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I don’t do crust. I have attempted crusts and have always epically failed at them. I do not like to attempt to get the butter and flour into the right combination of coarseness. I do not like the pressure of rolling it out, chilling it, rerolling it, and hoping you don’t overwork something in the process. I don’t do crust.
I did crust this week. It stressed me out a little. I expected the worst. And ya know what? It came out perfectly. I did crust!!!
So my friend Becky was showing me a recipe for sugar cookies that called for sour cream and she asked me if I thought it was weird that the cookies had sour cream in them. A little bell went off in my head and I remembered these little guys had sour cream in them too and it was far stranger to be in a pastry crust than a cookie, right? She wanted to try them and I was going to be watching the Bears game with her and some other friends that night so I figured I could bring these along. I cut it close. All the chilling time and prep time to roll and shape these things made me later than I wanted to be but not the last so it was all good. And everyone LOVED them. I was nervous because I took them straight out of the oven and over to the game so I had no idea what they tasted like. And I suck at crust so it could have ended disastrously.
I made half the batch for Sunday night and didn’t take any pics because I was so rushed to get to the game. And they all got eaten. So I made the other half today for pics (and I may have eaten some…). Sundays were cut into circles as Dorie suggested but I had a lot of scrap. I saw some other TWD posters did squares or triangles to eliminate scraps so I did both of those today. I did not veer from this recipe at all and it was awesome. I think I will do some pear ones with my scraps for my parents. Yum.
For the recipe, see Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, or get it from Jules’ blog: Someone’s in the Kitchen. Don’t forget to check out the TWD Blogroll!
So, I wanted to make this one and I was very excited to do it. THEN I read that you have to serve it immediately. Hmmm. I always bake and then bring the goods to my friends and family. So I seriously considered skipping this week, as it seemed to be a waste of eggs for me to sample it and then have it fall flat on its little chocolate face.
BOY WAS I WRONG. Nothing this delicious should ever be considered a waste of eggs! This was possibly the most delicious thing I’ve ever made. Its like a fudge brownie thats lighter than air. YUMMMMM. I will be making this for my Bible Study group when they come over at some point this year. And maybe at other moments just to make it because its that good. My fav Dorie recipe so far. So don’t be scared of it!
I made no changes to the recipe and made sure to use high quality chocolate. I sprinkled the top with powdered sugar but it kind of clumped. I think I used too much or something. My edges got a little dark too and I’m not sure why but it was still delicious. Let’s put it this way-my family and friends missed out majorly by not being in my house when this baby came out! 
Thanks to Susan of She’s Becoming DoughMessTic, who chose chocolate soufflé for TWD this week. For the recipe, see Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, or read Susan’s blog. Don’t forget to check out the TWD Blogroll!
OK, these were so incredibly delicious!! And I am not a coffee lover by any means. My dad, who is a coffee lover, was completely in love with them and ate most of them. Glad I pawned them off to his fridge and out of mine! The only thing I changed was the size of the pan. I only had an 8×8 so it baked a smidge longer.
So, I realize I am late yet again with my post. I work on the computer ALL DAY so I really hate getting on here when I’m not working so its sometimes hard for me to post on Tuesdays. I will get better at this!! I promise!! You may also notice I missed the Lime Cream Pie. Well, I didn’t really. I almost didn’t make it because I am not a pie eater but at the last moment decided to just make the cream and see how it tasted. It was GREAT! so great in fact, that I ate it all without taking any pics. So, yeah. Kinda failed that one. But I will make the full pie one day for a bake sale or something and then redeem my blog with pics of that one.
Thanks to Melissa of Life in a Peanut Shell for choosing Espresso Cheesecake Brownies for TWD. For the recipe, see Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, or read Life in a Peanut Shell. Don’t forget to check out the TWD Blogroll!
So, here I am, a day late yet again for my TWD posting. I just can’t help it… By the time I got these beauties covered in chocolate and their pics taken, I had to leave the house to deliver them to my chocolate loving nieces and get to my martial arts classes. So, I post late again. Better than not posting at all, yes?
This recipe was super easy and just uses one bowl. I made some slight modifications. I left out the orange zest because I had no oranges. Instead of 2.5 oz. of bittersweet chocolate, I used 1 oz. bittersweet and 2 oz. semi-sweet. I am not a huge lover of dark chocolate so I had to kick up the sweetness level a bit! Also, I didn’t have any white chocolate as that darn stuff tends to jump into my mouth everytime I buy some. What the heck? LOL. So I melted some regular chocolate chips and used those with some cutie star sprinkles. These were a HUGE hit with my sister and her girls. I will be making them again! Next time I will make a variety of flavors like cherry, mint, and peanut butter. YUM!!
Thanks to Jayma of Two Scientists Experimenting in the Kitchen for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie selection. Check out the blogroll to see how others did with this week’s recipe!
Banana Bundt Cake
So after a somewhat long sabbatical, I am back. I have been baking but I keep forgetting to post and/or forget to take pics before its all gobbled up! I did make the last TWD, the vanilla ice cream but had no pics and forgot to post. And I’m posting on a Wednesday because, yes, I forgot yesterday! I need my blog to be able to meow at me like the cats do when they are hungry! haha.
So this cake was SUPER delicious. I gave some (most) to my TKD instructor and he and his family had it gobbled up within 30 minutes of it arriving home!! His brother said it was some of the best banana cake he’s ever had. So moral of the story? BAKE IT! Its so delicious! It will definitely be a fall back recipe for me when I need to use some black bananas! Very moist and dense. Wish I still had some laying around!
For the recipe, see Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, or read The Food Librarian. Don’t forget to check out the TWD Blogroll!
Tuesdays with Dorie-Tribute to Katharine Hepburn Brownies
Posted by: Liss
I have never found a brownie recipe I absolutely LOVE. Even the best of my recipes were just OK for me. So when I saw brownies as the TWD pick, I sighed a little bit and decided to give it another try, even though I expected the worst.
Boy, was I surprised!! These were awesome. Very thin but oh so fudgy! I was nervous about adding cinnamon to a brownie but it makes it amazing!! My taste testers picked up on the subtle difference that the cinnamon added but they liked them a lot. I served them warm with homemade vanilla ice cream.Yum!! I did tweak the recipe by only adding half the coffee granules. Coffee and I do not get along but I appreciate the fact that it heightens the taste of chocolate. I also did half bittersweet chocolate, half semi-sweet. I am not a dark chocolate girl so I had to sweeten it up a bit! I also left out the nuts because I really don’t like nuts and my family has some severe nut allergies so I pretty much keep them out of my kitchen all the time. I baked mine in a 9″ square pan and it took about 35 minutes. I know some people reported problems with the gooey-ness of theirs. Mine came out just right!
If you want the recipe, you can buy Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan or you can check it out on with Lisa of Surviving Oz (who chose this week’s recipe). Check out how others did on the TWD Blogroll!
