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1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
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Tonight going to eat some Turkey Hill Whoopie Pie ice cream.0
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Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies that are so popular at Christmas time... both from the work bake sale0 -
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes
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Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: salted caramel cupcake
Day 14: I wasn't feeling well today but I decided to pull it together and try the dark chocolate whiskey cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate frosting.
So the cake was good but just a tad denser than I like. It had pretty good flavor but could have used more whiskey. The icing also had good flavor but I didn't care for the whipped texture-- it was pretty much like frosting with whipped cream. But it had a stronger whiskey flavor so that was nice. All in all I don't think this was a repeat but it gave me some ideas for possibly modifying my tried and true chocolate cake recipe.0 -
ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Day 14: I wasn't feeling well today but I decided to pull it together and try the dark chocolate whiskey cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate frosting.
So the cake was good but just a tad denser than I like. It had pretty good flavor but could have used more whiskey.
Preaching to the choir (despite not having tasted the cake obviously!)The icing also had good flavor but I didn't care for the whipped texture-- it was pretty much like frosting with whipped cream. But it had a stronger whiskey flavor so that was nice. All in all I don't think this was a repeat but it gave me some ideas for possibly modifying my tried and true chocolate cake recipe.
How did the Salted Caramel Buttercream compare? I know you tasted and reported just after baking, but curious if you've had another since then. I'm enjoying following your baking experiments as I am sure many others are.
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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »Day 14: I wasn't feeling well today but I decided to pull it together and try the dark chocolate whiskey cupcake with whipped whiskey chocolate frosting.
So the cake was good but just a tad denser than I like. It had pretty good flavor but could have used more whiskey.
Preaching to the choir (despite not having tasted the cake obviously!)The icing also had good flavor but I didn't care for the whipped texture-- it was pretty much like frosting with whipped cream. But it had a stronger whiskey flavor so that was nice. All in all I don't think this was a repeat but it gave me some ideas for possibly modifying my tried and true chocolate cake recipe.
How did the Salted Caramel Buttercream compare? I know you tasted and reported just after baking, but curious if you've had another since then. I'm enjoying following your baking experiments as I am sure many others are.
I haven't had a second one but I'm planning to have one tomorrow so I'll let you know. I might try drizzling a little extra caramel sauce on top.0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
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Day 14: SCTC, Raisin Bread Pudding
All out of bread pudding now, so I'll have to come up with some other festive treat.0 -
The cupcakes look really good Amber, I'm interested in how the buttercream came out too.
Sorry haven't been real active been a strange 10 days or so. Out of all the Jeni ice creams my favorites are Whiskey & pecans, Rumball, Whiskey Eggnog, and Pumpkin w/Amaretti cookies. I'm very sad I finished the rumball last night.
Today's been lots of baking with more tomorrow. I'll post pics tomorrow0 -
Got some of this at Target today and decided to give it a whirl...
They're pretty good. Definitely has that eggnog flavor! I also made some fudge, and I put some of the leftover unrefrigerated (hot) fudge on my cookie. Talk about a mouthgasm. Warm eggnog cookie + semi-hot fudge = /drool0 -
Today I was a big Fatty! I had a whole bar of Ghiradelli Intense Dark Toffee Interlude & a whole bar of Lindt White Coconut. I also had a Starbucks drink & ice cream.0
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »The cupcakes look really good Amber, I'm interested in how the buttercream came out too.
Sorry haven't been real active been a strange 10 days or so. Out of all the Jeni ice creams my favorites are Whiskey & pecans, Rumball, Whiskey Eggnog, and Pumpkin w/Amaretti cookies. I'm very sad I finished the rumball last night.
Today's been lots of baking with more tomorrow. I'll post pics tomorrow
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No Jeni's in my area, and no idea of the breadth of their flavor options, but methinks I am detecting a theme in your choices . . .
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes)
Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: salted caramel cupcake
Day 14: dark chocolate whiskey cupcake
Day 15: salted caramel cupcake-- just as good as the first time.
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GiveMeCoffee wrote: »The cupcakes look really good Amber, I'm interested in how the buttercream came out too.
Sorry haven't been real active been a strange 10 days or so. Out of all the Jeni ice creams my favorites are Whiskey & pecans, Rumball, Whiskey Eggnog, and Pumpkin w/Amaretti cookies. I'm very sad I finished the rumball last night.
Today's been lots of baking with more tomorrow. I'll post pics tomorrow
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No Jeni's in my area, and no idea of the breadth of their flavor options, but methinks I am detecting a theme in your choices . . .
Yea there is a theme in my choices
There isn't one in my area either, supposed to have a place sort of close that will be carrying some but since I live in a beach community their off season hours suck. Luckily you can order them online which I can't afford to do often but it's a nice treat. http://shop.jenis.com/ice-creams/0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
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Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies
Day 16: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, a snickerdoodle...
(why do I feel like I'm a day ahead)?0 -
Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies
Day 16: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, a snickerdoodle...
(why do I feel like I'm a day ahead)?
I misquoted one of mine...so now I feel like a day behind..0 -
Day 16: Homemade fudge & Ben & Jerry's chocolate therapy0
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]1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
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