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…

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…

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 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…

Devil’s Food Wafflets

Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies We love waffles, mostly for breakfast and they are only yeast-raised waffles, light and crisp. We own a VillaWare waffle maker which is considered an essential gadget in our house. My husband and I both cook and bake but we have divided duties in the kitchen, waffles come under my…

The Paris Cheesecake

Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi We love Dorie’s cheesecakes and this recipe was no exception. Dubbed the Paris Cheesecake due to the addition of certain ingredients. Traditional New York cheesecake is made with a graham cracker crust, this cheesecake is made with speculoos and almond flour. Dorie also suggested using LU Cinnamon Sugar Spice…

Spiced Pumpkin Jammers

Tuesdays with Dorie Dorie’s Cookies This is the second Jammers cookie we have made in the group. My comments for the Classic Jammers were “good but a lot of work”. These Pumpkin Jammers were also a lot of work. This is a cookie recipe that benefits from doing some of the work in advance but…

Bettelman

Tuesdays with Dorie Baking Chez Moi I have never heard of the dessert Bettelman but I do know bread pudding. This is France’s version of a bread pudding. Dorie says “Its texture falls somewhere between a cake and a pudding.” “…the egg whites are beaten until stiff and then folded into the mixture, so the…