My Baking Adventures
German chocolate cake... my absolute favorite cake!
Turns out, the recipe on the back of a Bakers baking chocolate bar is the PERFECT recipe. Except for figuring out how to separate the eggs yolks, which is required for the recipe--for a novice like me, that seemed impossible! But... the internet helped me out, there. Check the video at the end of this section. :)
I wanted to make homemade strawberry buttercream frosting, and as it turns out, strawberry reduction is super easy to do!
Basically, you puree strawberries, add a little lemon, salt, and maybe some sugar, and reduce by half over low heat.
Add the powdered sugar and butter, mix it up, and viola! Delicious.
An easy rustic bread--mix up the dough...
Flour and fold it into a shaggy dough ball, then cover and let it rise overnight in a dutch oven...
...Then bake it in the same dutch oven the next day. So good! :)
I ALSO love just a perfect yellow cake... and this one has my homemade dark chocolate buttercream frosting--with a bit of espresso powder to intensify the flavor. It's fantastic!
I mean... YUM!
OH! And I couldn't cook without this--I use this scale for basically EVERYTHING. The things I didn't know I didn't know. :)