Cooking
Forgive me, friends - I'm totally out of the loop with the whole writing posts thing, after these couple of weeks of intense studying. So I'll ease myself in slowly with a little bit of cake - shall we?;-)
Horchata Cupcakes from Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit
Yeah, right. This doesn't really look like a cupcake, does it? No. This was (one of the) wedding cake(s) I made for one of my best friends wedding, this past April. She wanted comfy, homemade cakes, and boy, did she get 'em.
I've also made the horchata cupcakes as cupcakes, and they are fantastic, regardless of their shape. The beauty of them is that they keep fantastically well - I had one of the cupcakes a coupe days after I made them and they stay remarkably fresh and moist. Loved that.
I had no idea what horchata was, when I first saw the recipe, but seeing almonds are my favorite nuts of them all, I figured I had to try it. Making the horchata can get pretty tedious, but the recipe Cheryl provides makes enough for two batches, and it freezes well. And you should freeze it as fast as possible - I found out the hard way that it turns sour pretty fast, otherwise. The rest of the recipe is, as always with her recipes, pretty straightforward - it uses egg whites only and that probably adds to the lightness of the (cup)cake.
Yes, I probably won't stop anytime soon praising Cheryl's work - she really does make remarkable cupcakes!
Gâteau au Yaourt from Foodbeam
One day near Easter I found myself in a house with NO BUTTER at all - the HORROR!! And as I was having guests over the next day, I really was in a bit of a pickle - I couldn't possibly make lunch and not serve dessert! Luckily, to my rescue: Fanny of Foodbeam fame. She had just posted a variation of the kind of cake every little girl and boy in France apparently know how to make: Gâteau au yaourt. Hers was a take on it with grapefruit, but as there was none of that in the house either, I had to do a version of my own. In the back of one of my kitchen drawers was half a log of marzipan. Ta-dah! Marzipan-yoghurt cake!
The cake is ridicously easy to make and you can vary it in any which way you'd like to. A couple weeks later I used the exact same recipe, making a banana cake with a lavish topping of chocolate frosting - mmm-mmm-MMM! The recipe has been permanently inked into my personal recipe filer, and I hope I never loose it! A standby recipe that can cover all your needs - you need this, I'm telling you.
Marzipan Cake with Strawberries & Cream from Nami-Nami
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Cooking
Dinning Baking with the Bloggers - June 25th. 2007
Forgive me, friends - I'm totally out of the loop with the whole writing posts thing, after these couple of weeks of intense studying. So I'll ease myself in slowly with a little bit of cake - shall we?;-)
Horchata Cupcakes from Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit
I've also made the horchata cupcakes as cupcakes, and they are fantastic, regardless of their shape. The beauty of them is that they keep fantastically well - I had one of the cupcakes a coupe days after I made them and they stay remarkably fresh and moist. Loved that.
I had no idea what horchata was, when I first saw the recipe, but seeing almonds are my favorite nuts of them all, I figured I had to try it. Making the horchata can get pretty tedious, but the recipe Cheryl provides makes enough for two batches, and it freezes well. And you should freeze it as fast as possible - I found out the hard way that it turns sour pretty fast, otherwise. The rest of the recipe is, as always with her recipes, pretty straightforward - it uses egg whites only and that probably adds to the lightness of the (cup)cake.
Yes, I probably won't stop anytime soon praising Cheryl's work - she really does make remarkable cupcakes!
Gâteau au Yaourt from Foodbeam
One day near Easter I found myself in a house with NO BUTTER at all - the HORROR!! And as I was having guests over the next day, I really was in a bit of a pickle - I couldn't possibly make lunch and not serve dessert! Luckily, to my rescue: Fanny of Foodbeam fame. She had just posted a variation of the kind of cake every little girl and boy in France apparently know how to make: Gâteau au yaourt. Hers was a take on it with grapefruit, but as there was none of that in the house either, I had to do a version of my own. In the back of one of my kitchen drawers was half a log of marzipan. Ta-dah! Marzipan-yoghurt cake!
The cake is ridicously easy to make and you can vary it in any which way you'd like to. A couple weeks later I used the exact same recipe, making a banana cake with a lavish topping of chocolate frosting - mmm-mmm-MMM! The recipe has been permanently inked into my personal recipe filer, and I hope I never loose it! A standby recipe that can cover all your needs - you need this, I'm telling you.
