The Art Of Baking

Happy Easter Everyone! Hope everyone is having a great long weekend while spending time with friends and family.My weekend has so far been pretty good and I was lucky enough to get Friday and Saturday off to enjoy a delicious turkey dinner for Easter. I also was able to fit in one recipe test for the next chapter of Classic Snacks and I'm excited to show all of you very soon.Well anyways,I hope everyone is enjoying my reviews so far and be sure to enjoy this weekend it will go by in an flash.It's already Sunday!

Since the Homemade Oreo's were such a hit I made a decision to stay in the cookie chapter for one more recipe.I chose a recipe based on the store bought cookie called "Nutter Butters" ,which is a treat I haven't even tried since its sold in the states.Based on this homemade version they are a peanut butter shortbread sandwich cookie shaped as a peanut filled with peanut butter frosting.I thought this was a really cute idea for a cookie and I knew I had to test out this recipe.Also, I thought it be fun to not feel to worried about comparing the homemade to original.So this time I'll let all you readers and baker's see if they meet the challenge. So far I have asked my face book page followers if they have tired Nutter Butters before and  I have received pretty positive reply towards the treat.So I'm hoping they will maybe try out the recipe as well and give me there feedback. Casey the author hasn't failed me so far with her homemade...

Don't you think Cookies a re the perfect choice for the beginning of C lassic S nacks Made F r om Scratch cook book ? Well I definitely think so ! This cha pter includes some pretty creative homemade recipes such as Animal crackers,Mallomars, Nutter butters and even the beloved Oreo cookie. So now that I have mentioned just a few of these treats.How do we na rrow down what we really want to tes t out . Well I think the best way is to look for the key compo nents, which are affordability , difficulty level and favorites.So with these tips I cho se to make the homemade Oreo ,which is such an iconic cookie that it must of been a big challenge for the author to recreate . These are a cookie I rarely ind ulg e in and are always a special treat .So w ith these versions I know they will have lower ca lories and none of those pesky preservatives to the original. However we still have to find out if these homemade versions really meet the challenge of the famo...

Classic Snacks Made F rom Scratch is a cookbook written by Casey Bar Be r and published by the Uly sess Press . Classic snacks i s inspired to make homemade versions of all our favorite brand name treats and even encourage readers to implement their own creative idea. Casey BarBer has taken on a big challenge to find out exactly how all these treats tick and develop a recipe that everyone can make.I love t he challenge and creativ ity that is found in this book ,which is the main reason I took the opportunity to review for my readers.I am super excited to see how the recipes turn out and It definitely will be a fun review for me and my taste testers.I hope everyone is as interested as I am and will tune in on the recipe testing.Enjoy!  (I received this cookbook free for review and all my opinions share throughout this review are my own.)

We have reached the final chapter of Petite Treats that is dedicated to the "Fancy Stuff" that will definitely test your skill and expertise in the kitchen. Some of the recipes included in this chapter are canoli's,eclair's, mini cheesecake's and bear claw's. Don't those all sound so delicious and creative that you just want to test them all out.Well before you dive into this chapter you might want to hear my experiences with "Fancy Stuff" . In this chapter, I have learned that all these recipes need a lot of patients and the ability to cope with very  fragile treats.That being said I don't recommend the reader to start making any treats from this chapter until they test out recipes throughout this cookbook.Trust me with saying this because I have reviewed one recipe from each chapter and I still had a difficult time when I tested out a recipe from "Fancy Stuff" .I learned they were no where kidding about how this chapter ...