Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Hungarian Shortbread and Gooey Chocolate Cakes

It's not that I haven't been baking, it's just that I haven't been posting.  Somehow without the regular once a week deadline that I had when I was baking through Dorie Greenspan's Baking from my Home to Yours, I have fallen out of the rhythm of posting every week!  Then, too, to be honest, baking through Dorie's own recipes was much more exciting/interesting/wonderful than baking through a collection of other folks' recipes.

Today I'm catching up a bit.

I baked the Hungarian Shortbread in Baking with Julia and brought it to a potluck brunch with friends.  Highly complimented, not too sweet, pretty, easy to serve.  The technique was interesting in that you make the dough, chill it, then grate it.  I froze the dough and grated in the Cuisinarte which worked great and I used some delicious blackberry preserves which were given to us by house guests.  I think I could make this again--especially if I remember to make the dough ahead of time.




I am still playing catch-up with the last few recipes in Dorie's BFMHTY.  So last week I made her Gooey Chocolate Cakes which are made in muffin tins.  They are supposed to be served warm because they are gooey inside.  Dorie suggests using disposable aluminum tins which seem to be just the right size.  I made these to serve to a small group of people coming to our house for a meeting.  Anticipating that they would be really rich, I cut them in half, added a scoop of ice cream and a fresh blackberry.  Quite tasty!  Very chocolatey!  Really needed an ice cream friend on the plate!  

I now have just 10 recipes to bake from Baking from my Home to Yours.


This looks like a small portion, but actually it was just right.  Very satisfying chocolate, lovely ice cream, and a berry to finish it off!




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3 comments:

  1. Sweet and That's itMay 29, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    First of all: Merry Baking :-) 10 recipes are a lot: a sweet lot! But I'm sure you'll enjoy it :-)

    Lovely pictures: your bakings look delicious so delicious that I've almost bitten my screen!

    I had to catch up the White Loaf recipe and I was so pleased I did it. Lovely bread!

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  2. MarliseMay 29, 2012 at 9:08 PM

    OMG, only 10 recipes left from BFMHTY! Very impressive. I did not participate in the TWD-BFMHTY group, but I feel like you do that Dorie's recipes are more fun than the ones by others in BWJ.

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  3. FernboroughMay 30, 2012 at 9:26 PM

    "The Hungarian Shortbread and the Gooey Chocolate Cakes" sounds like a title for a children's book. The gooey chocolate cakes could be living a life of sloth and indolence, until they are threatened by something dire, perhaps a large white boar or other vain creature. Then the Hungarian Shortbread rolls into town and drills them into a coherent local militia. In the climactic battle, the gooey cakes throw themselves onto the boar, staining and smearing it into submission.

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