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Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Holidays'
My favorite way to indulge is just a piece of the darkest chocolate (just this side of unsweetened) that I can find. I love chocolate in any form a baked good takes, of course, but just a bite of the pure stuff is still my favorite!
Cook the Book: 'The Tex-Mex Cookbook'
We usually do a big long sandwich, cut up into afewbites-sized pieces, lots of chips and a variety of dips, queso, etc. My favorite has to be wings, just because they're so awesome homemade and that's the one time in the year that I make them!
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I've had quite a few "biggest" disasters, all of which come when I try to bake and do *anything* else simultaneously (talk to someone, make dinner, do laundry, etc etc). I've forgotten the leavening in a variety of things, overbeat batters, swapped crucial ingredients... the list goes on. As long as I just focus on the task at hand, I'm usually fine. :)
Cook the Book: 'Chocolate Holidays'
My favorite way to indulge is just a piece of the darkest chocolate (just this side of unsweetened) that I can find. I love chocolate in any form a baked good takes, of course, but just a bite of the pure stuff is still my favorite!
Cook the Book: 'The Tex-Mex Cookbook'
We usually do a big long sandwich, cut up into afewbites-sized pieces, lots of chips and a variety of dips, queso, etc. My favorite has to be wings, just because they're so awesome homemade and that's the one time in the year that I make them!
Cook the Book: 'The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without'
Roasted asparagus with lemon butter; broccoli & rice casserole (with more broccoli than rice), and spinach ANYTHING!
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
Thank you SO much for posting this recipe, it's incredible! I have a subscription to CI, but somehow missed this one. Hands down the best drop biscuit recipe I've ever tried... and so easy! Will by my go-to from this point forward.
Cook the Book: Sicilian Pistachio Bars
Oh my... I made these last night (the day this post went up!), and my hubby and I split them to take to our respective offices today. All of our co-workers are quite used to receiving my home-baked goodies, and while they're generally appreciated, some go over better than others. This one was a *winner* - they went like hotcakes. I actually used about 1 cup of pistachios over the top (so 1-1/2 cups total for the recipe), and sprinkled them with turbinado sugar instead of the 2 tsp extra granulated. Very, very yummy - try this recipe!
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
I love this recipe. I subscribe to America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country. They have a million outstanding recipes. Plus they've already done all the testing, so the recipe is perfect. These biscuits are good any time, but I especially love them when I make homemade soup. They are also very good on top of a heart stew and baked in the oven until they're brown.
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
Sounds delicious! Can't wait to dunk them in Turkey gravy!!
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
These will be on our holiday table this year. We are preparing for a move, so this Thanksgiving is a little hectic -- we need all of the easy, foolproof hints we can get.
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
yummy biscuits. Best of everything
Cook the Book: Sicilian Pistachio Bars
i made this recipe with no changes, except i used the almond extract instead of amaretto. A+ result. i will definitely make it again in the future.
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
BISCUITS GO WITH THE TURKEY. ONE HAS TO ENJOY BISQUITS WITH TURKEY AND THIS RECIPE LOOKS GOOD TO GO. HOWEVER, I DIDN'T SEE A RECIPE FOR INDIAN PUDDING.THAT'S THE DESSERT THAT PUTS THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO A TURKEY THANKSGIVING FEAST.
Cook's Illustrated's Best Drop Biscuits
Biscuits are my absolutely favorite so I love this recipe!!! So simply and yet so versatile! Heat up with some butter, jam, nutella or eat with gravy or cranberry sauce. Thanksgiving leftovers? Use a biscuit to make a little sandwich, or use the leftover to make a little potpie and use biscuit as top cover, even brush with olive oil as a makeshift panini! YUM!
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
Every time I bake it's a disaster :)
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success was making cinnamon buns.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking disaster was my sons first birthday cake that I tried to bake and I forgot the eggs... lol it was horrible flat gummy horrible! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I like to try different candy recipes during the Christmas Holidays, so a few years ago, I found a recipe for homemade cherry chocolates. They were easy to make and tasted great, so I made a lot of them, for family and friends. Now, every Christmas they all want more of them, lol, which is fine, with me, they are easy to make and you can make them early in the season. They improve with age.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
my biggest success was making cream cheese pound cake it came out so perfect that its a request every year
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
Biggest success is when I make my Candy Bar Cheeskcake. Always turns out perfect. I have never had any horrifyingly bad experiences. So far, so good (knock on wood).
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
Let's just say that you cannot switch Baking Soda and Baking Powder in and out...you must use what the recipe calls for...*bleck*
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success was the Baed Alaska I baked for my husband's second anniversary.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest success is my amazingly awesome Christmas dinners each and every year! I fix all of the traditional favorites and try 5 or 6 new recipes I have selected during the year for something special.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
baking mix and flour are not the same thing. the hockey pucks disguised as muffins that came out of my oven are proof of that.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest success would probably be pound cake and blondies as people always seem to love them. I don't have a big disaster story as I check and double check because I do worry about that. I did make a Scooby Doo cake once though that was adorable and tasty but a pain to decorate, I had never attempted that before.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success was when I took a cake decorating class and made my daughter a birthday cake with a birds nest and a little bird. I think it turned out quite well.
Then there was the time I tried my luck at making roses on another cake and that didn't turn out to well.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
one time I was baking a quiche in the oven and it overflowed all over my oven ...Thats was not an easy mess to clean! I was so upset with myself, that I've never tried that recipe again.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest disaster is when I forget about what I am baki8ng and burn it. It happens about once every 3 months. My biggest success is my cakes. I have become really good at baking cakes and everyone seems to love them.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I have a disaster about once a week whenever I end up burning something.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest downfall was my first attempt at baked beans, as a novice cook years ago: double the recipe and I must have doubled the time--results were hard, dry, and so stuck to the dish that rather than try to remove it I actually threw out the baking dish. And I was poor and never threw anything out, but this was BAD.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
The first time a made cookies in my apartment I used the broiler pan because I did not have a cookie sheet and I remembered my mom using some kind of cooking paper(yes I know now its parchment) I used wax. the wax melted and I tried scrapping it off. There were big black burnt stipes on the cookies. I still brought them in to work for our class bake sell. They sold like hot cakes. All the kids thought it was chocolate stipes.
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I've had quite a few "biggest" disasters, all of which come when I try to bake and do *anything* else simultaneously (talk to someone, make dinner, do laundry, etc etc). I've forgotten the leavening in a variety of things, overbeat batters, swapped crucial ingredients... the list goes on. As long as I just focus on the task at hand, I'm usually fine. :)