Triple Malt Chocolate Cake

Anna | August 31, 2008

 

I’m pretty excited because I finally baked the Triple Malt Chocolate Cake from Chowhound. It was so easy it almost made itself, but what was difficult was finding the right kind of malt powder.
In this recipe, the type of malt powder that works best is the unsweetened type made by Carnation or Horlick’s. I believe [...]

Scary City Cookies

Anna | August 31, 2008

I’m posting today’s cookie in honor of Gloria Pitzer — mother of all “secret recipes”. She’s also the mother of Michael Pitzer, who after years of doing nothing with www.secretrecipes.com, is bringing it back to life and hopes to have all his mom’s creations from 30 years of recipe developing, on one page. [...]

Alton Brown’s “The Thin”

Anna | August 30, 2008

It’s as hot as usual, but it’s starting to feel like fall because tonight is the first U.T. football game of the season. The neighborhood sounds like lawn mowers and people are running around in team colors buying beer and loading up pick-up trucks. Todd’s excited because this year he gets to go to [...]

Milk Chocolate Oreo Chunk Cookies

Anna | August 29, 2008

The coffee cake was fun and Fuzz now has some breakfast for tomorrow, but today’s Friday and that means chocolate!
The cookie I chose for today was from Martha Stewart’s Cookie Book. In the book, it’s called Milk-Chocolate Cookies, but you can find an almost identical recipe on Martha Stewart’s website under the name [...]

Easy Whole Wheat Walnut Coffee Cake

Anna | August 29, 2008

It’s Friday, so to end the week on an efficient note (and begin a weekend of wild inefficiency), here’s a recipe that can double as breakfast or dessert. The original Pillsbury recipe yields two round cakes, but I halved it and made it as written below, sans icing. I actually love icing, but [...]