New and exciting! Caramel Apple Pie Jones, the newest cookie in my Jones’ line. So, I was right. My Apple Pie Salted Caramel Chip Cookie (below) is now happier than ever, having joined my exclusive Joneses with piped Penuche and Dark Chocolate Jonesing. Just when I think that I’ve exhausted the flavors and textures of … More New Cookie! Caramel Apple Pie Jones
Not one, but two Dutch Apple Cakes with a thinnish coat of Brown Sugar Buttermilk Frosting. It’s free apple season, lots of apples from local trees, and that means use them or lose them. Last week it was apple oatmeal crisp and today these cakes. I had a bee in my bonnet about maybe buttermilk … More Dutch Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Buttermilk Frosting with Recipe
In a previous post, I told the “discovery” story of how I’d found and used Trader Joe’s Caramel Sea Salt Baking Chips in several of my own and one family recipe.* Last week I made cookies for my sister and niece (who had a birthday), and froze some dough to make a dozen for my … More Caramel Sea Salt Chip and Walnut Cookies
February 13th is the birthday of a native Alaskan man who lives in the Manor and who occasionally accepts a slice of cake or a cookie when I find him in the community room with his Tablet. I decided not to make chocolate because one of my Mahjongg ladies cannot have it and I thought … More Caramel Apple Cake and Trader Joe’s Caramel Sea Salt Baking Chips Review
Today is my sister Laurie’s birthday, but Maria and I celebrated with her aunt yesterday and I brought along the Jubilee Jumbles she’d requested rather than cake when I’d asked for her preference. It’s all about the frosting. I asked her if she wanted the browned butter frosting which the original recipe uses or perhaps … More Penuche on A Classic Cookie For A Birthday
My daughter has been celebrating her birthday weekend glamping in a forest with her cousins. When I told the manager here that Maria would be glamping, he said, “Ah, getting more glamorous.” Nope, different definition. They’re sleeping in king size beds inside of yurts in a beautiful rustic setting called Olympic Wilderness Base Camp, owned … More Happy Birthday to Maria, Glamping with Cousins
My readers know that when a cookie idea engages my brain, the oven will get some work, although in the heat of summer, it’s early in the morning with the stove fan going full blast. The impetus was a browned-butter caramel butter cookie and some penuche caramel frosting in the freezer needing thaw and use. … More New! and New! Salted Caramel Brown Butter Cookies & Double Caramel Wich
I asked my friend and neighbor what kind of cake she’d like for her birthday on July 15th. To my surprise, she said spice cake with caramel frosting. We talked about divvying it up with other cake lovers nearby and she said, not excited in the least, “I suppose it should be a sheet cake.” … More 2 Birthday Cakes: Spice Cake with Caramel Frosting, AKA Penuche!
To my friends and those celebrating Eid Al-Fitr as Ramadan 2021 ends beginning at sunset tonight in Seattle, May 12th, I wish you all a Blessed Eid. Today I made this Crazy Cake with Penuche frosting, a sprinkle of Sprouts’ Chocolate Gems and used my Arabic writing skills for the wish: Eid Mubarak. The cake … More Eid Mubarak
I admit it. I wanted to put the really, really old Albers Flapjack Flour – Peacock Buckwheat Flour serving gadget* in a pic so I took a photo of a slice of cake! One of my nieces says there’s never leftover frosting at her house, which could mean that there’s a deep layer of it … More Leftover penuche frosting? Put it on Cinnamon Apple Coffee Cake
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