Obsession du jour: the Rum and Coke Cake outlined on Serious Eats. I totally needed an excuse to break out the bundt pan and open a bottle of rum.
Posts Tagged ‘baking’
Next baking project acquired
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, bundt, postaday2011, rum and coke cake, rum cake, Serious Eats on March 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Strawberry cake, interrupted
Posted in Eats, Family, tagged baking, birthday cake, childhood, death, grandmother, oven, postaday2011, strawberry cake, strawberry cupcakes, strawberry Jell-O cake, strawberry jello cake on March 22, 2011 | 10 Comments »
This post was supposed to be about the awesome strawberry cupcakes I made that reminded me of my grandmother and finally fulfilled a nearly yearlong craving. But NO, because my oven hates cupcakes and burns the bottom of each and every one. I hinted around last year that I would love to have a strawberry [...]
Foolproof (so far) pecan pie
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, Baking Illustrated, cats, Cook's Illustrated, cooking, food, pecan pie, pecans, Pi Day, pie shell, pies, postaday2011, recipes, toasted nuts, toasted pecans on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
So I’m told by people who know such things that I’m actually getting the most difficult part of pecan pie right. Apparently it can be quite a feat to get the filling to set up correctly. Who knew? I got my recipe for the filling from Baking Illustrated, a book published by the editors of [...]
Delicious Pi Day celebration
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, Cook's Country, cooking, food, husband, pecan pie, Pi Day, pie, pie crust, recipes on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Editor’s note: Here’s the link to the post outlining the filling recipe for this pie. Here’s my official contribution to Mrs Dragon’s Pi Day celebration: pecan pie. I used a Cook’s Country recipe for the pie crust this time. It made a “pat-in-the-pan” dough that allowed me to skip trying to roll dough into a [...]
Baking the annual king cake
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged baking, cinnamon, cinnamon sugar, cream cheese, food, frozen bread dough, king cake, Mardi Gras, postaday2011, recipes, Southern Plate on March 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I made our annual king cake today with a recipe from Southern Plate that called for frozen bread dough. It was a cinch to make compared to my traditional recipe, which calls for making the dough, letting the dough rise, punching down the dough, letting the dough rise yet again, rolling and shaping the dough, [...]
King cake shortcut
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, food, frozen bread dough, king cake, Mardi Gras, postaday2011, Southern Living, Southern Plate on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mardi Gras is approaching, and I’m craving king cake. Although the king cakes at Publix are looking better than they did a couple of weeks ago, I’m tempted to make my own this year. Only the extremely complicated recipe that my mom culled from Southern Living a couple of decades ago takes the better part [...]
Pies on the prize
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, food, kitchen, Mrs Dragon, Mrs Dragon's Den, pecan pie, Pi Day, pie, pie crust, postaday2011 on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Is there such as thing as a pie gauntlet? If so, then Mrs Dragon has thrown it down. In celebration of Pi Day — 3/14 — she has issued a pie challenge, complete with nifty prizes. I certainly won’t be making any more sweet potato pies, but I do have some pecans awaiting their destiny [...]
Do One Thing: The cleansing burn of anger
Posted in Do One Thing, Home, tagged 3/4-length sleeves, anger, baking, challenge, cleaning, coffee, decluttering, Do One Thing, King Arthur Flour, kitchen, kitchen gadgets, New Year, New Year's resolution, pie, postaday2011, resolutions on January 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home. Day 28: Clean angry. Choose a room. Get rid of anything that you don’t wear, don’t use or don’t love. Get rid of anything that doesn’t make you less angry. Get rid of anything [...]
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