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January 28, 2008

Balsamic Blueberries and Peaches

I was looking for a vegan dessert recipe, and Google wasn't so helpful. I'm pretty sure I went to fine cooking, but didn't find anything exciting or workable. So I went to epicurious and held my breath as I typed in "vegan dessert". Hundreds of recipes came back and glancing over them, it did look like they were desserts and vegan recipes. Nice feature!!!

This was a 4 out of 4 forks, and so many people would make it again. Plus it looked easy! I took the advice written in one of the reviews to put it over peach sorbet. It didn't take much peach sorbet, and I thought it tasted much better than just the pure fruit and sauce. I do think the yield of 4 is pretty low, especially adding in the sorbet. Either that, or my bowl was a nice small size. A half serving felt like plenty enough for me. (I ended up having the whole serving, anyway. Dessert is a rare treat at our house!)

February 10, 2008

Double Chocolate Crackles

My last crackle cookies were so delicious, I was eager to make more. I was invited to two Superbowl parties, so I made a batch of cookies to split between the parties. I'm not a big chocolate fan myself, but these were pretty good cookies! I definitely liked the double ginger crackles the best. (The longest lasting cookies in the batch tasted fantastic!! But remember, I'm not a huge chocolate fan....) The neat part of these cookies is that there are melted chocolate chunks in them along with the chocolate and cocoa in the cookie itself. The orange zest in the cookies really added to the flavor of the cookies.

This was the first time I finally used my bigger Kitchen Aid, so it was fun to figure it out. (I got chocolate batter all over it!) I bought two silicone tray liners and those made it very easy to slip the silicone off the tray and onto the cooling racks. The cookie dough seemed a little greasy when trying to roll it into balls. Rolling just the top of the ball in sugar made it go faster than the last time I made crackle cookies, where I just rolled the whole ball in sugar.

(Although these cookies were really good, personally I'd rather have a brownie!)

  • Double Chocolate Crackles (Fine Cooking 89, p. 71)

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