When autumn rolls around, I always give a little sigh as I wave goodbye to short shorts, long daylight hours, and wild blackberry picking. When autumn rolls around, however, I always give a shout of excitement as I welcome a season full of cozy sweaters, apple picking, and above all, pies with luscious fillings! Pie [...]
What’s better than ending a meal with a cold decadent dessert, especially during a steamy hot summer? Chocolate Overload Cheesecake, how can you refuse? Here’s how to make it: Step 1: Get The Ingredients - You’ll need butter, cocoa, chocolate graham crackers, chocolate chips, cream cheese, sugar, corn starch, eggs, sour cream, instant coffee and [...]
Have you heard of The TakeDown? Yeap, it’s one of America’s most important food competition. Recently The TakeDown was in San Francisco and guess what’s the theme? BACON!!! You are given 15 lbs of bacon (sponsored by Hormel) to make whatever you want. How can we pass up such an opportunity to flaunt our BACON [...]
Love Nutella? Love Bread? Make this warm, soft and addictive Nutella Layered Pull-Away Bread! Trust me, the presentation itself will WOW your guests and crown you a “Baking Extraordinaire” ! Step 1: Get The Ingredients You’ll need the usual bread ingredients like flour, yeast, eggs, sugar, butter, milk and definitely lots of Nutella! See here [...]
You don’t have to be a pastry chef to know how to make French macarons. These colorful, almond-soft-airy French cookies are so tasty, popular and has become an American’s new found obsession. It can be intimidating to attempt to bake them but seriously, you don’t have to be a pastry chef. Since we are such [...]
Making macarons can be complicated and intimidating. Technique is so important to produce the perfect, delicious macarons. Our member, Pokin recently took a French Macaron baking class and shares with us all the essential tips and techniques she’s has learned. Pokin is a food loving traveler and is also the Founder of Geckogo.com. You can [...]