I was really excited when I heard about this month’s Mystery Box ingredient. It’s something that I feel is underrated and unfairly mocked, even by food professionals (such a shame). I think it’s lovely and actually just misunderstood.
White chocolate is a unique ingredient, and while dark and milk chocolate have hordes of rabid fans, you’d [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chocolate’
The Popularization Process
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010More Cupcakes!!
Sunday, July 18th, 2010I was sad when it was announced that Iron Cupcake: Earth was no more. It was a significant factor in my getting seriously interested in pastry, leading me to experiment with recipes and learn how to make a real buttercream. It was on hiatus for a while as its fate was being determined, and I [...]
Red Varrrrrrlvet
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010I postulated about a month or so ago that I wondered if one could make red velvet mochi cake. I have absolutely no idea why this popped into my head (I’m not even really a fan of red velvet) but I decided it would be worth a try. How hard could it be? A little [...]
Iron Cupcake: Passion
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010This month’s theme for Iron Cupcake: Earth is passion. Obviously, this is a Valentine’s thing. So I made these on Valentines Day.
Iron Cupcake: Winter Warm Up
Monday, January 18th, 2010I’m back out of my on-again-off-again hiatus to give you a little something I whipped up for this month’s Iron Cupcake.
A Very Tasty Date
Saturday, November 21st, 2009One thing I don’t really bake often is quickbread. I generally wait until I have some bananas or zucchini or something to use up before I start pouring things into loaf pans. And then – even if the results are REALLY good – I don’t bother sharing because they don’t photograph that well and I, [...]
Daring Bakers October 2009 – Macarons
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.
Iron Cupcake: Music II
Saturday, October 24th, 2009“In a prehistoric dried up lake
A million years after the last earthquake
There lived a little girl who loved to bake
The only thing she made was cake and all she used was salt
That’s all she had, it’s not her fault
Saline the Salt Lake Queen”
- Rasputina
This was the first idea I had upon learning what this month’s [...]
