Category: Baking

Making Buttermilk

If you’re like me, when you need 1/2 cup of buttermilk, you don’t want to buy a quart. So, make your own. The calculator below uses 1 tablespoon (15g) but I’ve seen others go as high as 2 tablespoons per cup. Seems a lot. In short, it’s 1 tablespoon...

Cheddar Biscuits

Some might call these knock-offs of a type of cheese biscuit served at a chain of mediocre seafood places, but I wouldn’t....

Dulce De Leche Brownies

We had a can of Dulce De Leche leftover after making Alfajores so decided to see what else we could make as part of our slow, on-going process of slowly killing my wife’s co-workers....

Brown Butter Banana Muffins

This started as a banana bread recipe because our bananas go from under-ripe to mush while we sleep. But in my on-going effort to be a slow-acting serial killer, I adapted this to being muffins so that we can get more of my wife’s co-workers at once. And…brown butter…....

Crumbly Topping

I’ve made and used this in a couple of different recipes lately. Apparently in some regions they’d call this a “streusel” which I consider more liquid than this. This can be frozen and then thawed and used as needed as this will probably make more than you need in...