Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts

Thursday, January 31, 2013

In The Kitchen

It's been a very long time since I baked cookies, especially because I was sick before Christmas and didn't even get many Christmas cookies baked.  So over the weekend I spent a little time baking a batch  for Darrin and Kelsey.  I got to use her Kitchen Aid stand mixer - and fell completely in love with it!   The way it creamed the butter and sugar and then combined the egg into this lovely golden batter was glorious.   That machine has been added to my wish list for sure!



Since it's so cold and snowy up here today, I thought you might like to try making a batch of these for your cookie jar so I'm going to share the recipe, which I found on the Tasty Kitchen blog.

Coconut Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

These chocolatey-coconut delights are perfectly chewy and delicious. Beware, they will disappear from the cookie jar in a day, tops.
 
 
 Ingredients:
  • 1-¼ cup All-purpose Flour
  • ¼ cups (Rounded) Cocoa Powder, Unsweetened
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • ⅛ teaspoons Salt
  • 6 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
  • 3 Tablespoons Coconut Oil
  • ½ cups Granulated Sugar
  • ½ cups Light Brown Sugar, Packed
  • 1 whole Large Egg
  • 1-½ teaspoon Pure Vanilla
  • 1 cup Shredded Coconut (unsweetened)
  • 1 cup Old Fashioned Rolled Oats
  • 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

    Directions:

    Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
    In an electric mixer, cream together the butter, coconut oil, and sugars. Scrape down the sides and then add the egg and vanilla; mix to combine. On a low speed, gradually add the flour and cocoa mixture, until incorporated. Add the shredded coconut and oats and mix. Add chocolate chips and mix until just folded in. The dough will be pretty solid. Form into balls about the size of a heaping tablespoon and place on a lined-baking sheet (with a Silpat or parchment paper).
    Bake at 350ºF for 11 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for about 2 minutes more on the sheet, then remove and place on a cooling rack, or on an opened brown paper bag. Eat to your heart’s content. They are delicious!

    Cooking Notes:
    I doubled the recipe and made 60 cookies. The dough was very stiff and I added 2 Tbsps. milk to help it bind together.   I used a melon baller to scoop out the dough and then flattened the tops slightly so they would bake through.  The cookies are chewy and tender and I will be making them often!


Monday, October 15, 2012

Baking

Last year, the Pioneer Woman talked about a very cute baking pan she had that made lovely little acorn shapes.  Well, I found that pan at Superstore for just $9.99 :) and it was the last one they had - score!


So today Blake, Maëlle and I made banana muffins and baked them while Meadow was at school.  They are just adorable.


The instructions give a tip for putting icing on the flat sides and then gluing them together to make a 3-
D nut shape - wouldn't that be clever?  Next time we'll try that.



Such a little addition to my kitchen but it made me - and my helpers -  very happy today!

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Five on Friday

1.  I made these scrumptious Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins via the Martha Stewart website  this week.



photo from Martha Stewart's website

2.  And also this week I cut a chicken into pieces in 8 minutes!  I was actually quite surprised that it only took me a few minutes - it sometimes seems like such a big job.

3.  Beet relish, zucchini relish and spaghetti sauce are still on my list of "to-makes" this fall.  

4.  The kindergarten students and I joined the rest of the student body yesterday and did the Terry Fox Run through our community.  As long as I've been teaching, this has been a school event, raising umpteen dollars to support cancer research.  



5.  Photo of the week:


Bob's photo of the gigantic red sun
disappearing over the hill -
I love the ribbon of road that leads straight into the sun.



Wednesday, December 15, 2010

A Bit of Baking

In the freezer:

Butterscotch Confetti Squares (gluten-free)

Gingersnaps

Chai-Spiced Snickerdoodles (gluten-free)

Peanut Blossoms

Shortbread

Poppycock

On the to-do list:

Pinwheels

Thumbprints

Chocolate Peppermint Crinkles

Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Krispie Balls (gluten free)

Lazy Buttertart Squares

Pistachio-Cranberry Bark

Poppycock (yes, we go through lots of this!)

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Treats

There have been so many great pumpkin recipes everywhere I look lately so today I decided to make something special for dinner tomorrow.


I did some mixing -


and then some rising happened -



and a little frying -


and the result was Pumpkin Donuts (and Donut Holes)!  

I made a batch of cake donuts and a batch of yeast donuts, both using pumpkin puree.  It's the first time in a long, long while that I've made donuts and my day was full of memories of my Gramma Hetman and her boxes of donuts and of a local neighbor, Mrs. Neimann, who always used a full 20 lb. bag of flour when she baked these.  It seemed to take a whole day to fry a batch that size and every inch of counter space was filled!    Of course, one didn't have to do it again for a long while!

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

January In The Kitchen

In January, I baked:

- Red Velvet Cake

- Raspberry Mallow Dessert

- Cranberry Nut Muffins

- Gingerbread with Lemon Sauce

- Honey Wheat Buns

- Carrot Muffins with the Grade 2's at school



- Nut and Seed Bread

- Apple Pie (with Naomi's filling in a jar)

- Caramel Cinnamon Buns



- Pumpkin Pie

- Pumpkin Squares with Cream Cheese Icing

- Tapioca Pudding

It was a very yummy month!  And this list will be the basis of a scrapbook layout inspired by the Sweet Talk journalling challenge at Log Your Memory.