We are making peanut butter today! All by ourselves. And you need all of two things: 1) Peanuts 2) A food processor Easy! I made peanut butter for the first time in Berlin earlier this year when I had a baking day with Erin from Texanerin Baking. I was absolutely amazed as the food processor whizzed and whizzed and turned her peanuts into a spread. I couldn’t believe how easy … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Basics
Basic Sweet Pastry
Basic sweet shortcrust pastry. It is a beautiful thing. It can be used for pies, tarts and pastries of all sorts. It seems though, that shortcrust pastry is sometimes feared, that it is too hard to make, too complicated, or some are afraid it won’t turn out. So I thought I would share with you my basic recipe for shortcrust pastry. There are many variations out there, using different sugars, … Continue reading →
Homemade Nutella Chips
Nutella! I’m obsessed with it, so when I saw this recipe I jumped all over it. I thought it would be good to have in the Basics section, and then I made some Biscoff blondies using these Nutella chips that are coming soon! But you can use these chips in anything! Cookies, brownies, stirred into cakes, in pies, mixed into vanilla ice cream, on top of frosted bars, straight out … Continue reading →
Salted Caramel
So I decided I am going to start a little Baking Basics section on the blog. And this salted caramel will be the first little ‘Basics’ installment. I thought that it would make it easy for you if you are ever looking for a basic pie dough, caramel or pastry cream recipe, that there will be (soon!) an entire section devoted to them in my index. And then instead of … Continue reading →