His results - Banana and Lemon Cake

The cake was good, the frosting was a bit much for me.



I don't know what else to say. Sometimes life's just too much. Do what you can. If you can at least put up the pictures and write a sentence I guess you're not doing too bad.

His Results - Potato Chip Cookies

I really wanted to use Seabrook's crisps for these cookies but I couldn't find ready salted ones in the few shops I checked. I managed to pick up these unsalted ones though and added a couple of hearty pinches of sea salt flakes.

The mixture was really easy to put together. I rolled the balls of dough in sugar and then mushed some smashed up crisps and black sea salt flakes on the top of each.



They looked beautiful like that I thought. I love the texture of the sugar coated exterior. The first batch I cooked pretty much as instructed, checking a little earlier than suggested and they were pretty overdone. The second lot I baked for ten minutes and they were about perfect.

These are really delicious. I gave some to a few friends and they agreed. Don't skimp on the salt!

Recipe 71 - Potato Chip Cookies

I like sweet and salty foods. Both apart and together. Especially together. We've cooked plenty of them and it's time for another: potato chip cookies, recipe from the Smitten Kitchen.

We'll be needing

Cookie
225 grams unsalted butter, at room temperature
200 grams granulated sugar, divided
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon table salt
1/2 cup chopped and toasted pecans (not for me!)
1/2 cup finely crushed potato chips
250 grams plain flour

Potato chip salt finish (optional)
1 tablespoon crushed potato chips
1 1/2 teaspoons flaked sea salt

His Results - Orange Tea Cake

I wasn't really in the mood for baking today. It's a pretty soothing activity though. I baked at my own speed and finished well ahead of her.

I didn't get any pictures until it came out of the oven. Looked pretty promising.


It tastes nice too. It has a slightly bitter streak because of all the zest I put in. Not all that sweet which is unsuprising given the amount of sugar in the recipe. It's lovely and moist today, hopefully it will be as good tomorrow when I take the majority of it in to work.

His Results - Supernatural Brownies

I have had a really tiring week. I'm worn out and have no energy to write this.


These brownies were a little ray of light though. They really were delicious.


My auntie gave me this pan for my birthday last year. The recipe said to cut off the edge part but that's totally unecessary: the edges were great too and the textural contrast was nice.


I was pleased to have plenty of edge. I can certainly see me making these again.

Recipe 69 - Supernatural Brownies

I've had this in my recipe bookmarks folder for nearly two years now. I'm not sure why I've never made them apart from having a huge stack of bookmarks. This week I couldn't decide which recipe to choose so I asked a friend to think of a number between 1 and 50. He chose 32. The recipe for Supernatural Brownies, posted here on the Brownie Project and adapted from Nick Malgieri was the 32nd bookmark in the folder so away we go!

We'll need:
226g unsalted butter
226g bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
4 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
200g granulated sugar
180g firmly packed dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
120g all-purpose flour

His Results - Sweet Revenge's ''Pure'' Cupcakes & Buttercream

We made some batter

Baked it

Then made some frosting
And piled that on top

And it was good!

The texture on these was great when they were fresh but they went a bit hard really quickly. A lot quicker than most cakes. I enjoyed these but I used really nice Madagascan vanilla. Since the taste of it is so prominant I highly recommend you go for the good stuff!