Matcha Black Sesame Babka — Fix Feast Flair. Legendary Blueberry Biscuits recipe on Food52.com. Cooking is more fun with friends. Find your friends who are already on Food52, and invite others who aren't to join. Let's GoLearn more Join Our Community Follow amazing home cooks. Sign Up ♥ 274 Save ▴ If you like it, save it! Save and organize all of the stuff you love in one place.
Got it! If you like something… Click the heart, it's called favoriting. Author Notes: In North Carolina, the fast food chain Bojangles has a monopoly on biscuits. Food52 Review: You can't go wrong with a combination of summer's best fruit folded into pillowy biscuit dough. Serves 8 Blueberry Biscuits 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, frozen for about 10 minutes 1/2 cup buttermilk 2 tablespoons heavy cream 3 tablespoons Greek yogurt 1 egg yolk 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup blueberries (frozen are easier to handle) 4 tablespoons granulated sugar Icing This recipe is a Community Pick!
Pandan Coconut Sandwich Cookies. Hiya! Hope everyone had a great weekend, here in Australia we had a long weekend which is why this post is coming a little late. As expected, the last week has been completely nuts with the wedding and then a week spent with my relatives visiting from overseas. I am exhausted, but in a good way. The wedding was amazing, A & I had such a perfect day and night and we were so happy to celebrate with all our closest family and friends. Even with all fingers and toes crossed and my Mum doing an anti-rain dance, it poured the entire day and my dress got a little muddy but we didn't let it affect the day at all.
These are some of the flowers that we brought back from the wedding, our house was full of lovely smelling flowers all week. The cookies are REALLY good, in fact they tasted so good on their own that we polished off half a batch before I made the filling. My one big tip when making these biscuits; make sure you leave the dough to rest for a long time.
Pandan Coconut Sandwich Cookies. Chocolate and Pistachio Cake. Guys, it’s official. I am a homeowner. It’s scary and exciting, but mostly scary. Because truth be told, the house right now is far from perfect. The reality of homeownership is sinking in as I discover hidden corners of mold in the house, broken door knobs, and large gaping holes left over from the previous owner’s various wall hangings. Realistically, I’ve always been more of a realist (ha, see what I did there?). Well, even if I don’t currently know the answer to that question, it’s an answer that doesn’t really matter anyway. What I always do, when I’m stress out and times are unsure. I bake: One of the things I like least about moving is clearing out the kitchen. Staring at the pistachio paste, I realized that it was best to use it in a cake.
Pistachios are one of my favorite nuts. Some baker's notes: Admittedly, pistachio paste is expensive and a bit of a pain to source (though you can find some pretty good brands on Amazon). Chocolate and Pistachio Cake Ingredients Recipe. Spiced Apple Cake. I sometimes wish that my future self could just pop into my present world just to… you know… say hi, and let me know that everything in the future is going along just swimmingly.
That never happens, but maybe I just haven’t given future me enough guidance. With this in mind… here’s a quick letter to future me. Now maybe 48 year old me will get crackin’ on some answers. Slacker. Dear Future Me, Hi. I have a few questions for you. Are you still unreasonably afraid of spiders? Speaking of spouses… do you have one? Do you still buy the cheap mascara? Tell me you still wear a little black dress and heels on occasion. Kids. How do you feel about eggplant? What’s been good? Let me know how we are. I’ll be sitting here with a cup of tea and my Spiced Apple Cake waiting to hear from you. Love, Present Me Quick Blurb of ShamelessnessHi… it’s me, Joy the Baker.
I love this apple cake. Spiced Apple Cake from The Sweet Life Print this Recipe! Sauteed Apples 2 tart apples (about 1 pound) 2 Tablespoons butter. Bake for Happy Kids: Japanese Honey Castella Cake. "Ah-ah-ah-choo! " Pardon me. I think I have caught the latest "Castella-cake flu bugs" too :p I can't stop admiring how Biren from Roti and Rice and Ann from Anncoo Journal bake their Castella cakes. Biren is always clever and detailed with her baking and I enjoy reading all her detailed explanations of the origins and procedures of her baked goods. Ann is always brilliant and perfect with all her baking and her Castella cake is a spot-on! A few years back before I started blogging, I always remember a particular Castella cake post that had enchanted me for years!
