Anyways, about the recipe, these are really good! Nice, light and fluffy vanilla cupcakes with creamy vanilla frosting. I made them mini because they were going into my mom's office and needed to last a while, but you can just as easily make them regular-sized as well.
The bestest thing ever happened yesterday. My house got a new oven installed. It's awesome. Get this, it actually bakes my cupcakes within the baking time suggested, and evenly! Our old oven never got up to the right temperature and baked really unevenly, the convection option didn't work, and it lost heat really easily and wouldn't readjust after losing heat, so we got a new one. I even found out after playing around with the different functions that it has a setting for proofing dough, so when you want to proof your bread dough in the winter when your kitchen is too cold and you don't want to kill the yeast in a 200 degree F oven, you can set the oven to 100 degrees F and proof it in there! I am just so excited! I used the oven yesterday for chocolate chip cookies that went to work with my mom, and naturally she came back with an empty tin. Today I'm making her cupcakes to bring into work, isn't that awesome! I even have this cool cupcake carrier to package them in! It's actually just okay, because it's dropped a cake before and it's huge and awkward to carry, but it works better than a regular plastic container that will squish my frosting.
Anyways, about the recipe, these are really good! Nice, light and fluffy vanilla cupcakes with creamy vanilla frosting. I made them mini because they were going into my mom's office and needed to last a while, but you can just as easily make them regular-sized as well.
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You've all heard me rave about Biscoff spread before, so now it's time to rave about Biscoff cookies. These cookies are mainly sold in Europe, although if you're lucky you may be able to find them around here, too. Other than being sold in supermarkets and candy stores, these cookies are also oftentimes served with coffee or tea. When I went to France, we went to go get coffee at a corner coffee shop, and my friends, who ordered espresso, were served a small packet of two Biscoff cookies to eat with their coffee. This is actually one of the main reasons I made them. My sister is coming home for her birthday this weekend (expect to see pictures of a birthday cake coming up soon), and our plan is to use all these beautiful new teacups we were given by our grandmother's best friend to have a tea party. I thought it sounded adorable, although I'll probably have hot chocolate or something because I don't like tea. Anyways, I made these for our expected tea party because they're a nice little sweet to have with coffee and tea. Plus, if you know what a Biscoff cookie is or have ever tried one, I was very impressed by how dead-on this recipe got the taste of them. Took me back to France again!
I think I've officially gotten to the place in my baking where I've made pretty much all of the basic recipes in all of the basic categories, and now I'm getting a bit more funky with it. I've shared recipes with all of you for chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies, gingersnaps, snickerdoodles, oatmeal raisin, etc. Then there's brownies, blondies, the basic chocolate, vanilla, carrot, and red velvet cake, and apple pie and crisp. So, now it's a matter of combining some of those recipes into one mash-up recipe, or using a different flavor in one of my basic recipes to create a whole new product. So, in comes the white chocolate chip molasses cookies. They are a bit like gingersnaps with more flour and white chocolate chips. That's a good summary of these cookies. Therefore, they are not at all snappy, they are actually quite soft. Also, you must chill the dough, so beware. Enjoy the recipe, and look forward to all new types of unique and out-there recipes!
Today was another day where I just felt like baking. Plus, once I realized the cookie sheets I had been using after all these years were also jelly roll pans, I went crazy. I thought that was so cool! So, I decided to make a jelly roll. They just look so cool, so why not?
This jelly roll was quite a success for a first-timer, I'd say. There were a couple cracks in the cake, but I made up for that with frosting and powdered sugar on top. Also, there were quite a few crumbs when spreading the frosting and when rolling the cake, which made my cross-section photos look a little messy, but still awesome. Concerning the taste, it was amazing. Very rich, as my mom said. I lowered the amount of butter for the recipe I have below. Also, just know that I didn't actually like the taste of the frosting by itself after I made it (because you have to taste test frosting, right?), but once I tried the cake with the frosting inside, they paired really well together and I loved it!. It also just looks so cool, am I right? I'm right. So, go try this! You may fail on your first try, jelly rolls are not easy, but once you get it correct it is really rewarding. I didn't fail, but I think I can do better next time. It's all about practice, so give it a go! It sure is fun to make! I'm making this for my mom's dinner tonight. She's apparently having a friend over that she met in college and she told her all about my baking, so she was excited to taste some, so of course I would bake for her. I saw this online and instantly put it onto my "Recipes to Try" list, because it is so cool. First of all, it is a one layer chocolate torte, which is different from the two-layer buttercream-frosted cakes I usually make, and I like making something different. Also, the truffles on the top of the cake are homemade, by you! All you do is scoop bits of the ganache onto parchment paper, chill it, and then form it into balls and roll in cocoa powder, and voila, you have homemade truffles to decorate an already pretty cake! So go put this on your recipes to try list, if like me you have one (or 5) of them, and try making this!
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