Please don't let the head sister know...but I have had to do some heavy baking lately. T-Bear left for London last week - so it was off to the couch (a.k.a. the kitchen) for my therapy session!
Delved into the Chocolate malted whopper drops (pg. 85) - so very excited about trying these out. What is it with me?? Flat as a fritter. The whopper balls melted away. Could taste the caramelly taste - but not texture - and I love texture!! (Maybe because my body has so much of it these days:>)
And then - what I have been dyin' to do - our family favorite choc. chip recipe using fleur de sel and european butter - wow they were oozing and spreading before I could get them in the oven. Pretty much turned into one big tuille. Pretty much cut them into rectangles - and scooped them off the cookie sheet. Even tried refrig. the next batch - no luck! Back to my C/M Organic butter...but defintely liked the salt thing-a-ma-jig.
Okay, then the creme de la creme Rebecca's (Pasty Queen) Earthquake cake OMG. That's gosh, not God; TDF recipe. I made it with the Valharona choc (expeeensive - yes!) cocoa powder. Found in CM's bulk; Vietnamese cinnamon-more intense flavor; and did the Sylvia Winestock tip of basting the baked cake layers with a simple syrup (1c. sugar and 1c. water - boil until dissolved and add 1/2 (yes, that's right) of whatever you want. i.e. almond extract, vanilla extract; kahlua, whatever; and baste away. It is for a birthday lunch tomorrow - what is left.
So, verry sorry head sister - I will try to stick to the schedule and not bake anything that is not on the play list - or at least for a week - or so - but my girlfriend's gone - for three months!! (Of which I am soooooo very excited for her - truly!!)
Each one of you is so very loved and so special to me!!
Gotta run and purge so I can try to make room for Vivo's margarita - because Lance won the men's club championship at Austin Golf Club!! Howsa' 'bout that. Seriously, I don't know how God has time for everyone else - because he is so busy with me and my family!!
Haute
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