Also visit our main website, TheNibble.com.
One friend of ours has a set of shamrock cookie cutters, and makes shamrock shortbread every St. Patrick’s Day. She tops them with green and/or white royal icing, and an assortment of green glitter and sprinkles. While we love shortbread, we take the easier way out. Here are two recipes that will make you extremely…
Continue reading “Chocolate Chip & Oreo Cookie Recipes For St. Patrick’s Day”
Only ice cream and cake surpass cheesecake on American restaurant menus, says Flavor And The Menu, a magazine and website for restaurant chefs. The article points out that plain cheesecake is a blank canvas, waiting for an artistic or flavorful treatment—or both. The next time you plan to bake a conventional cheesecake, consider playing around…
Continue reading “Pimp Your Cheesecake: Enhancements, Garnishes & Sauces”
[1] Devil’s food cake and mint chip ice cream (photo Jennifer Davick | Southern Living). [2] Andes Mints (photo courtesy Sweet Factory). [3] After Eight Mints (photo courtesy After Eight | UK). We’ve been saving this recipe from Southern Living for our St. Patrick’s Day lead-up, when our recipes wear a tinge o’ the…
Continue reading “ST. PATRICK’S DAY RECIPE: Ice Cream Cake”
We have advocated olive oil cake before. But this is a variation with polenta (cornmeal) instead of white flour. Olive oil cake is a standard in some parts of Italy, substituting olive oil for butter as the fat. So is polenta cake, with a hearty crumb. Both are rustic, uniced cakes. When we first tried…
Continue reading “TIP OF THE DAY: Olive Oil Polenta Cake”
February 19th is National Chocolate Mint Day. You could grab a York Peppermint Pattie, or you could make this easy pie. It contains both white and semi-sweet chocolate chips and crushed peppermint candies, plus an Oreo cookie crumb crust. The active time is 30 minutes, but it takes 6 hours to set in the fridge.…
Continue reading “RECIPE: Chocolate Peppermint Pie For National Chocolate Mint Day”
