Tag: baking
Edna Staebler: Chocolate zucchini cake
This last summer I had a bit of a mania for looking for old-school cookbooks in secondhand shops. My rules were simple; I was not allowed to buy any books that: depend on name recognition to sell (i.e. no celebrity chefs or bloggers); were published to promote a product or…
A Latte Food: Easy cream cheese pie crust (adapted for food processor)
Aimée’s birthday cake: black bean chocolate cake with whipped ganache frosting
Andrew’s birthday cake: almond butter cake with amaretto Italian buttercream
Smitten Kitchen: Hand pie dough
I haven’t had a lot of time to experiment with hand pies, and to be honest, my desire to mess around with different kinds of recipes is not what it used to be. That’s why I count myself fortunate to have come across this recipe, because even though I thought…
Quaker Oats: Best Banana Bread
It’s been a while since my last post, but I haven’t been idle; mead-making has been taking up most of my creative cycles. However, after hearing about the relative success of Operation Pantry Clearout, a friend recently unloaded the contents of her freezer on to me, which included a sizable…
Allrecipes: Louise’s spiced applesauce bread, modified
Joy of Cooking: Eight-yolk gold cake
Research on gluten-free flour mixes
Forever ago, I found a chart that listed all of the readily available non-wheat flours and their properties, for the purpose of helping people bake gluten-free things more easily. I can’t find that chart, so I’m looking around for other options now, and here’s what I’ve found so far. Between…