baking notes
ChocolateChocolate Tracker: My Coca-Cola Cake (page 285, and following page) with its Coca-Cola Frosting (page 286) is a well-baked treat from my sweet ChocolateChocolate. The cake is exceptionally moist, bakes up easily, and feeds a sweet-loving crowd.
Baking by Flavor Tracker: Still the all-time, must-bake recipe from Baking by Flavor, my Kitchen Sink Buttercrunch Bars, leads the pack for chewy, caramelly, buttercrunch candy-smacked bar cookies. Oh my. The praise continues (for such an easy recipe, I admit).
ChocolateChocolate Tracker: A best-baked favorite from ChocolateChocolate continues to be the Chocolate Chip Crumb Buns (page 213, and following pages). A chocolate chip yeast dough is spiraled around a chocolate chip cream filling and, once cut into individual buns and panned, generously topped topped with chocolate chip streusel, and baked.
It wasn’t another Chicken Dinner Weekend, but it was Monday Night Chicken Dinner with Roadside Chicken Tacos on the menu from Poulet: More than 50 Remarkable Meals that Exhalt the Honest Chicken by Cree LeFavour. Oh, how delish. Bonus for me: I used a batch of my handmade corn tortillas.
Baking Style Tracker: My answer to readers asking me to choose a favorite chocolate cookie from Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes? The recipe for when chocolate chip cookies go butterscotch (page 475). These are buttery and caramelly, with lots of chips.
Baking Style Tracker: My blondie cake appeared within Project Foodie, and it is one fun-and-easy sweet to make–part cake, part bar cookie. A whisk-in-the-bowl batter, so deliciously simple, and a favorite recipe from Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes.
baking style diary reflects on favorite cookies: Developed for Food & Wine magazine, my recipe for Large and Luscious Two-Chip Oatmeal Cookies is a cookie jar gem.
VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health…for Good by Mark Bittman offers–among the range of recipes–simple-to-make breakfast items for powering-up your day. Notably, both the Banana Parfaits, mashed bananas layered with cereal and fruit, and the Breakfast Pilaf, Sweet or Savory, a type of morning porridge based on using short-grain brown rice, conform to the author’s mission statement on healthful eating–deliciously.
For all visitors of baking style diary who’ve asked about the post on Oprah’s blog, Life Lift on my golden salted butter crisps, you read it here. It’s a lovely tender-crisp, buttery cookie that’s just meant to be broken in pieces large and small, odd and craggy. Easy. Delicious.
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