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Christmas chocolates
This year for Christmas I decided I wanted to make candy, in particular filled chocolates, for gifts. We made candy one year for Christmas for my grandparents, and I remembered having fun with it. Besides, ever since making the caramel sauce I'd been salivating over the idea of making my own salty caramel-filled chocolates. Most of the ones you buy from the store are really just dipped chewy caramels. They're good, but I prefer chocolates filled with soft caramel that oozes out when you bite into it.
Holly Leaf Apple Spice Cupcakes
I made this recipe a couple of times last winter, and although I'm almost sure I made some changes, I can't seem to find them. Ah, well. At any rate, these cupcakes won an LPL baking contest, so there's that!
Further fun with Fondant
So these are lotus flowers made with Jasmine flavored fondant.
I basically took the usual marshmallow fondant recipe, and substituted half of the "water" in the microwaving stage for extract.
It was pretty wow!
And then with the extra fondant I made "truffles". Just dipped round balls of fondant into melted chocolate. Also delicious!
Orange Cake with Grand Marnier Ganache
Orange sour cream cake and orange liqueur-spiked dark chocolate ganache taste pretty good together. The cake recipe is from Gourmet magazine, and I added the ganache and filling. The original recipe would make a nice, simple cake. Prep time may be an underestimate depending on how quickly your cake cools.
Congratulations, HiSCI
My boss, Alfred, is the PI of another instrument which was just selected for inclusion on the joint NASA/ESA mission ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Naturally, this calls for cake!
Moogle Cupcakes!
Went to the Final Fantasy Distant Worlds concert in Washington DC this past friday. It was an outdoor venue with picnic/eating allowed on the lawn so of course I had to make something!
The picture isn't great but it's a moogle cupcake.
Not really complicated enough to warrant a recipe but the ingredients are:
cupcake+frosting
starburst (cut in half, pink)
jumbo gum drop (red)
marshmallow (pink)
Black icing for eyes.
Chocolate sprinkles for whiskers.
How to make a gluten-free, sugar-free crepe cake
Like to bake? Have a friend who can't eat gluten, and can only consume limited amounts of sugar? Feel guilty that you're always bringing in wheaty, sugar-laden baked goodness? Never fear - follow this easy tutorial, and you too can make a decadent treat for the sugar-free celiac in your life!
Mario Cupcakes!
This probably dates me but I'd say the Nintendo (NES) was pretty much the most influential electronic item of my childhood. And for me, the most mind numbingly played game was Super Mario Brothers 3. It's easily 8+ hours of your life to just play it through continuously but it never worked like that. There were always interruptions even during summer vacation like 'lunch' or 'dinner' or 'clean your room' or 'you should go outside and play'. And in those hours away from the TV, you were still thinking about the game BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SAVE....
Cream Cheese Swiss Meringue Buttercream
Sometimes cream cheese frosting is just better than plain buttercream. This is the frosting for those occasions. It's softer than regular buttercream, but just as delicious.
