His Results - Swedish Visiting Cake

I love my skillet. I've made a lot of different stuff in it too. It's a very versatile piece of equipment.




I thought this was awesome. I ate the entire thing to myself in less than 30 hours. As you can see I didn't decorate the top or any of that fancy stuff. It was incredibly tasty though and had an awesome texture. I was heavy on the vanilla extract (quality stuff) and used salted butter.

Yum!

Recipe 57 - Swedish Visiting Cake

I'm sure I've chosen a recipe from the Technicolor Kitchen before. This one looks good to me. We'll be making Swedish Visiting Cake.

We shall need:
200g superfine sugar + a little more for sprinkling
finely grated zest of 1 lemon
2 large eggs
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 vanilla bean, cut lengthwise, seeds scraped with the back of a knife – or use ½ teaspoon almond extract, as per the original recipe
140g all purpose flour
113g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
about ¼ cup sliced almonds (blanched or not)

I may skip the almonds I think!

His Results - Coconut Cookies

It's been a while since I used my food processor. It was good to get some more use out of it and it made these a breeze to make. It took longer rolling the balls in the coconut than all the rest of the process combined





I added a pinch of salt to these and used salted butter. They are really, really good! I can highly recommend the salt. They have a nice chewy exterior and a creamy soft interior. They are pretty much macaroons but with a slightly chewier outside. Good stuff!