March 2011
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Made with love (monthly baked goods package)
I participated in this thing called Tumblr Eat Up a couple of times, it was a baking share with people through the internet. You’d get somebody address and tumblr blog name and someone different would get yours and you’d mail baked goods to person A, person F sends you one, you’re person H… yadda yadda yadda. I really liked doing it but decided if I’m going to make...
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Baking with Cora and Lena, Part 2: Chocolate Chip...
Weekend with Cora and Lena has closed as I just dropped my niece off with my Dad to bring her back to her home. We had a very fun busy time including an improv show, trip to the Museum of Science, bowling, going out to eat, painting nails and baking! Yesterday we made Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes and not so yummy frosting (sharmeee you were right, it looks like I was making swiss meringue...
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The buttercream disaster (I should have trusted my...
The cupcakes BEFORE we put some gross business on them.
(photo credit to Lena)
Recently I made a buttercream frosting that I enjoyed and when we were making our funfetti cupcakes I somehow forgot about it and started using a different one. Instead of a very simple butter, vanilla and confectionary sugar mixture, this recipe involved granulated sugar, and dissolving it into egg whites over...
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Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes (Baking with Cora and...
This weekend my wonderful niece Lena came and stayed with me in Boston. On her other visits we’ve baked together and it’s been really fun, so among the things I had planned, I promised we would bake again.
It was hard to decide what to do but we settled on Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes to celebrate spring (while it’s been cold this weekend, it’s sure starting to look like...
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Chocolate Chip Butterscotch Cookies
In addition to the lovely thing I went to this morning, where I learned a lot, I have an improv show tonight, so I decided to bake. There is a small possibility that we will have a very thin crowd so I decided to keep my baking simple and make something I’ve made MANY times with one of my favorite cookie recipes.
Ingredients ALL measured out before mixing (with the exception of the...
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Things I learned from the book signing + demo by...
I got a lot out of the 2 hour demo and I’m sure I’ll learn a lot more from the book. But here are a just few things that I took away/learned/new things to think about:
Don’t let baking intimidate you.
Measure everything first. Something I do occasionally because it makes me feel like I’m on a cooking show but that she highly recommends. She also recommends weighing your...
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Flour book signing with Joanne Chang
A couple of weeks ago I was on the website for The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, yaknow.. just looking around because I have been thinking about taking some sort of classes or schooling to enhance my baking and I saw that there was a book signing and demonstration by Joanne Chang of Flour.
Flour is a bakery and cafe that has 3 locations in Boston/Cambridge, makes really great sandwiches,...
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Zucchini Cupcakes Ingredients
I thought I’d share. My nose has been stuffy, so I can’t completely taste them, but I was told they were really good. Although I think things taste better when it’s the end of the school day and you’re tired. Also, my cream cheese frosting is usually a hit.
Ingredients (made about 2 dozen)
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup...
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More on my HealthyCakes + a confession
I was at the store and I was looking at the vegetables and… they weren’t labeled. I didn’t know if I was buying a zucchini or a cucumber and I was too embarrassed to ask anybody. I decided to go with my gut instinct and thankfully I was right. And now I know how to tell the difference.
The recipe called for 1 1/2 cups of zucchini and I decided to puree some of it and...
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(sort of) HealthyCakes for St. Patty's Day
Yesterday I had a long day, and I was cranky and feeling poopy but when I got home at 7:00 pm, I knew that baking would fix my major ‘tude. SoI sat down with 2 of my 3 cupcake books (one a recent gift from my dear friend Susan, who is also a teacher at my school and a fine baker herself).
While it would have been nice to bake something with Bailey’s or some kind of liquor for...
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I had a long day
But I think I will bake now, and then I will be very happy.
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I should have made a King Cake, huh.
Ohwell.
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A great idea: We've got cookie balls, put a glaze...
We thought it was brilliant.
We found a quick recipe for a Maple Glaze that is used for a pound cake, here. I love glazes now. They didn’t really exist to me until I made them for the first time for cupcakes back in January. They’re so easy to make and usually have very few ingredients.
It was great having an extra arm.
So then Michelle poured the maple glaze over the cookie...
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More fragments and more pictures and links to the...
So I over mixed. I made pancake cookies.
A lot of big, round, yummy pancake cookies.
I used this recipe here.
Michelle’s pick, Maple Oatmeal Cookies (sans cranberries and walnuts), can be found here.
A lot of the pictures Jonah took are of the same thing, which at the time I bugged him about but it was actually nice having more to choose from and also not having to think about taking...
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I decided to make a chocolate peanut butter banana cookie I had made before, (sans walnuts) + chocolate chips (SIDENOTE: I realized the recipe is vegan.. well, before the chocolate chips, which is pretty cool) and Michelle decided upon an oatmeal maple cookie. Both recipes were on the computer and while we mostly made one batch at a time, there were a lot of ingredients out and confusion could...
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My apron collection is becoming a collection.
Unintentionally. I mean, how many aprons does a girl really need? It is kind of fun though.
I used to wear this yellow apron I got in Texas all the time while baking. For Christmas I got this green apron and also this red and brown one. (I LOVE the patterns. Actually, I love patterns, period.) And then my Mamma gave me an early Valentine’s present with this ridiculously...
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