Iron Cupcake:Cheese--Voting Open
posted by joeli under ironcupcake
The voting for Iron Cupcake: Cheese is now open! You can vote here
This is my entry but there are a lot of great entries so just vote for whichever you like best!
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Book Review (and a note about silicone bakeware)
posted by joeli under book reviews
I've decided that once a week, I will post a review of some cooking related book. I should note that I'm not actually a big fan of most cookbooks but if I don't hate it then I probably love it. I don't like recipes with lots of fancy ingredients and I don't generally cook with meat or fish, nor do we usually have fruits or wine in the house. So mostly, I flip through a cookbook, see maybe one recipe I like and put it back on the shelf. But by forcing myself to review one cookbook a week, it's making me really look at the book and decide what I like and what I don't. Hopefully I'll find a few more that deserve a place on my shelf. Most of the cookbooks I review will be ones that I get from the library, a few will be ones that I own. My reviews will honest and if I recommend buying a book it'll only be because I think it's a genuinely good book and worth owning. Keep reading for my views on On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee and also my views on silicone bakeware.
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Cheddar apple pie cupcakes
posted by joeli under cupcakes, ironcupcake
These cupcakes are my entry for Iron Cupcake:Cheese. When I first heard the ingredient I knew I had to use cheddar. The progression to using apples as well naturally followed. These cupcakes taste exactly like apple pie. In fact, I prefer them to apple pie because I'm not a big fan of pie crust. However, I'm not sure if I prefer them to apple crumble BUT next time I make these I will try them with a crumble topping instead of a cream cheese topping and see what they are like. The recipe that follows is my own creation.
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Putting the Pie in Pizza Pie
posted by joeli under pizza
I have a goal to find the ultimate recipe for enough dishes that anytime company is coming over I don't have to worry about what to make or if it'll turn out okay. So that means I need an ultimate appetizer, main course and desert. I like to know that if someone requests something, say brownies, then I have a sure-fire recipe that won't let me down. One day, I will make a list for you of my current top recipes. But today I need to talk about pizza dough. Pizza is by far my favorite savory food. I have been making pizza dough from scratch for years and it's always been good, but never great. Company has approved, but never went gaga over it. Yesterday I tried a new recipe that was unbelievably good. It made me swoon and normally I'm quite picky about things I make. I can't wait to have company over to try out this dough. If they don't go crazy, I'll be slightly disappointed.
It all started when I was playing with Stumble and I came across this site. (He provides awesome photos and a better step-by-step then me so go check it out, I'll wait). How could you not want to make that?! I certainly could not resist and I'm so glad I didn't. Look what awaited me:
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Boston Cream Cupcakes
posted by joeli under cupcakes
I have officially made the world's best cupcakes. For me, the following cupcakes represent perfection. Now I should preface this by saying that I am a huge fan of Boston Cream Pie. My dad and I used to sit around the kitchen table when I was a kid and eat a whole pie together. Every birthday for my cake I wanted Boston Cream Pie cake. We used to make this using one box of yellow cake mix, one box of vanilla pudding and one tub of chocolate frosting. Now that I've grown up I can't stand buying boxed cake mix but could never find a recipe that replicated the taste I love so much. Well this is it. These cupcakes came out exactly as I remembered from my days of sitting around that table getting chubby with my daddy.
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