Stella Parks's Blog, page 11

How to Perfect Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies, One Ingredient at a Time

These vegan chocolate chip cookies are chewy and crisp, with fudgy centers loaded with chocolate, and a butterscotchy flavor. With dry malt extract to add a hint of toasty, malted richness, they're everything a chocolate chip cookie should be, no eggs or butter required.
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A Creamy, Fluffy Chocolate Frosting Without Eggs or Powdered Sugar

If you're not keen on the grit of powdered-sugar frostings or the texture of a whipped ganache, this eggless chocolate frosting may just become your new favorite.
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Why I Love My Food Processor, and 20 Recipes to Prove It

A food processor can do so much more than shred cheese, chop vegetables, and pur��e fruits. It's a phenomenal tool for lightning-fast gluten development in bagels, pulverizing freeze-dried fruit into a fine powder, keeping shortbread-style doughs cool, and making homemade brownie mix from ground chocolate.
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Toasted Oats ���n��� Spice Make Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream So Nice

With toasted oats infused into a brown sugar ice cream and steeped with vanilla and cinnamon, this ice cream has all the allure of an oatmeal cookie—plus crunchy oat clusters, toasted pecans, and whatever dried fruit you like best (Team Cherry, here).
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How to Make Your Own Brownie Mix, for...Emergencies

Use your favorite dark chocolate and Dutch cocoa powder for a totally homemade, shelf-stable brownie mix that bakes up more flavorful, rich, and chewy than anything you can buy in stores.
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German Buttercream Is Vanilla Pudding Whipped With Butter. What���s Not to Like?

This old-school frosting combines whipped butter with a thick vanilla custard, which gives it flavor, sweetness, and stability all at the same time. While it tastes like the creamiest vanilla soft serve, it's a buttercream with more than enough structure to support even the tallest layer cake. Its light simplicity is a natural match for dense and nutty European tortes, while that same fluffiness makes it equally well-suited to even a down-home Texas sheet cake.
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Make and Bake This Chocolate Cake in Your Cast Iron Skillet

You don't even need a mixer to whip up this chocolate cake, just melt the butter in a cast iron skillet, stir in the remaining ingredients, and bake! It's super dark and delicious, topped with a two-ingredient milk chocolate frosting that's mixed together by hand.
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The Best Milk Chocolate for Baking (That Won���t Break the Bank)

Hating on milk chocolate is a trite clich��, especially now that supermarkets stock so much more than the candy-sweet bars of our childhood. These eight milk chocolates can be found in stores or online and range from 26 to 48% cocoa solids, giving them a strong but mellow chocolate flavor and a creamy consistency.
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A Different Kind of Forever: Remembering My Grandmother���s Kitchen

Food was central to her philosophy of love, but so far as I know, my grandmother didn't own a single cookbook. She introduced me to baking not as an art or even a science, but as a sort of alchemical process whereby lowly ingredients—Jell-O instant pudding, packaged marshmallows—were simply transformed.
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Texas Sheet Cake Forever

Texas sheet cake is a full slab of mellow chocolate cake that���s literally doused in hot fudge, then buried under an avalanche of toasted pecans. Baked in a half sheet pan, it���s clearly designed to feed a crowd, but it keeps so well that a small family could nibble on it for a week. In short, it deserves a place in any baker's repertoire.
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