Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
20170620 cupcakes Made cupcakes for the first time by myself. Used strawberry box mix. It does taste better with butter and milk. Err on the side of undercooking it — no one likes overbaked cake. Check the cake in less time than the box says. Marscapone tastes good, but it does not make for good […]
Made brownies largely following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10549/best-brownies/ Best Brownies Prep 25 m Cook 35 m Ready In 1 h Recipe By:Angie “These brownies always turn out!” Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1 cup white sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking […]
Made pizza today – comparing Fleischmann’s yeast vs active dry yeast, and papa murphy cheese vs kraft cheese. I didn’t like the fleishmann’s pizza yeast that much, but it indeed, did make a decent looking crust in a very short period of time. I still feel like the wolfgang puck’s pizza dough produced a chewier, […]
Made meat pie (ground beef and potatoes) pie largely following this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/76296/meat-pie/ Ingredients 1 medium potato, peeled and cubed 1/2 pound ground beef 1/2 pound ground pork 1/3 clove garlic, chopped 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/4 cup water 1/2 teaspoon mustard powder 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 teaspoon salt […]
puff pastry tart – looks pretty, tastes greasy, in mini-muffin tin. homemade crust tart in muffin tin – tastes good. Made egg custard largely following this recipe: http://thewoksoflife.com/2014/07/hong-kong-egg-tarts/ Hong Kong Egg Tarts Prep Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes Cook Time: 25 minutes Total Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes Yield: 20-24 tarts Ingredients 200g all purpose flour […]
Made raspberry scones largely following this recipe: Raspberry Scone: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in middle of oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, bakingpowder, baking soda and salt. Cut the butter into small pieces and blend into the […]
Short of getting organic ingredients, I pretty much followed this recipe to the letter (including bake time and not letting it rest overnight); Lactation Cookies. Lactation Cookies YIELD: MAKES ABOUT 20 TO 22 COOKIES, DEPENDING ON YOUR SCOOP TOTAL TIME: 45 MINTUES ingredients: 3 cups old-fashioned rolled oats 1 1/2 cups unbleached organic all-purpose flour 5 tablespoons […]
20150416 Made chocolate chip cookies following the recipe at the bottom. As usual, letting it rest for at least 24 hours lends towards a deeper flavored cookie. Learned something today when I tried to bake with different pans. The large aluminum pans took longer to heat up, and took around 14-16 minutes to cook. The […]
20141119 snickerdoodles made snickerdoodles following this recipe: a great recipe with good annotations about flour used, how to measure salt properly, etc. Another thing I found helpful was that the shape of the cookie dough as it’s placed on the baking sheet matters — a perfectly round ball will yield a perfectly round cookie. A […]
Made chocolate sugar cookies and vanilla sugar cookies following these recipes: Chocolate Sugar Cookies Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 cup cocoa powder 2 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup granulated sugar for rolling Watch How This Expert […]