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capri0mni(Note: I actually focus my celebrating on the New Year/my birthday [the 12th-18th of January])
Ever since I was a kid, I've loved to make up recipes in my head -- even though I don't have the means to actually make any of them ... So would you? If I post my ideas here, would you try converting them to recipes and making them (and tell me how they turned out)? No need to send me the results; I'd just like to know they saw the light of day and the dark of someone's tummy.
I am an omnivore with no dietary restrictions -- but PLEASE feel free to adapt to vegan or gluten-free, or whatever...
I forget the details, but it was simple -- it was melting together a full bag of marshmallows and a couple squares of unsweetened baking chocolate, pouring the result into a pie shell, and chilling until set. Mother probably added butter to the marshmallows *checks* Yup-- Rice Krispy Treats [tm] call for 3 tablespoons per 10 oz bag of 'mallows...
Start with the premise behind the Gelatin Poke Cake, but instead of all those pre-fab flavors, using unflavored gelatin and juice sweetened to taste? Such as:
White cake with lemonade, or
Chocolate with sweet black cherry, or
Spice cake with sweet cider, or
Yellow cake with cranberry?
And why not do a 2-layer cake, with a different flavor in each?
And if it's a grownup party, would this work with bead and wine, to b here served with soft cheese?
You see how my mind works ...
I love a good peanut butter cookie (I even like the dry, cakey, texture that annoys some others), but mixing things up a bit never hurt. So here are some riffs I've dreamed up:
Swap almond butter for peanut butter (and I just learned today that Jif now makes a processed style almond butter -- haven't tried it yet). Optional: add grated orange zest.
Using the original peanut butter batter, press into a square cake pan to make bars; stir into that batter any one of the following:
Crumbled chocolate /"creme" sandwich cookies,
Candied ginger (peanut+ginger=YUM!)
Raisins, chocolate chips, sunflower seeds
Somehow add ginger to the standard cookie-- either ground ginger to the batter or top with chopped candied,
Ever since I was a kid, I've loved to make up recipes in my head -- even though I don't have the means to actually make any of them ... So would you? If I post my ideas here, would you try converting them to recipes and making them (and tell me how they turned out)? No need to send me the results; I'd just like to know they saw the light of day and the dark of someone's tummy.
I am an omnivore with no dietary restrictions -- but PLEASE feel free to adapt to vegan or gluten-free, or whatever...
I forget the details, but it was simple -- it was melting together a full bag of marshmallows and a couple squares of unsweetened baking chocolate, pouring the result into a pie shell, and chilling until set. Mother probably added butter to the marshmallows *checks* Yup-- Rice Krispy Treats [tm] call for 3 tablespoons per 10 oz bag of 'mallows...
Start with the premise behind the Gelatin Poke Cake, but instead of all those pre-fab flavors, using unflavored gelatin and juice sweetened to taste? Such as:
White cake with lemonade, or
Chocolate with sweet black cherry, or
Spice cake with sweet cider, or
Yellow cake with cranberry?
And why not do a 2-layer cake, with a different flavor in each?
And if it's a grownup party, would this work with bead and wine, to b here served with soft cheese?
You see how my mind works ...
I love a good peanut butter cookie (I even like the dry, cakey, texture that annoys some others), but mixing things up a bit never hurt. So here are some riffs I've dreamed up:
Swap almond butter for peanut butter (and I just learned today that Jif now makes a processed style almond butter -- haven't tried it yet). Optional: add grated orange zest.
Using the original peanut butter batter, press into a square cake pan to make bars; stir into that batter any one of the following:
Crumbled chocolate /"creme" sandwich cookies,
Candied ginger (peanut+ginger=YUM!)
Raisins, chocolate chips, sunflower seeds
Somehow add ginger to the standard cookie-- either ground ginger to the batter or top with chopped candied,