Marzipan Cake with Strawberries & Cream from Nami-Nami
Last, but definitely not least - and this is kind of a cheat - Pille of Nami-Nami's Marzipan Strawberry Cake. I had the good fortune to hook up with Pille when she was in Denmark a couple months ago, and her's is a blog I make sure to check on every day. Why is it a cheat, you ask? Well, usually on DwB with three, I feature bloggers I've already DwB'ed - and I haven't with Nami-Nami. But you see, this recipe is too good for me to hold onto until I try more of Pille's recipes - and it is, ahem, called DINNING with the bloggers, not baking, in all fairness - and I think I need to try to stick to that!
And you need to make this TODAY, rather than tomorrow, and with the best strawberries you can find, 'cause the cake deserves it. I saw the recipe Friday, went strawberry picking Saturday and made it Sunday. No use wasting time, is there?
It is, obviously, a cake with marzipan in it, but unlike the marzipan-endorsed version of the yoghurt cake above, which is more dense, this is somehow light and sligtly meringue-like - and paired with the tart-sweet strawberries and soft, billowy whipped cream, it's a perfect treat on a summer's day. I made it for Martins birthday yesterday and it disapperead faster than you can say "Hurrah!" It's the kind of cake people start out with "just a small slice, please" and then come back for more afterwards. Awesome. Martin even liked it, and you know how he's all "if there's no chocolate, it ain't cake" - if that isn't a bit of a recommendation, I don't know what is! Oh, and please, please, whip the cream by hand - I did mine in the Kitchen Aid, which I never usually do, and it just wasn't as soft and sweet as when you do it by hand. I love my KA, but with whipped cream, there's nothing like a little upper arm workout for making the perfect kind, in my opinion.
I sliced the cake in half and made an extra layer of strawberries and cream in the middle. And was out of pistachios, so we had to do without, although I think the crunchy texture contrast would be nice. Either way - strawberries? cream? marzipan? It could not NOT be good!Thanks Pille!:)
Now I need to go check what other recipes I have to pilfer from my BlogLines backlog from the last couple weeks...
And you need to make this TODAY, rather than tomorrow, and with the best strawberries you can find, 'cause the cake deserves it. I saw the recipe Friday, went strawberry picking Saturday and made it Sunday. No use wasting time, is there?
It is, obviously, a cake with marzipan in it, but unlike the marzipan-endorsed version of the yoghurt cake above, which is more dense, this is somehow light and sligtly meringue-like - and paired with the tart-sweet strawberries and soft, billowy whipped cream, it's a perfect treat on a summer's day. I made it for Martins birthday yesterday and it disapperead faster than you can say "Hurrah!" It's the kind of cake people start out with "just a small slice, please" and then come back for more afterwards. Awesome. Martin even liked it, and you know how he's all "if there's no chocolate, it ain't cake" - if that isn't a bit of a recommendation, I don't know what is! Oh, and please, please, whip the cream by hand - I did mine in the Kitchen Aid, which I never usually do, and it just wasn't as soft and sweet as when you do it by hand. I love my KA, but with whipped cream, there's nothing like a little upper arm workout for making the perfect kind, in my opinion.
I sliced the cake in half and made an extra layer of strawberries and cream in the middle. And was out of pistachios, so we had to do without, although I think the crunchy texture contrast would be nice. Either way - strawberries? cream? marzipan? It could not NOT be good!Thanks Pille!:)
Now I need to go check what other recipes I have to pilfer from my BlogLines backlog from the last couple weeks...
- Apologies With Dulce De Leche-filled Brownies & Cupcakes
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I missed yesterdays NaBloPoMo. Actually, I missed Friday, but the post I put up...
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- On The Ninth Day Of Christmas: A Package Arrives
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Good things come in brown packages. But what? You will have to come back tomorrow...
- Chocolate. A Girl's Best Friend
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Even though I tried to NOT have it this Valentine-y way, it seems there is no way around it - these three all have love, love, love written all over them - so feel free to make any of these as a treat for your loved one - they come with my warmest recommendations!...