I made some cupcakes this week and turned to my most trusted references for help. Billy’s Vanilla, Vanilla Cupcake recipe, found here, is interesting in that you cut the butter into the dry ingredients and then add the wet ingredients. Most cake recipes require 5 minutes of creaming butter and sugar, but Billy’s technique is [...]
Archive for February, 2010
A Trio of Cupcakes: Chocolate, Vanilla & Matcha
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Stained Glass Jello
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
These jewel-like beauties were made by my dear friend Julia, the one who introduced me to mochi cake, Berkeley Bowl, Naan ‘n Curry, and the world of good eats in general. Graced with an eye for beauty as well as a discerning palate, she is the inspiration for many of my edible projects. This recipe [...]
Floating Pastries
Posted in Uncategorized on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yogurt Cake
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Gâteau au Yaourt – 2 eggs – 250ml (1 cup) whole milk plain unsweetened yogurt (if you use two 125ml or 4oz tubs, you can use them to measure out the rest of the ingredients) – 200g (1 cup) sugar (you can use an empty tub of yogurt and measure the equivalent of 2 yogurt [...]
Buttermilk Panna Cotta
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Buttermilk Panna Cotta If you have 1½ cups buttermilk on hand: 1½ tsp. unflavored gelatin ½ cup milk, not skim, but 1% and up ½ cup sugar 1½ cups buttermilk ¼ tsp. vanilla extract If you have 1 cup buttermilk on hand: 1 tsp. gelatin 6 T. milk 6 T. sugar 1 cup buttermilk 1/8 [...]
The original street food
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In anticipation of the first annual LA Street Food Festival, a gathering of LA’s finest food trucks — including ice cream and ice pops, pizza, bbq, burgers and tacos — I would like to share some of my dad’s favorite childhood foods. These red bean filled pastries are cooked in a cast iron pan, similar [...]
Camouflage Cupcakes
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had extra cream cheese frosting from the banana cake I made last week, so I decided to make red velvet cupcakes. However, I read that food coloring is not particularly healthful, and I also did not want to spend more money on the food coloring than the rest of the ingredients. Therefore, I omitted [...]
