Troy Chocolate Cake

Anna | February 29, 2008

I don’t usually serve this kind of thing as an after school snack, but it’s Friday and Fuzz has had a rough week so I decided to bake her a little cake using a recipe I found in my mom’s messy old binder o’ clippings. This one was written on a loose index card in handwriting [...]

Bouchon Bakery Nutter Butters

Anna | February 29, 2008

The other day someone asked me if I thought 4 sticks of butter (1 pound) was too much for a recipe. Expecting to find the 4 sticks butter balanced out by 3 or 4 cups of flour and plenty of sugar, I took a look at the recipe, which happened to be this one – [...]

One. Last. Giant. Cookie. Post.

Anna | February 28, 2008

I promise I will stop after this one. Really, I will. I can stop anytime.
This is a picture of cookie baked with the previous recipe, only this time the dough had been thoroughly chilled. The chilled dough baked up higher and more “raggedy” on the outside and the inside looked more like [...]

More (and final!) post on Big Fat Copy Cats

Anna | February 27, 2008

This afternoon I tested out a recipe mentioned in the comment section two posts back. A few people have said these are similar to the cookies at Levain bakery, but I can’t say since I haven’t been there. These are definitely fat and have a soft insides, but they don’t look particularly like Levain’s. I [...]

Big Fat Copy Cats

Anna | February 27, 2008

It’s a new day and I’m ready to bake! Oh wait. It’s also Wednesday….my super busy day, so this could be tricky. I do plan to try out the Levain Copy Cat recipe mentioned in yesterday’s comments, but before I do, here’s a cookie recipe I monkeyed around with yesterday evening. This is a small [...]