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

  1. Puree the fruit
  2. Bring the fruit, water, lemon juice, and honey to a simmer, stirring occasionally
  3. 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

  1. Preheat oven to 350F
  2. Mix dry ingredients and set aside
  3. Cream butter and sugar
  4. 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

  1. Preheat oven to 275F
  2. Whisk the sugars together
  3. In a large bowl, cream the butter then add sugar
  4. Mix in the flour
  5. Let dough rest for 10 minutes...