My cupboards became full of pumpkin-y ingredients this fall: pumpkin pie filling, canned pumpkin, pumpkin butter. It was time for a week of pumpkin desserts. This is the first one my made, and also my favorite. Earl Grey tea is a common ingredient that I use because I love it so much, and it worked beautifully for this recipe. The original recipe called for Chai frosting, but I chose Earl Grey instead, and goodness gracious do I want to eat it every day. (more…)
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Pumpkin cupcakes with Earl Grey buttercream frosting
Recipe: Dessert for Two's Pumpkin Chai Cupcakes
Total time: 1 hour
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pumpkin puree, Earl Grey tea
Glazed Doughnut Muffins (Duffins!)
Recipe: My Baking Addiction's Glazed Doughnut Muffins
Total time: 40 minutes
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: nutmeg, cinnamon
What is the best way to reward coworkers who help you finish a project on time? Homemade baked goods.
I was charged with creating a “family tree” of employees. Should it be digital? Should it be on a wall in the office? Should we have people’s pictures, should it include their titles? How do we indicate role and department? How can new hires get a feel for who people are and what they do? It took weeks to collect all the photos and get the tree designed and printed. Then it was up to me to figure out how on earth I could get my coworkers to fill out their “leaf” with their name and what they do.
Naturally, baked goods came to the rescue. In my email plea for expedient participation, I noted that the first 10 people to return their filled-out leaf to me would receive something homemade. And it worked! Glazed doughnut muffins, like a denser Krispy Kreme doughnut, came to the rescue. (more…)
Chai Snickerdoodles
Recipe: My Madison Bistro's Chai Snickerdoodles
Total time: 20 minutes
Ease: easy
Unusual ingredients: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom, cream of tartar, shortening
These cookies were a total blast to make. I’d recently invested in some very fresh cardamom, fennel, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger – all in preparation for a few chai recipes I’d been saving!
The dough for these cookies is made from a more traditional snickerdoodle recipe. The trick to the chai flavor is rolling them before baking in all of the spices mixed in with some sugar.
