Monthly Archives: August, 2010
BWD: Milk Chocolate Mini Bundt Cakes
I was very excited to pick today’s Baking with Dorie recipe for Milk Chocolate Mini Bundt Cakes. I am a big fan of chocolate cake, and mini desserts, so this was perfect for me! Thankfully I was feeling well enough today to tackle this recipe and make a big batch of homemade spaghetti sauce and …
Red Wine Balsamic Grilled Chicken
We are always looking for new and delicious ways to prepare grilled chicken. Normally I grab a packet of marinade mix, marinate the chicken, and the husband slaps it on the grill. I read the ingredients on the back of one of those packets a few weeks ago and was horrified. I am now trying …
BWD: Brown Sugar Bundt Cake
Today’s Baking with Dorie recipe for Brown Sugar Bundt Cake was chosen by Chaya of Chaya’s Comfy Cook Blog. Check out her blog for the recipe for this cake, or you can find it on page 179 of Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours. For as much as I enjoy cake decorating, I …
CEiMB: Sloppy Joes
This week’s Craving Ellie in My Belly recipe for Sloppy Joes was chosen by Chaya of Chaya’s Comfy Cooking. Check out her blog to see what she did with this recipe, and many other great recipes! Chaya and I are in several blogging groups together, and always has great tips and plenty of encouragement. I …
Adventures in Cake Decorating: Final Cake for Flowers and Cake Design Class
Yesterday was our final class for the Wilton Flowers and Cake Design course, and we did a final cake to pull together eveything we learned in the previous three weeks. I really enjoyed this course…we learned how to make a variety of flowers using royal icing, some new borders, and, my favorite, the basketweave. Getting …
SMS: Chocolate Strawberry Truffle Torte
I am very excited to be hosting this week’s Sweet Melissa Sundays recipe for the Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Torte! I joined this great group a few months ago, when they were already almost halfway through the book. I missed out on some great recipes, but was so excited to see this one hadn’t been made …
CEiMB: Shrimp Fra Diavolo with Spinach
I love shrimp, pasta, and spicy food, so when it was my turn to choose a recipe for Craving Ellie in My Belly, I knew exactly what to pick – Shrimp Fra Diavolo with Spinach. Fra Diavolo is, essentially, a spicy tomato sauce, which is right up our alley! This recipe is a cinch to …
BWD: Blueberry Crumb Cake
Sorry for posting this a day late…things have been VERY crazy here at The Rookie Baker house for the last week or so. We’re finally settling down and I’m looking forward to getting back in the kitchen! This week’s Baking with Dorie recipe was for Blueberry Crumb Cake and was chosen by Tina at My …
