Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies

From Dorie Greenspan's cookbook, "Baking:  From My Home to Yours," here's a delicious example of her Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies.

A few of my co-workers had colds this past week, and in order to circumvent those germs lodging into my system, I made a huge pot of chicken soup with turmeric, ginger, chicken bone broth, etc. After being on this liquid preventative cure for brunch, lunch, and dinner, I was starving for a carb. Ha!

It was snowing and blowing outside, and I thought, molasses cookies sound perfect about now.  After an in-depth cleaning of my kitchen cabinets last weekend, I knew I had molasses in the house so it was a go.

I have Dorie's cookbook (I even met and talked to her at a book signing!), but rather than write it out here, I wanted to link to her website.  Unfortunately, because the recipe is old, it doesn't appear that it's included on the site.  Instead, here's a link to epicurious.com which does.  Enjoy the warming, winter spices of these delicious cookies!

Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies




Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Cranberry Walnut Clementine Cake

Yesterday I felt myself wanting a piece of happiness so I baked this Cranberry Walnut Clementine Cake.  It's still the holiday season so I actually had fresh cranberries in my refrigerator...and fresh clementines (!) which the recipe didn't call for, but the rind and juice of which I added.  Can you imagine that heavenly scent?  I almost think each morning I should squirt clementine juice and wonderfully bitter zest through the air!  O.k., so I'm getting carried away, I know.

I'm not sure why I don't post more of my baking...this I shall change, sweet foodie followers, for it brings me back to my youth when I would bake constantly in our large kitchen and dream of working at Chocolatier Magazine and being a pastry chef!

Now, I have a tiny kitchen, but I still love to bake.  It's art that edible, no?   Ironically, if I post a piece of artwork or a culinary creation, the latter seems to always garner more interest.  Not sure what that says about my art! ha!  Anyway, I'm just doing both for myself, I suppose, and am hoping you like to look at it, too. (-:

Cranberry Walnut Clementine Cake with Blueberry Acai Tea