Spoiler alert: the secret ingredient is chocolate malt powder. Sorry, did I give that away too early? My dad always told me to play my cards closer to my chest. But I was just too excited to keep my secret to myself. I’ve been meaning to make these cookies for a while, ever since I […]
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Honey-Lavender Butter Cookie Medallions
Erlend, my boyfriend, has been growing a bunch of exciting herbs and spices in our garden. I’m especially excited about his gardening because fresh herbs and spices really make a big difference in the cooking/baking process. It’s so much more flavorful than the stuff you buy in bottles at supermarkets — only god knows […]
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Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Lace Florentines
One of my biggest grievances about Colorado is that the state does not have any Trader Joe’s supermarkets. I basically lived off of Trader Joe’s frozen food in college… well, okay, definitely for several years after college too. But perhaps nothing could match my love for their plastic buckets filled with snacks. Trader Joe’s Chocolate […]
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Orange Madeleines with a Honey-Orange Glaze
So, remember in my last post, I was able to adapt i am a food blog‘s recipe for Earl Grey madeleines by panicking and changing the oven temperature halfway through baking time? Well, I spent the last week playing around with the recipe’s temperature to see if I could get a more accurate high-altitude adjustment. […]
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i am a food blog’s Earl Grey Madeleines, High-Altitude Style
When I was living in San Francisco, I used to work a few blocks away from a Daiso. The best way to describe Daiso is that it’s the Japanese take on a dollar-store — most items in the store are from Japan and cost about a dollar, and you can find a wide variety of […]
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Cookies, cookies! Chocolate chip cookies!
Happy New Year! As a welcome back, I figured that instead of subjecting you fine folks to another failed experiment, I would start with a successful recipe for one of my favorite baked goods: chocolate chip cookies. I brought these in to work before I took off for the Philippines, and I’m happy to say […]
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