peanut butter banana chocolate chip cookies
Posted: April 25, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, banana, banana cookies, chocolate chip, cookie, dessert, Food, peanut butter, snack 1 Comment »It all started when we wanted to see a movie at Alamo. And then we looked up their new menu, which had a peanut butter banana cookie. And we thought: huh, how bout that? So I looked to see if I could find a recipe for peanut butter banana cookies. And now here we are.
These cookies are definitely chewy and soft. They have a little different taste to them (and we ran out of chocolate chips!), but if you are looking for something new and different, try them out!
my ma’s pie plate
Posted: April 23, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: apple pie, bake, dessert, home, housewares, kitchen, pie, pie plate Leave a comment »You know how you have to have something just because your mom has it? I can’t possible make any more pies unless I have this pie plate.
mini little cupcakes
Posted: April 10, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, butter pecan, cake, cupcake, dessert, Food, frosting, mini cupcake 1 Comment »Sometimes, I want just like one bite of something. Like I want one bite of banana pudding (mmmm….banana pudding).
So when you want one bite of cake, you make mini cupcakes! These are so tiny! I made some butter pecan cake, topped with a bit of frosting, and a couple chopped pecans. Everyone at work said they tasted kinda like buttery waffles.
I was really nervous about the baking time for these little guys. I couldn’t find something that committed to a general time that mini cupcakes might bake. I ended up letting these guys be in the oven for 9 minutes, and they came out nice and moist.
We equated one cupcake to one bite of normal cake. So if you want three bites, then enjoy 3 mini cupcakes! Yummy math.
a flourless chocolate cake
Posted: March 29, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, dessert, flourless, Food, gluten free 2 Comments »When I looked for flourless chocolate cake recipes, I found two that caught my eye. Since I couldn’t decide which one would be better, I broke down and made them both. Sorry I’m not sorry.
I made this cake earlier in the week. Last night, I made this recipe. They both use the same basic ingredients, but this one uses some fluffy egg whites, so it has a more spongy, light texture, with a thin, crispy outer layer. Who could say no to that?
making a cake, and eating it too
Posted: March 26, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cake, chocolate, chocolate torte, dessert, flourless, Food, gluten free, recipe, torte 1 Comment »One of my dear friends is celebrating Passover this week, and asked if I could make a chocolate torte. I have never made a chocolate torte, but I was excited to try! I was a little bit nervous about putting so many eggs, and no flour, into the batter (and I accidentally cracked the cake down the middle flipping it out of the pan). But it turned out really good! Kinda like a brownie cake!
It was eaten very quickly, so this was the only terrible picture I took of it. We ate ours cold, in really thin slices, with a little fresh whipped cream and strawberries.
And I imagine that if I would have taken food styling classes and made this in daylight, the picture would look something like this:
You can find the recipe here. Try it!
getting crazy in the kitchen
Posted: March 15, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookies, cookie, dessert, Food, orange, orange zest, recipe Leave a comment »Everyone hold on to your hats, because I made something, and ADDED something to the recipe. I am turning into a baking rebel.
But for real, I know I am not a very adventurous baker. I usually stick to a recipe for the most part. I might use normal butter for unsalted butter, or light brown sugar for dark brown sugar, when I want to get crazy.
But I wanted to eat an orange, and I wanted to make cookies, so I decided to add some orange zest to these chocolate chip cookies. And they didn’t turn out to shabby. The zest added a nice freshness to it. Everyone at work seemed to eat them, so I would say that is success.
We ate ours split in half, with an orange split in half, and some tea.
white chocolate macadamia nut
Posted: February 26, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cookie, dessert, Food, macadamia nut, white chocolate, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies 4 Comments »My office sometimes has lunch brought in for meetings and such. Its usually never exactly meant for me, but sometimes, a leftover cookie finds its way into my belly.
But the white chocolate macadamia nut cookies from restaurants are always sooo good. They are like thick and chewy and full of delicious. So I decided to make some of my own. I used this recipe, and I highly recommend it. I mean, look at the nooks, crannies, and chunks. I still have some experimenting to do to make them come out just like the bakery, but I think this was a very good start.
PS- White chocolate is weird to me. It is a chocolate derivative. That sounds completely healthy.
chocolate orange cookies
Posted: February 21, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, chocolate, cookie, dessert, Food, orange, sandwich cookie Leave a comment »The 21st day of February calls for cookies. A new kind of cookie. An experiment.
To satisfy this requirement, I present the chocolate orange cookie. Which is really like 10% chocolate, 5% orange, and the rest is butter and sugar. Tasty little buggers, plus fun to make. I made mine mini sized, because we want cookies, but let’s not go crazy here.
cookie time: ginger cookies
Posted: February 19, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: bake, cookie, day off, dessert, Food, ginger, treat Leave a comment »It was one of those times when my office was closed, but everyone else still had to work. I still feel a little lost on those kinds of days. I could hang out with a coworker, but really, its a day for not seeing the face of anyone that reminds me of work. That is the point of a 3 day weekend.
So I made ginger cookies from the trusty Betty Crocker cookbook. They were delicious and I ate a ton of cookie dough and 3 cookies, because no one was here to stop me.
talking foods
Posted: February 11, 2013 Filed under: Girl Talk | Tags: cake, conversation heart, dessert, Food, love, pie, valentine, Valentine's day Leave a comment »I like it best when my desserts talk to me. (cake, pie)
