Profiteroles. As opposed to Cream Puffs which are filled with whipped cream and the occasional fruit, profiteroles are often filled with ice cream or pastry cream. I had some Earl Grey Pastry Cream left over from a previous baking project, and decided to use it as a filling for these profiteroles! These puffs are inspired [...]
The marriage of bacon and maple. I've always seen bacon and maple donuts as well as bacon and maple cupcakes, but haven't seen very much of them on a cookie. For work this week, we are hosting an event in which the theme for the night is bacon. I was asked to make a small [...]
Summer is here, and so is camping season. Even though California no longer allows fire pits in fear of forest fires due to the drought, summer screams for s'mores! First, you want to melt the butter and chocolate over a double boiler. While that's going, whisk together the eggs, sugar, and vanilla in a separate [...]
These are the cookies that inspired my love of baking. The very first from scratch recipe I ever made were these classic chocolate chip cookies. That was in seventh grade, about nine years ago. I made them for my teacher to put in care packages to send to troops, and have been using this recipe [...]
Something that typically happens when there are more than one grocery shopper in the house, is that there tends to be an overlap of buying the same things. In this weeks case with my apartment mates, it was the bananas. I had a total of 9 bananas that were going to go to waste if [...]
The Kitchen Harvest 