Food Post: Gianduia Sandwich Cookies

I love baking and at the same time I love sharing my recipes to family and friends. Let's face it though sometimes, you'll need a LOT of ingredients to make one simple pastry! That's why today, I am sharing a very simple 3-ingredient recipe using a well-known and loved chocolate spread!

Food Post: Valrhona Chewy Brownies

Everyone can make brownies nowadays because of the vast and popular box-mix brownies. Honestly speaking, I've been so lazy making brownies from scratch because there are a lot of good brownie mix available on supermarkets. Few months ago, I tricked few people by baking Ghirardelli's brownie mix and found that all of them fell for it. I DID try making brownies from scratch a few years ago but it turned out more "cakey" and dry unlike the instant ones which are gooey so I stopped making them and just bought instant ones.

Food Post: Buckeye Peanut Butter Cup Cookies

  

My sister-in-law sent us a huge Jar of peanut butter a few weeks ago. I LOVE peanut butter, I can eat it alone or spread it on a nice warm toast with coffee on a rainy day (like today!). But since there's only me and my husband in our house, a huge jar will take forever for us to consume! haha, sorry just exaggerating. I've been searching for different recipes which includes peanut butter and yesterday I thought of doing this Buckeye Peanut butter cup cookies.

Food Post: Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

(photo taken from my instagram)

Good chocolate chip cookies for me are soft, chewy and not too sweet. In supermarkets I only buy one specific brand for these cookies, it's soft batch by Keebler. I got my husband and youngest brother hooked by simply putting it in the microwave oven for 10 to 15 seconds or until the cookies are hot and the chocolate chips are about to melt-yum!

What's for dinner : Spaghetti and meatballs

Came across a website where they featured Betty Crocker's spaghetti with meatballs recipe. It is my first try and I am proud to say the food was gone in a few minutes with my in-laws joining us for dinner! :) 

Before getting married you'll rarely see me cook. Not because I don't have any intention of learning but I think it was more of the "demoralizing" comments that kept me away from cooking. Now that I have my own kitchen, I can pretty much do anything I find over the web! :) my heart still belongs to baking, though. :)

For the meatballs, i made it from scratch (yes!) combining ground beef, milk, worcestershire sauce, bread crumbs, onions, salt and pepper. 

Happy Tummy <3

Food Post: Oreo Cheesecake Cookies

When I first got into baking I made nothing else but cookies. They're very easy and fun to make especially these oreo cheesecake cookies! they're egg-free! You can just imagine how tempted I was to just eat the batter and skip baking.

Food Post: Rainbow Vanilla Cupcakes with Choco Buttercream Frosting

Hello September! It's the "ber" months once again and in a few days we'll start the 100-day countdown before Christmas *excited*. 

Despite having a sweet tooth, I barely eat what I make. I enjoy baking but I'm much happier when I give it out to people, wait for happy faces and critiques, haha! so don't worry about my sugar intake, I am perfectly fine! :)

Food Post: how to make Dark Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

It's our barangay fiesta today! I've decided to make cupcakes for everyone, unfortunately I bought the wrong size of cupcake liners so I ended up making few huge cupcakes! :( oh well, this is just my second attempt to make these so I'm still learning from it.

This recipe was from the Browneyedbaker.

Dark chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting.

The photo above is what you need for the "cupcake"

Temp: 350 F bake for 20 minutes

Ingredients:

(yield: 12 to 15 big cupcakes)

1 stick unsalted butter, room temp.

4 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate

4 eggs

1 cup sour cream

1 and a half cup of all purpose flour

1 and a half tsp of vanilla

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup dutch processed cocoa

1 and a half cup of granulated sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1. Pre-heat oven

2. combine cocoa, butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl. Set over saucepan containing simmering water. when completely melted, remove from heat then set aside.

 

3. whisk flour, baking soda and baking powder.

4. whisk eggs. add sugar, vanilla and salt. Add the chocolate mixture and 1/3 of the flour mixture. Add sour cream and when fully incorporated add the remaining flour mixture. Your batter should look (and feel) thick, similar to this:

 

5. line your muffin/cupcake pan with cupcake liners and pour your batter about 2/3 full.

 

Bake for 20 minutes and you should have something like this : :D yay cupcakes!

 

Now for the peanut butter frosting! :)

Ingredients:

1 cup confectioner's sugar

1 cup peanut butter

5 tbsp unsalted butter-room temp

3/4 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp salt

1/3 cup heavy cream

 

Just mix everything together making sure that there are no lumps! :)

 

Decorate your cupcakes and serve! :)

Food Post: Red Velvet Cupcakes

Aside from make-up and polymer clay, one thing that I love the most is baking! More than 2 decades ago, my mama probably bake cakes and other goodies everyday! My father had a gigantic sweet tooth, check his side of the closet and I'm sure you'd always find a stash of chocolate.

I still recall my ate and I sitting on top of our table waiting for the mixer rods and lick it clean (oh and the bowls too!) but when my father died, my mama stopped baking even though she had this dream of building her own baked goodies store. (she said she wanted it named "something" because when we were kids, we called pasalubongs as "something")

I do bake, but never tried making cupcakes or cakes so last night after thiking which flavor to try first (either dark chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting or red velvet)  I went on and tried making red velvet cupcakes because it reminded me of my youngest sister. 

I got my recipe from the brown eyed baker but had to adjust it because there's only me and my husband, baking a whole batch was not an option.

Recipe: (yields 5 to 6 regular size cupcakes)

Temp: 350 F bake for 20 minutes

Cupcake ingredients:

4 tbsp unsalted butter (room temp)

1/4 cup granulated sugar

Half an egg

1/2 tbsp dutch processed cocoa

2 tbsp red food coloring

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup buttermilk

1/2 cup all purpose flour

Pinch of salt

Pinch of baking soda (yes a pinch, this is a very small batch)

1/2 tsp distilled white vinegar

Cream cheese frosting ingredients:

1 oz butter (room temp)

1 oz cream cheese (room temp)

1/2 cup powder sugar

1/4 tbsp vanilla extract

You dont need a mixer for this, it practically wont mix your ingredients well because of the volume so I ended up mixing it the traditional way, a whisk. Also for the buttermilk, if you dont have one just add a teaspoon of vinegar to half a cup of milk. Please do look for a dutch processed cocoa, it makes a huge difference.