dessert
Oreos
🕓 Mar 25, 2024
~20 sandwhich cookies
Ingredients
- 156g (1 1/4 cup) flour
- 41g (1/2 cup) heavily dutch-processed cocoa
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 113g (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 150g (3/4 cup) white sugar
- 50g (1/4 cup) brown sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Creme
- 56g...
Hard Candies
🕓 Mar 19, 2024
Ingredients
- 430g (2 cups) sugar
- 3.5g (1/2 tsp) cream of tartar
- 100g (1/3 cup) water
- 100g (~1/3 cup) syrup (maple, corn, or honey)
- flavouring, for example:
- 1 - 2 tsp fruit extract, eg. raspberry or lemon
- (Optional) food colouring
“Pop rock” variant
As above, but:
- Substitute liquid...
Peanut Butter Cookies
🕓 Mar 16, 2024
Makes ~ 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup (156g) flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup (100g) brown sugar
- 1/4 cup (50g) white sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 3/4 cup (185g) creamy peanut butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- (optional) 3/4 cup (110g) finely chopped...
Sour Gummies
🕓 Feb 8, 2024
Ingredients
- 1 cup (~200g) of frozen fruit
- 80mL water
- 15mL lemon juice (~ 1/2 lemon)
- 50g honey
- 12g gelatin
Powder coating:
- 100g sugar
- 6-18g citric acid
Instructions
- Puree the fruit
- Bring the fruit, water, lemon juice, and honey to a simmer, stirring occasionally
- Slowly sprinkle the gelatin over...
Sour Jellies
🕓 Jan 20, 2024
Ingredients
- 1 cup water and 1/2 cup fruit juice, OR 1.5 cups tea
- 6g citric acid
- 200g sugar
- 24g gelatin
Note: requires 2 small high walled pots and a candy thermometer
For dusting:
- 6g citric, ascorbirc, or tartaric acid (adjust to taste)
- 16g powdered sugar
- 16g corn starch
- 25g sugar
For final...
Yellow Cupcakes
🕓 Jan 6, 2024
~15 small cupcakes
Ingredients
- 1.75 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 0.75 cups milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F
- Mix dry ingredients and set aside
- Cream butter and sugar
- Beat in eggs, vanilla...
Kohakutou (琥珀糖)
🕓 Jan 2, 2024
Ingredients
- 10g agar agar
- 250mL water
- 250g sugar
- colouring and flavouring as desired
- glass container (eg. 8" x 8" or 8" by 4")
Tea flavoured
Green tea: 3g sencha steeped for 10 minutes
- Note: this flavour is pretty subtle, it is worth increasing the steep time or the amount of...
Fudge
🕓 Dec 17, 2023
A 9x9" pan of sticky fudge
Ingredients
- 1.5tsp baking soda
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1.5 cups milk
- 2 tbsp (maple or corn) syrup
- 2 tbsp butter
Mixins (optional):
- ~1/2 cup crushed nuts
- spices (vanilla, salt crystals, etc.)
- ~4 oz melted chocolate
- with 1 tsp espresso powder...
Gingerbread Cookies
🕓 Dec 17, 2023
Note: prepare the batter a day before baking
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup (295g) fancy molasses
- 2 eggs
- 4+ cups ((540g) flour
- 2 tbsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground allspice
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground clove
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp...
Shortbread
🕓 Dec 17, 2023
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup (10oz) softened butter
- 1/4 cup (1 oz) powdered sugar, sifted
- 1/4 cup (1.75 oz) white sugar
- 2 1/4 cup (12.5 oz) flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275F
- Whisk the sugars together
- In a large bowl, cream the butter then add sugar
- Mix in the flour
- Let dough rest for 10 minutes...