Financiers cooling in the morning sun. According to Ito En: Matcha green tea is considered Japan’s most classic and popular beverage. Matcha is the treasured powdered green tea traditionally used in the Japanese Tea Ceremony-Chado. The vibrant green tea is finely milled from high quality tea leaves. Matcha is made using the entire tea leaf,…
Tag: Tuesday With Dorie
Odile’s Fresh Orange Cake
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we are making Odile’s Fresh Orange Cake from Baking Chez Moi. Here is my experience with this week’s recipe. I was looking forward to this baking assignment, heck I voted for it, and the picture looked so pretty but apparently I have had troubles with directions lately. I reviewed…
Soft-Centered Chocolate Teacup Cakes
This month on Tuesdays with Dorie is all about the chocolate. This week I made the Soft-Centered Chocolate Teacup Cakes AKA lava cakes. I was not sure that my tea cups were oven safe so I used my ramekins. These cakes are dangerously good. You can make them in mere minutes and they were divine….
Hot Chocolate Panna Cotta
This month on Tuesdays with Dorie we are making chocolate desserts from Baking Chez Moi. This week I made Hot Chocolate Panna Cotta page 373. Heavy cream, cocoa powder, bittersweet chocolate. What’s not to like! A lovely dessert for the chocolate lover. I did make the Fluted Carrot Tangerine Cake (page 22) on time but…
Lemon Squares, French Style
While I was reviewing the lemon squares recipe it seemed similar to The Most Extraordinary French Lemon Cream Tart from Baking From My Home To Yours which I had previously made. My comments were “french style is code for butter with a side of butter”. This recipe calls for a few steps and planning ahead….
Chocolate Chestnut Tart with Vanilla Chestnut Syrup
When I hear the word chestnuts I think of Nat King Cole’s version of The Christmas Song. Even though chestnuts seem synonymous with the holidays I have never had one until now. I took one baker’s suggestion to cut the chestnuts in half for easy cutting and eating. I also have finally learned to bake…
Stained Glass Cookies
I inherited my mother’s cookie cutter collection and it has brought back wonderful family memories to use them in this week’s Tuesday with Dorie recipe. Stained Glass Cookies from Baking Chez Moi. I got out my box of cookie cutters and picked a few appropriately sized ones to use. This recipe calls for Life Savers,…
Pear Cranberry Roll Up Tart
Thanksgiving is by far my most favorite holiday mostly because I get to cook it. I like it so much that I usually try and host a Thanksgiving-like meal one other time during the year. For a while I was hosting a “Thanksgiving in July” but this past summer was so hot that I could…
Chocolate Covered Toffee Break Ups
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we are making Chocolate Covered Toffee Break Ups from Baking Chez Moi. The last thing I needed was more candy in my house, we still have Halloween buckets filled with candy, but I wanted to participate in the group. Candy making is not my forte so I was a…
Apple Pielettes
This week on Tuesdays with Dorie we are making Apple Pielettes, little apple pies, from Baking Chez Moi. We are pie lovers and we were intrigued by these little desserts. Notes:I made a half recipe and had enough dough and filling to make 9 pies, a bonus. I used a combination of Fuji and Gala apples…
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