Day Nine: Emotions
{“I never met a chocolate I didn’t like.”- Deanna Troi.
It has been said that chocolate can change your ickiest mood. Here’s a photo of some lovelies I made yesterday. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cheesecake Bars. Everyone who had a piece seemed to be in heaven… So I’m guessing the chocolate theory is right! Ha}
Day Six: Partial
{“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.” – Boris Johnson}
Day Four: Kitchen
{Tonight we’ll be entertaining guests so I baked us up a batch of raspberry-lemon cupcakes. They look so cute and taste so guud. Can’t wait for dinner! Lol}
Once upon a time, I avoided lemon flavoured desserts. It seemed wrong to me that dessert would be made with lemons. They’re acidic and too tangy people! They will just ruin the perfect dessert!
Silly Candice. One should not make an opinion about something unless one has tried it thyself. Then one is granted all privilege to make judgements on said thing.
My view changed when I had a slice of Lemon Meringue Pie from a friend. I was in disbelief that something so err …unpleasant… would make my taste buds dance and sing to the heavens! “If lemon be the food of love, eat on!” Sayeth my tongue.
On Sunday night, I decided to try Lemon Bars. We were expecting my uncle for dinner and I needed a dessert that was little prep and little bake time. On my first attempt I made one blunder. In the original recipe, the baker made her bars in a 9 x 13 pan. I on the other hand, made mine in a rectangular shaped cupcake baking pan. So the dimensions were smaller. Shamefully, I baked my bars in the same amount of time it took the 9 x 13 pans and burnt them all. *hangs head in shame* They were surprisingly good though. My uncle ate and licked his plate to boot. No, that last part did not happen but he said it was good and ate all of it!
Two tablespoons of perfection, a cup of determination and a constant nagging in my head pressed me to revisit the recipe with minor alterations. I baked the crust in half the original time but baked the filling in its original time, which equaled to SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUSNESS!
P.S. I also halved the original recipe.
Here! The recipe [plus pictures] for all, from Bakerella.
Lemon Bars
Crust:
1 cup butter
1 3/4 cup flour
2/3 cup confectioner’s sugar (plus more for dusting)
Topping:
1 1/2 cup plain sugar
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 cup lemon juice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease and flour a 9 X 13 pan
To make crust:
To make topping:
{Getting my hands dirty. Pressing the crust into the pan}
{They look so ugly when they’re done. Urgh. I will spare you the details of my sister’s description of them}
{Half a cup full of powdered sugar helps the lemons go down -tehe}
{Bon Appetit}
I stumbled upon this snack recipe on Cooking Classy and wanted to try it for quite a while now.
I love chocolate, I love me some marshmallows and graham crackers are pretty yummy when accompanies by either of the aforementioned. I altered the recipe a bit btw. So here’s what ya need and gotta do.
Ingredients:
6 graham cracker sheets*, or 12 Saltine or Ritz Crackers (or as many as you wish)
6 large marshmallows (enough to fit your crackers)
12 Hershey’s Kisses, unwrapped (enough to top your crackers)
Directions:
1. Break graham cracker sheets in half.
2. Using clean scissors (or a clean knife) cut each marshmallow into 2 halves.
3. Heat oven to Low Broil.
4. Align graham crackers in the center of a cookie sheet about 1/2″ apart from each other.
5. Top each graham cracker with a marshmallow with the cut/sticky side down.
6. Place marshmallow topped graham crackers under broiler (turn oven light on if you have one) DON’T WALK AWAY, watch them closely as they will toast quickly, allow to toast until golden rotating pan with oven mitt as needed.
7. Once golden immediately remove from oven, place 1 Kiss in the center of each toasted marshmallow and gently press down. For best results serve warm, just like a real S’more.
8. Enjoy!
I only made six this morning but you can do as many as you wish… or can eat, lol. Below are some shots I took while making them.
You will need: graham crackers, marshmallows, hershey’s kisses.
Try not to eat them all as you cut them – tehe.
Put oven on Broil. Wait a little bit for it to heat up.
Put those sugary babies in! Close oven and wait a couple secs. Remember, DO NOT WALK AWAY.
They will turn golden brown and smell heavenly…
Place Kisses on top. Eat. Enjoy 🙂
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