September 2008 Archives

Elephant Heart Plum to be precise.  And Dimply Plum Cake.

Which sadly my review has to be... 'eh.'

I did like the mildness of the brown sugar coffee cake, but just didn't like how the whole thing came together.  It didn't seem to be the most user-friendly of baked goods.  Perhaps this is because everytime I tried to move it around to wrap it in plastic the plums wanted to break apart and take the cake down with it.

Although they were a fun excuse to visit the old offices and share the largess with folks.  It was great to get to see friendly faces and hear that everyone seems to be doing well.

At the waffle party, the homemade butterscotch sauce, rum soaked raisins, and cinnamon coconut date (dairy free) ice cream were all stellar.  It is always great to see what folks bring and then how well all the different ingredients mesh (e.g. creme fraiche, lingonberry jam, and lavendar honey all go well together).

This week for the Tuesdays with Dorie, it is Chocolate Whopper Malted Drops.  Which I'd made before, but figured I would make with the virtual masses.  Especially since the housemate said he liked them the first go round.  I have to confess that these didn't really wow me either time, but they are fairly easy to throw together.  I did futz with the recipe some this time, nor purposefully but I had some extra margarine from making the waffles and figured instead of letting it go to waste, so I did the extra 3Tbsp that the recipe calls for as margarine instead of butter.  And since the bittersweet chocolate only came in a 4 oz bar, I threw in some semi-sweet discs to make up the remaining chocolate.

The recipe for Sept. 2 was Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters.  However I've just been calling them Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies...not much shorter, but it seems like a lot less verbiage.

I was reading that people had been having dry dough, stiff dough...breaking kitchen implements dough.  Not here.  It was great, very gooey but after several hours in the refrigerator it became perfectly manageable.  However I think I misjudged the size this were supposed to be, since the recipe said 60 cookies and I was lucky to get 30.  However this was a good, good mistake.  It took much longer for the cookies to bake, but when they were done they were big, thick and chewy.  And 30 cookies are more than enough to send out to the world and hopefully spread a little bit of happiness.