The Art Of Baking

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I wanted to make something savory earlier this week and I ended up finding one of my pretzel recipes I haven't reviewed yet. Its a pretzel recipe that is different from most because it kicks out the yeast and brings in the baking powder.Its a good choice when you don't have yeast in your kitchen and you want delicious pretzels.The powder does its job well as a raising agent in these pretzel;however it will not be able to give the overall flavor of yeast. To help these pretzels out with lack of yeast flavor you give it a great spice blend and topping.For my batch I threw in Italian spice into the dough and then added spice and garlic into the sauce.Its basically a preference on what you want, just like a pizza.I always recommend to taste test your sauce and play around with the flavors before adding them. After making your perfect sauce you always have to remember to re coat your pretzels throughout baking. I re coated these pretzels twice and it does make a d...

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 Kashi, The Seven Whole Grain Company was giving out free samples through the mail to whoever filled out the information on their site.The samples were snatched up fast online and after a while of waiting, we received our Blackberry Graham bar.It resembled much like a fig newton bar in texture and appearance,while being slightly dry.The company was even more generous by also sending a freebie coupon with it for one box of any choice Kashi Bar. The ones you see here are the one's we got free, which are called Peanut Peanut Butter Bars .Each Kashi box has 6 bars in total and these specific bars are 150 calories each.However don't let the calories scare you off because these bars are better for you then other granola bars.They include seven whole grains, which they let you know in the company name and they only use nature ingredients in their products. Kashi bars also include fiber,protein and zero trans fats.The bars also have a bonus.I can actually read,pronounce and...

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I think these are the best peanut butter cookies so far and their actually completely different in texture and flavor compared to other recipes. They still have that great peanut butter flavor, but more of it.This is because the recipe ditches the butter and lets the peanut butter take the reins.Wonderfully, the peanut butter does really well all on its own.It gave this extra creaminess and moisture that you don't seem to get with butter recipes. I don't know how it does it,but it creates a better all around cookie.Its chewier,creates more moisture and the cookies seem to stay like that overtime. If it covers all those three elements I just have to give it two thumbs up. The only issues I seem to have with this recipe is you have to make sure to crisscross the cookies. I'm not going to give this recipe a bad rating for that because it was myself that created this issue.This is because in my first batch I ended up forgetting and ended up with cookies that didn...

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Well Halloween has passed and now its already jumped into November.Its a brand new month and I've already started the baking.This time I actually had to bake so that I wouldn't waste any leftover homemade icing.So I ended up making Martha Stewart's ideal sugar cookies again and made some cute flower shapes.They worked out so well that I had tons of creative fun making fancy designs.I even used my very own icing bottles to help out with piping and drizzling designs.I found the bottles were actually much easier to handle then any pipping bag I've used and I think I'm officially reformed to it. I still will keep my piping bags for back-up, but these little bottles are ten times better.I love that you can easily change around everything and I had less pain in my arm when I was done piping all 48 cookies.These little bottles helped create some really simple fancy designs and I'm excited to use them for Christmas Holiday treats. These are my favorite s...