Until recently, I saw how Cheah from No-Frills Recipes did all her interesting research to bake her Castella cake and how Sonia from Nasi Lemak Lover finally succeed baking her Castella cake after five attempts. The Castella cake recipe that I using is from Roti and Rice. All mainly because Biren's recipe doesn't contain any cake stabiliser. (with my modification in blue in order to bake the cake in 11 cm x 21 cm loaf pan) Hot cross custard tart. Skippy Peanut Butter Cookies. I love peanut butter. Like really, really love. When we were little, there was only one brand available, Skippy. Now there are many varieties sold but my favorite is still Skippy. Naturally, cookies made with Skippy peanut butter are hugely popular too.
Even those not made with Skippy are still called Skippy peanut butter cookies. Unlike for toasts, cookies made from Skippy are best when the smooth and creamy peanut butter is used. Prepare the ingredients : flour, oil, peanut butter, confectioner’s sugar and salt. Combine everything in a mixing bowl. Beat them using paddle attachment for a couple of minutes. Shape them into small tiny little balls, roughly about 1/2 – 1 teaspoon of dough.
Make round indentation in the middle of the cookie using round chopsticks. Pretty little thing, aren’t they? Brush egg wash on each cookie. Bake for 15 minutes. Pineapple Tarts. January 29, 2011 Pineapple Tarts What is Chinese New Year without pineapple tart? This super auspicious cookies is a must in every household. And I don’t want to be boring, going on and on about how pineapple tart is the one cookies that is the most sought after cookies during this this time of the year. First thing first, our pineapple tarts are not really “tarts”, they are rolled cookies with pineapple fillings. We, in Indochine Kitchen, roll them up into logs and cut them up nicely before brushing them with egg wash. I would like to state that I have cooked up 20 pineapples to make the jam, burnt 4 batches of cookies, baked 5 batches of literally inedible hard and ugly tarts, and one super sour batch – when I mistaken baking soda to cornflour.
Grab your seat, hold your mouse, and here it comes. Peel pineapples and cut them up into medium-sized pieces. Puree pineapples in a blender. Combine puree, sugar, cloves and cinnamon in a thick pan and cook over low heat, until it thickens. Portuguese Egg Tarts Recipe. Big crumb coffee cake. It took me almost eight months to make this recipe. It took less than two seconds to regret waiting that long. Let this serve as a warning–it doesn’t have to happen to you.
This is the Big Crumb Coffee Cake of my dreams, and oh, I have dreamed about this for a very long time–like, 15 years, I’m afraid to say. It dates back to the bakery where I worked in high school that used to fill a sheet tray with gorgeous, cinnamon and brown-sugar clustered buttery crumbs, spread a thin layer of cake doughnut batter over it and, once baked, flip it out onto a tray where it was showered with an avalanche of powdered sugar. The proportions were perfect every time: one-third cake to two-thirds of the kind of rubble that were impossible to walk by without pulling off a piece of crater-leaving telltale sign. I haven’t found an acceptable substitution since, and please do not even waste my time with these so-called excuses for crumb coffee cakes from the Seinfeld-hoarding Drakes to Entenmann’s. 1. 2. 3. French Apple Cake. Custard, cake and apples all come together into one spectacular dessert in this French Apple Cake. The recipe was featured in a recent issue of Cook’s Illustrated (Sept/Oct 2012).
Often, the test kitchen remakes recipes that I am already familiar with, looking for a better way to approach them. This time, I hadn’t heard of this particular kind of cake before, but it sounded too good to resist and I gave it a try as soon as I had a chance. The cake is rich, eggy and custardy, with 1 1/2 pounds of thinly sliced apples packed into it. On top of that custardy layer is a thin layer of tender, fluffy cake. The apples for this cake are cut into very small pieces that are cooked in the microwave prior to being incorporated into the cake batter.
After my own testing, baking the cake several times, I found that I had a few changes over the test kitchen’s version of the recipe. Preheat oven to 350F. Baking for Hospice: Matcha Green Tea Shortbread. This was my second lot of baking for the All About Dads round for Baking for Hospice. My dad absolutely LOVED shortbread. I could never understand why. I mean, I like shortbread: you can't really beat it for its buttery crumbly goodness but it was never my first choice out of those Assorted Biscuits tins we used to always get for Christmas from relos.
I'm all about the glamour cookies - the chocolate coated ones, the choc chippies, the ones with the creamy filling, the malt ones. But there was no other cookie as far as my Dad was concerned. So seeing as the theme was All About Dads, I just had to bake shortbread. I used the Matcha Sables recipe from Okashi Treats by Keiko Ishida that I found on the beautiful Evan's Kitchen Ramblings blog, which a number of blogs have raved about. The recipe was, well, easy peasey japanesey. Matcha powder is pretty expensive, around NZ$8 for a tiny wee tub and I used the whole cannister in this recipe. Matcha Green Tea Shortbread 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.