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I've done a bad job of taking pictures of desserts. I take pictures of the batter and then I forget to take pictures of the finished product before Jim eats them all.
Cookies!
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Beat together, form into cookie sized balls, press down gently, cook at 350 for about ten minutes.
They were yummy. I will have to make more to get finished product pictures.
"Butterscotch" "Brownies"
I have no idea why the recipe is called that. They are neither butterscotchy nor brownies.
Here is the recipe!
Haha. In English, that would be:
Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups brown sugar (we used 2 cups white sugar and some honey, because our brown sugar had bread in it to keep it from clumping - ::headdesk::). Add in 1 tsp vanilla and 3 eggs. Beat mixture. Mix together 1/2 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp xanthan gum, 1 cup rice flour, and 1/2 soy flour (we used tapioca flour). Blend the dry mixture in with the wet mixture.
Somewhere in there you were supposed to add in 2 tsp baking powder. Looking at the white board now, I think I forgot to do that...
Stir in 1 cup of chocolate chips or chopped nuts or whatever you want. We didn't add anything.
Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.
The white board also shows an icing recipe. I varied it a little since we kinda ran out of powdered sugar, but it's pretty similar to the icing I usually make.
This recipe says to boil 1/4 c butter with 1/4 c cocoa. Then add in 1/3 cup buttermilk, 1 tsp vanilla (hahaha, I'd at least triple that), 1/4 tsp salt, and 3 to 4 cups of powdered sugar. Beat until smooth.
What I usually do for icing is melt some butter, pour some soy milk on top of it, add a good tablespoon of vanilla, and stir in powdered sugar until it's the consistency I want. If I wanted chocolate, I'd add cocoa powder until it was chocolately enough. Icing is pretty easy.
Again, I don't have finished pictures of the "brownies", since we nommed them pretty quickly. They were very good, if a little chewy and dense (the baking powder might have helped...). I could probably have also beat some egg whites or something to help fluff them up. I dunno. Jim said he liked the texture the way it was, and he cares way more about that than I do.
Last but not least, I made some coconut chocolate chip cookie bar things based on a recipe I found on someone else's blog. I changed a lot.
Beat together 3 eggs, 1/2 melted butter, and a tablespoon of vanilla. Add in 1 cup of brown sugar (by this point we'd bought new brown sugar, but I'm sure the white sugar/honey thing would have worked here too). Beat in 2 cups of some kind of gluten-free flour mix. I used the Gluten Free Pantry stuff (which is available at Whole Foods and at Kroger), but rice flour with some xanthan gum added in would have worked too. Stir in 1.5 cups coconut and 1 cup chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 in a buttered casserole dish for about 21 minutes. Or, y'know, set the timer, walk away, and have your boyfriend turn the timer off and NOT TAKE THE BARS OUT OR TELL YOU HE TURNED OFF THE TIMER. Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Jim.
They turned out okay. I found them to be fantastic and they're my favorite of the group so far. Jim does not agree.
Next up I think will be flourless chocolate cake. But it might be a week or so. We're both a little sugared out at this point.
Cookies!
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
Beat together, form into cookie sized balls, press down gently, cook at 350 for about ten minutes.
They were yummy. I will have to make more to get finished product pictures.
"Butterscotch" "Brownies"
I have no idea why the recipe is called that. They are neither butterscotchy nor brownies.
Here is the recipe!
Haha. In English, that would be:
Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups brown sugar (we used 2 cups white sugar and some honey, because our brown sugar had bread in it to keep it from clumping - ::headdesk::). Add in 1 tsp vanilla and 3 eggs. Beat mixture. Mix together 1/2 tsp salt, 3/4 tsp xanthan gum, 1 cup rice flour, and 1/2 soy flour (we used tapioca flour). Blend the dry mixture in with the wet mixture.
Somewhere in there you were supposed to add in 2 tsp baking powder. Looking at the white board now, I think I forgot to do that...
Stir in 1 cup of chocolate chips or chopped nuts or whatever you want. We didn't add anything.
Bake at 350 for 30-35 minutes.
The white board also shows an icing recipe. I varied it a little since we kinda ran out of powdered sugar, but it's pretty similar to the icing I usually make.
This recipe says to boil 1/4 c butter with 1/4 c cocoa. Then add in 1/3 cup buttermilk, 1 tsp vanilla (hahaha, I'd at least triple that), 1/4 tsp salt, and 3 to 4 cups of powdered sugar. Beat until smooth.
What I usually do for icing is melt some butter, pour some soy milk on top of it, add a good tablespoon of vanilla, and stir in powdered sugar until it's the consistency I want. If I wanted chocolate, I'd add cocoa powder until it was chocolately enough. Icing is pretty easy.
Again, I don't have finished pictures of the "brownies", since we nommed them pretty quickly. They were very good, if a little chewy and dense (the baking powder might have helped...). I could probably have also beat some egg whites or something to help fluff them up. I dunno. Jim said he liked the texture the way it was, and he cares way more about that than I do.
Last but not least, I made some coconut chocolate chip cookie bar things based on a recipe I found on someone else's blog. I changed a lot.
Beat together 3 eggs, 1/2 melted butter, and a tablespoon of vanilla. Add in 1 cup of brown sugar (by this point we'd bought new brown sugar, but I'm sure the white sugar/honey thing would have worked here too). Beat in 2 cups of some kind of gluten-free flour mix. I used the Gluten Free Pantry stuff (which is available at Whole Foods and at Kroger), but rice flour with some xanthan gum added in would have worked too. Stir in 1.5 cups coconut and 1 cup chocolate chips.
Bake at 350 in a buttered casserole dish for about 21 minutes. Or, y'know, set the timer, walk away, and have your boyfriend turn the timer off and NOT TAKE THE BARS OUT OR TELL YOU HE TURNED OFF THE TIMER. Yeah, I'm lookin' at you, Jim.
They turned out okay. I found them to be fantastic and they're my favorite of the group so far. Jim does not agree.
Next up I think will be flourless chocolate cake. But it might be a week or so. We're both a little sugared out at this point.
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Date: 2010-08-23 04:44 am (UTC)From:The coconut thing would have been best with 3x as much chocolate, 2x as much sugar, and half as much flour. Also, they would have been better had I not turned off the oven timer, forgotten about them, and let them almost burn, lol.