Tiramisu has to be one of my all time favorite desserts, but I rarely ever get to have it. It’s usually one of the first things I think about making when I want to bake, but a lot of the ingredients aren’t exactly common items that you have lying around (e.g. lady fingers, mascarpone, and coffee liqueur). However, I finally managed to get my hands on Kahlua liqueur and Bailey’s Irish Cream (not being 21 makes that a hassle to get) and couldn’t wait to do something with it.
Now how sad is this? Most kids cannot wait to turn 21 in order to be able to legally purchase their own alcohol and go out drinking whenever they want, but I only want to turn 21 so I can actually go into a liquor store and buy ingredients. I wish they at least allowed you to go inside if you’re 18, but no. I’m not even allowed to see what my choices are. Luckily I have great parents that will go and buy it for me.
So now I had the liqueur just sitting in the pantry waiting to be used. What was I going to make? Considering I hadn’t originally planned on baking I didn’t prepare myself with the other ingredients required for tiramisu, but I did manage to find a tiramisu ice cream recipe that I had all the ingredients for. How perfect! So it’s not quite tiramisu, but it’s still something fun to make. I love ice cream and I love tiramisu so a combination of the two couldn’t be bad, right?
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I first made the cinnamon shortbread cookies because I had egg yolks left over from a previous recipe. However, when I made them again I completely forgot about that and ended up with two egg whites left over. Having forgotten that the royal icing I use would have used up the egg whites, I saved them overnight instead. I didn’t want to risk using old egg whites in icing (bacteria and all) so I had to crack open a few more eggs, leaving me with two yolks.
So there I was with two eggs, separated and stored in the fridge, just waiting to be used. Wasting perfectly good eggs wouldn’t be sensible so what was I going to do with them? Make pumpkin bread of course!
I absolutely love pumpkin bread and a recipe that I previously tried a few months ago had been a complete let down so I definitely wanted to give it another go. I searched through the usual food blogs I go to and finally found a recipe at Genesis of a Cook.
Now, not to be a plug whore or anything, but that site is freaking amazing. Everything Tarah makes always looks sooo good and she is constantly updating every few days with more tantalizing recipes. The site basically becomes one big tease when combined with photos of her food. How could you not fall for making something?
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Happy late Fourth of July! I don’t particularly enjoy the food that goes along with this holiday, being vegetarian and all, but I definitely wasn’t going to let a holiday pass without using it as an excuse to bake! My dad requested the cinnamon shortbread cookies so I had to make some. I had originally planned on a delicious white chocolate blueberry tart, but I couldn’t find our tart pan and wasn’t about to waste money on another so the cookies were the only thing I made.
The one that reads, “Hola Amigo” was done by my sister around the time when I had grown extremely tired of decorating and my sister had wanted to have some fun with icing. I always forget that decorating is only fun at the very beginning when everything is new and the creative juices are flowing and then it all becomes repetitive, dull, and time consuming. Ha! I make it sound so awful, but it’s really not that bad. I swear!
Just out of the oven! I let my sister cut these ones because I was too busy decorating.
Starting to pipe on an outline. I really need to improve on this because I tend to have wobbly lines and my end points are never very clean. That is why you’ll see white points at the end of a lot of lines. I guess it’s fine considering this was only my second time decorating cookies.
My messy work station. I used Martha Stewart’s method of putting the thinned out icing in squeeze bottles. It was substantially easier than the last time and there wasn’t any mess from gravity causing the thin icing to ooze out of the frosting tips.
The end! There were a ton of cookies in the end even though a lot were eaten before and during decorating.
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