In the diverse world of baked goods, cream puffs are precarious little characters. You wouldn’t know it by looking at them. From all outward appearances, they’re beautifully simplistic and deliciously pure: delicate balls of fluffy pastry, filled with sweet and simple cream and topped with a classic chocolate or sprinkling of powdered sugar. With their…
Project NYT: Apple coffee cake
Typically, I’ve never been one to go for reduced-fat or sugar-free kinds of labels, but a few years ago I tried the reduced-fat cinnamon swirl coffee cake at Starbucks and found it to be a pretty delish little baked good. On further consideration, I realized that reduced-fat probably just eliminates a dot of the butter…
Minimal ingredients, maximum results
Have you ever noticed how all of the best baked goods start from the same simple ingredients? It’s pretty amazing when you think about it: By using little more than flour, sugar, butter, eggs and salt in varying amounts, you can create all sorts of wonderful things — and different wonderful things at that. It’s…
Reflecting on a brownie
Brownies are tricky. Amidst all my baking escapades during the past few years, I haven’t been able to perfect a homemade brownie. It’s certainly possible that I’m doing something wrong: mixing things too much, not enough or not in the right order. But for the most part, I blame the box. Boxed brownies that is….
Ode to a cookie: Recipe for a masterpiece
I love cookies (cue Cookie Monster: Om, nom, nom). Mixing, rolling, cutting, baking: I love every step of the process. Oh yes, and the eating. That’s good, too. During the past year especially, I’ve found that baking, particularly baking cookies, works wonders for my stress level (I realized while writing this that my go-to stress…
Waffles: I like ’em pipying hoot from the gleede.
With Christmas less than a week away (which means mountains of baked goods, candy and holiday grub are on the very close horizon), it would probably behoove us to start preparing our tummies for the impending feast. Then again, muscles tend to work better with frequent use, so perhaps the tummy works the same way….
Forget long distance; I’m switching to spritz.
Remember a few days ago when I was writing to Martha with my list of all the kitchen-y, crafty gadgets that she insisted I get tout de suite? Well my Grandma Smith, who holds the cornucopia of cooking/baking gadgetry within the confines of her kitchen, heard of my yen for a cookie press and immediately…
Cookiepalooza 2010
Three years ago, Jared and I started a holiday tradition with our friends Jon and Rebekah that’s wreaked happy holiday havoc on our tiny smidge of a kitchen. For this now-annual Christmastime event, we go all-out cookie-baking crazy, which means we spend an entire evening (and by evening I mean a solid four-hour chunk at…
Favorite things: Cinnamon rolls
Remember a few weeks ago when I talked about how Jared and I have been working toward healthier eating all around? This totally misses the bill. My tastes have definitely changed during the past few years, but there are certain cravings I just can’t seem to kick. I think everyone has that one food (please…
Do you know the muffin (wo)man? Yep, that’s me.
Have you seen the Kashi commercials that show all those rugged, sporty folks in T-shirts and hiking boots scouring the earth for the world’s “best-tasting healthy foods”? Well these cranberry wheat muffins (made with everyone’s fave breakfast food, cracked wheat) turned out to be amazingly yummy little guys. And in the crazy world of muffins…
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