Showing posts with label baking recipe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking recipe. Show all posts

Saturday, October 12, 2013

It's Zucchini, So It HAS To Be Good For You, Right?

Zucchini bread may or may not be good for you but it sure is good, especially when I get to use my favorite kitchen appliance. Again, the Ninja.


Again, I LOVE it. Those are huge chunks of zucchini and it chops it up as small as possible to mix into the batter perfectly. 



You don't want it too chunky or too soupy to the point where your bread doesn't rise but use your discretion on how fine you want to chop it. It takes about two seconds to get it to that consistency then you just fold it into your batter. 

For the batter, I found a recipe that was super easy to follow, on my phone! I loved the feature it had to check off ingredients as you add them, I just had to show you. 


Now the recipe calls for walnuts, but I actually found it quite tasty to add a can of mixed nuts. Just dump a can in the ninja and chop them as fine as you want and fold that into your batter as well. Or, make it without nuts, whichever you prefer. 


Most zucchini bread recipes may call for an hour baking time, but if you making them this small it won't be that long, maybe 30-40 minutes. However, I'm going to warn you about using a pan like this. I assume they'd come out all cute and in one piece, kind of like this. 



Boy was I wrong. I never use non stick spray in my pan because it's already nonstick. I ruined part of it from excess spray and I have had luck with it so far. However, this bread stuck like glue. It may be safe just to use a porcelain dish and cut them up. They were difficult in the end, but totally worth it. 





Sunday, June 9, 2013

Two Pretzels were walking down the street, one was assaulted

I thought I hit a jackpot with these babies but making the impossible possible, I struck even more gold with caramel pretzel cupcakes. Not only that, I got to use my favorite gadget in the world to make the frosting.

I give you, the Kitchen Aid Mixer.


Yes, I've fallen in love with an appliance. If you bake, you understand. Not only that, the frosting could not have been easier to make. All it is is butter, powdered sugar and chopped up pretzels. The pretzel frosting pretty much makes the cupcake. Not only that, but I put a Werther's caramel chew in the middle of each one. 


I didn't get the gooey-consistency center like I expected but it turned out even better. It created a caramel coating on the bottom of the cupcake that had just enough candy crunch but not enough to where you feel like your teeth are going to fall out. 

And for the grand finale...


They went over pretty well, to say the least and I will be making them again. Perfect combo of sweet and salty and I'm kind of proud of myself for whipping this up on just a hunch and a trip to Aldi.