A Guinness and millet based bread enhanced through the judicious use of molasses and chocolate – my latest foray into bread baking. I was actually aiming to make a dark sourdough rye for my mother on Mother’s Day, but I could not find any rye flour at the local supermarket. Which is, in my humble…
Tag: Baking
Sausage Bread
I took a Guinness based pizza dough, loaded it up with sausage, and coiled it into a bread loaf. Not too shabby, although, next time I might leave it in its jelly roll form and bake it in a long loaf pan, instead of coiling it all together. It took about two hours to bake…
Cheese Empanadas
There are many, many types and forms of empanadas. At its most basic an empanada just means something enveloped in bread or a wheat dough. When I envision empanadas, I think back to the empanadas of my childhood – the light, crisply fried pockets of melted cheese, dusted in powdered sugar – the hallmarks of…
Coconut Cake
Another dinner party. Another cake. A light, fluffy coconut cake with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate ganache filling. The coconut cake is one of my Mom’s favorite recipes, and the one and only time I attempted to bake this particular cake, prior to this, resulted in one of my most memorable baking disasters. My family…
The Ephemeral Bee 