Sticky cinnamon bun!
Sticky bun!, originally uploaded by framboise. In my belly within: 3 min of coming out of the oven, 2 min of being placed on the plate, 1 min of being photographed. Another 11 buns in the dish. It’s going to be a busy day…
Tag Archives: baking
Ginger biccies
Made some ginger biscuits, recipe courtesy of BBC’s h2g2 pages. Three substitutions: used butter instead of margarine, raw crunchy brown turbinado sugar of forgotten name instead of demerara sugar, and maple syrup instead of golden syrup. Just because those were staple pantry items. It worked pretty well. I plopped two different sizes of dough on […]
Granola thumbprints
It’s been a wasted weekend. Work and sleeping off the effects of a cold have fettered my precious free time. That and 285 posts on the RSS reader. Must streamline. First to go will be the Scotsman feed; too much repetition. I’d already thrown out the right-of-centre blogs a few months ago, but was sucked […]
Almost oatcakes
One of the things I missed the most on arrival in LA too-many-years-ago-now were oatcakes. Just plain old oatcakes. [Backstory. Ignore and skip down a page for photo and recipe] About 5 years ago, in a spurt of healthiness (i.e. I felt like creeaap and decided to do something about it), I caved in and […]
A gas station cake where no gas is to be found
I’m a bit of a sucker for the “dump everything in” school of baking, given that I spend every day dealing with micro-volumes of nasty chemicals in multi-step, multi-day techniques dans les labo. So whenever Santos recommends an all-in-one-no-washing-no-hassle recipe, (see here for prior eg.), the baking pans come out. The timing of the recent […]
Chocolate and Wine
Do I ever talk about anything else these days? The mega-lab party was not quite as mega as I’d expected it to be. I guess the undergrads all have finals next week and weren’t in the partying mood. Ach well, more chocolate cake for everyone else. The “fixed” with ganache piss-easy-and-yet-I-duffed-it cakes went down very […]
Perfectly imperfect chocolate cakes
Don’t you hate it when you bake a cake and it turns into a dog’s breakfast by the time a few folk have tried to saw through it with plastic knives? I thought I’d preempt that by making lots of bite-sized cakes for that mega-lab party I’m committed to attending tamara. Perfect for buffets and […]
Oats so good for you
In search of a half-healthy yet tasty oatmeal cookie recipe. This particular attempt was a result of a modified epicurious recipe for oatmeal cookie sandwiches with nectarine ice cream1. I made one minor but critical change: the addition of lots of orange zest as well as a teaspoon of orange oil. And to (my) half […]
Mexican1 chocolate and almond cake
Another epicurious recipe: Mexican Chocolate and Almond Cake. Made modifications to the serving idea since I was taking this to someone else’s house for Cinco de Mayo: replaced sauce and cream with a simple chocolate ganache (1/3cup cream boiled and poured over 2/3 to 1 cup of chopped-up chocolate). There wasn’t quite enough time to […]
Banana and blueberry muffins
I’m always envious of those Martha Stewart types who seem to have it all together. You know, nice home, nice garden, nice kids, good food on the table, nice table settings. And I’ve always suspected that while Martha Stewart herself has a huge operational team to make that happen for her, there really exist real […]
