By Nick • February 25, 2010
I wasn’t shocked when The Pioneer Woman won last week’s poll. She’s pretty much the most popular thing since Barack (2008). The hard part though was deciding what to make out of her latest cookbook. I didn’t really want to make a meat heavy dish which eliminated about 75% of the recipes, so instead I [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Junk Food Junkies | Tagged brownie, brownie chocolate, brownies, butter, cakes, chocolate, chocolate brownie, cocoa powder, coffee, cookies, desserts, frosting recipe, homemade brownies, mocha brownies, mocha chocolate, mochas
By Nick • December 17, 2009
I made some kind of elaborate cookies this week on Macheesmo. Ok. I haven’t made anything ridiculously elaborate, but all the cookies so far have been filled or stuffed or layered or something that involves more than one bowl and a baking sheet.
So for the last cookie of the week, I wanted to do something [...]
Posted in baking, Easy Stuff, good food, Holidays | Tagged brown butter, butter, cookies, sugar cookies
By Nick • December 16, 2009
For each recipe during cookie week this week, I’m trying to keep a flavor or something from the previous day’s recipe. So I made peppermint whoopie pies yesterday to go with the peppermint bark on Monday. Today’s recipe uses the chocolate from the whoopie pies to make these ganache filled cookies!
Why did I organize the [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, good food, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged chocolate, cookies, ganache, honey, thumbprint cookies, vanilla
By Nick • December 15, 2009
It’s not very often that I make something pink here at Macheesmo. It’s not a color that I’m very familiar with. But it’s the holidays and so I’m willing to step outside my comfort zone and make something tasty and pink.
That’s how much I love you guys.
Of course, you don’t have to make the filling [...]
Posted in baking, Holidays, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged buttercream frosting, chocolate, cookies, peppermint, whoopie pies
By Nick • December 14, 2009
It’s cookie week here at Macheesmo because let’s face it, everybody is going to want to make and eat some cookies over the next few weeks. I’ve been saving and bookmarking recipes for awhile now, but if I made all the recipes that I wanted to try I would have to rename this site and [...]
Posted in baking, desserts, Holidays | Tagged candy, chocolate, cookies, Holidays, peppermint, peppermint bark, white chocolate
By Nick • November 4, 2009
The last time I was at Betsy’s house for a family event, there was an unassuming tin container of snickerdoodles off to the side. I passed by them a few times without too much thought, but later in the day I was hankering for a tiny snack and grabbed one as I walked by.
It stopped [...]
Posted in baking, desserts | Tagged cinnamon, cookies, desserts, how to make snickerdoodles, shortening, snickerdoodles
