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Baking: From My Home to Yours
By Dorie Greenspan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - 2006
Brrrrr-ownies : page 103
With more chocolate than flour, these are some really rich brownies. In addition to 2 types of chocolate and butter, at the end, you fold in 6 oz of cut up york peppermint patties. We selected this recipe to prepare for my son's care package because he likes chocolate (who doesn't?) and mint chocolate chip ice cream. Can't send ice cream, but this has that minty feel to it.
My only negative is that the cookies were difficult to get out of the foil without breaking them. Somewhat brittle, but all those broken pieces were not put to waste (but possibly to waist) :0
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Golden Brioche Loaves : page 48
This is a fabulously rich dough which, as Jenncc says, takes a lot of time, but most of it hands off. I did not bake them into brioche loaves, though, but instead used the dough for some sweet rolls. The large amount of butter, and the sponge preparation, was different from other things that I baked. But my daughter tells me it made the flakiest and most delicious cinnamon buns ever.
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Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins : page 10
These muffins are wonderfully lemony, they have a crunchy exterior, and a tender crumb. I substituted greek yogurt for the sour cream. The yogurt created a creamy center and gave it just a little more of a pop in flavor.
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My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies : page 68
These cookies have everything I like in a chocolate chip cookie. The cookie matrix is soft in the middle and crunchy on the edge, it has good notes of caramel and butter, and including pecans is just genius.
My only complaint is that the baking time was wrong. The recipe suggests 10-12 minutes, but mine were definitely done by 8 minutes, and bordering on overcooked at 9.
Yield estimate of 48 was right on.
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Pecan Honey Sticky Buns : page 51
We used this general strategy, but instead made cinnamon rolls. This recipe's instructions for preparing the rolls, rising time, and baking were spot on. I hope to come back and make the actual sticky buns, and at that time, I will feel better about raising my rating to five.
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Pumpkin Muffins : page 13
I prepared this recipe as it was written, and loved the result! The muffins were moist, the raisins were just little nuggets of sweetness (not overpowering), and the muffins themselves had just the right amount of sweetness.
The color inside was also lovely - a perfect orange color. I might pump up the ground ginger and other spices next time, but maybe mine are just getting too old?
I am still playing with my new oven, and prepared these using convection bake. They turned out a tad browner than I had expected, and was initially disappointed. However they were all extra crunchy - telling me that the heat was well distributed - and the inside was so nice and moist that the final result was just perfect.
I prepared these for my daughter, for the first breakfast of her four-day weekend with no school.
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