Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi I took my fellow baker’s suggestions when making this tart. I made the tart dough and coconut filling the day before then baked and filled the tart the next day. It was quite easy to assemble just need time to chill the tart for four hours. As Dorie mentions,…
Author: Diane Zwang
Coffee-Cardamom Cookies
Coffee is serious business in our house. My husband is obsessed with a good cup of coffee. We buy whole beans, have a bean grinder and several coffee makers. The latest acquisition is a Capresso coffee maker, I get espressos for breakfast every weekend:) I voted for these cookies for my coffee loving husband. Wow,…
Saint-Pierre Poppy Seed Cake
Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi I was glad our first recipe for the year for Baking Chez Moi was an easy one. This loaf cake came together with minimal fuss. You really need to love poppy seeds for this one, it packs a punch of poppy seed crunch. This is also a rich cake…
Fruit and Four-Grain Biscotti
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Happy New Year! Starting off 2019 with a healthy-ish biscotti made with whole wheat flour, wheat germ, rolled oats, kasha and flax seeds. In the spirit of using what I have on hand I put dried apricots and raisins in my biscotti. I also omitted the kasha since I did…
Christmas-Spiced Honey Dainties
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Honey dainties or melomakarona are a Greek cookie. This is a new cookie for me, I have not heard of these before or tasted one. Since many of my fellow bakers had made these already, I reviewed the comments to gleam any good advice. I was in the holiday spirit…
The Cake That Cures Everything
I Heart Cooking Clubs Monthly Featured Dish Cake From Ruth Reichl’s My Kitchen Year. I have made this cake twice now. Once for an employee’s birthday at work and once for a family celebration. It has been a hit both times. I think this may be my new go-to chocolate cake recipe. This cake lived…
Speculoos
Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi I have made Dorie’s speculoos cookies before from Around My French Table and the reviews were great. I was looking forward to trying this recipe. The difference with this recipe is the technique, this dough is rolled into logs and then sliced and baked. My first attempt did not…
Double-Ginger Crumb Cookies
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies Our latest adventure from Dorie’s Cookies, double-ginger crumb cookies, involve do-almost-anything vanilla cookie dough. My notes from that cookie dough state “dough is soft and hard to work with”, hum trouble ahead? Also, given my recent ginger fiasco with gataeu basque, I was hesitant to revisit this flavor. My fears…
Gateau Basque Fantasie
Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi When I told my husband about this recipe he joked, “you can’t mix apples and oranges”, well yes you can. I picked this recipe since my husband’s favorite recipe from Around My French Table is Gateau Basque. The crust, a little tricky to work with, is very forgiving and…
Sweet Potato and Marshmallow Pie Bars
Tuesdays with Dorie Out of the three desserts I have made this month for Tuesdays with Dorie this was by far my favorite. I did not grow up eating sweet potato pie so this was my first taste and I loved it. The base which is a little like Dorie’s sweet tart dough baked up…
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