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…
Cranberry Upside-Down Muffins
I Heart Cooking Clubs Bread Basket For bread week, I feel I should have made a yeasted-bread but that was not in the cards. While looking through my Gourmet magazines I spotted this cranberry muffin recipe and I was intrigued to make it. 2 cups cranberries, picked over and rinsed 1 1/4 cups sugar 1…
Chocolate Cream Puffs with Mascarpone Filling
Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi For this recipe I managed to get 23 cream puffs using a two teaspoon scoop. I think this worked in my favor as I was serving these for a crowd. I feared I would not have enough filling but I had exactly what I needed. I used dark chocolate…
Cranberry Pecan Crostata
I Heart Cooking Clubs Monthly Featured Ingredient Cranberries! A crostata is an open-faced fruit tart, often with a decorative lattice top. I have not made a crostata before but I have made plenty of tarts. This crostata caught my eye in Ruth Reichl My Kitchen Year and I was glad that cranberries were this month’s…
Sour Cream Bran Muffins
I Heart Cooking Clubs Morning Glories I was a Gourmet Magazine devotee. I kept my magazines for a very long time but I finally got rid of them in one of my moves. I did manage to keep a couple of issues of The Best of Gourmet. Now that we are cooking with Ruth Reichl…
Cranberry Five-Spice Cookies
Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies I host a friendsgiving every year. This year the magic date everyone was free was November 3rd, early in the month. I made three of our baking assignments for this meal. First up are these savory cookies in the cocktail section of Dorie’s Cookies. I had to omit the peanuts…
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