this one. I don't think you can go wrong with a base of cream cheese and sour cream. Add a bunch of of cheese and it only gets better. Ingredients: 1 tablespoon butter 2 cloves garlic (chopped) 1/4 cup white wine 1 cup baby spinach (packed) 4 ounces cream cheese (room temperature) 1/2 cup sour cream chili sauce to taste salt and pepper to taste 1/4 parmigiano reggiano (grated) 1/2 cup mozzarella (grated) 1/2 cup cheddar (grated) 1 cup artichoke hearts (chopped) 1 cup crab (chopped) 2 green onions (chopped) Directions: 1. Slow Cooker: Implement steps 1-3, mix everything, place it in the slow cooker and cook until the cheese is nice and melted about 1-2 hours on high or 2-4 hours on low.
espresso chocolate chip shortbread cookie recipe Recipe: espresso chocolate chip shortbread What new views through the lens? I went leaf hunting today and found… tall trees leftover snow on the mountains the big kahuna The rest of the sampler from today’s jaunt is on the photo blog. Right, so the title of today’s post should read “to the dogs(‘ sitters)”. espresso to batter mini chocolate chips Of course, I don’t want any hard feelings to be taken out on my girl. everyone likes some dough roll it out I have made one hundred million billion of these cookies to date. measure the slices slap it on a baking sheet and go I made a double batch of these today. this cookie will solve our energy crisis Espresso Chocolate Chip Shortbread[print recipe]from Smitten Kitchen *Note: I didn’t follow all of the instructions in Deb’s version because I am a lazy bum. Dissolve espresso powder in boiling water.