5 Days of Frosting: Key Lime
Every night this week, Jack comes in the door wondering out loud “ What’s today’s frosting?” I give him a taste and all is right with the world for 15 minutes while he tastes silently, wearing his thoughtful face. Its been such fun to hand him a cookie or a cupcake with some new frosting on it. Weee! He hasn’t always loved them. He is not a dark chocolate fan, but he tries them all. Dillon is having great fun, Nate also not a dark chocolate fan still gives each flavor a whirl. I...
Read More5 Days of Frosting: Chocolate Ganache
I watch the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten with worshipping eyes. I really love her laid back approach and she doesn’t beat me up for using “good” vanilla when I could be using “great” vanilla. She reminds me of my Aunt Poots who never got in a fluff about anything. Love you, Aunt Poots! This is Ina’s recipe for Chocolate Ganache easy and fast, just the thing for day 4 of 5 days of frosting, when ones attention begins to waver and the refrigerator is filling up with buckets of...
Read MoreHappy 21 Dillon: Birthday Cake Epiphany
Our Dillon-baby turned 21 on the 22nd of July. I was deep in testing the new website and by deep I mean fixing stuff I had no idea how to fix…Murg! So his birthday post like his birthday prep was a bit waylayed. It was a great day even though, Jack took the day off and I left my wounded website for the day. It got fixed as you know, you are reading it now and its not all that broken. Weee! Jack and I snuck out early in the morning to have breakfast and talk about our oldest being…so old....
Read More5 Days of Frosting: Sour Cream Chocolate Frosting
I just decided this has GOT to be my favorite frosting. Its sweet, tangy, deep with flavor, a little mocha going on. Here is where I got the recipe to start with. Chocolate Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting Milk Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting: 6-oz milk chocolate 4 tbsp butter 1/2 cup sour cream 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 – 2 cups confectioners’ sugar Melt together chocolate and butter in a microwave-safe bowl. Allow to cool for about 5 minutes, or until close...
Read More5 Days of Frosting: Billy’s Chocolate Buttercream
The ginger thin cookies with pink buttercream frosting went over so well for Monday Night Movies: Joe vs The Volcano doing the frosting and sandwich cookies only…so I can make more. This time chocolate butter cream frosting courtesy of Billy’s Bakery of NYC Billy’s Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Yield Makes enough for 30 cupcakes Ingredients 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 12 ounces semisweet chocolate, melted and cooled 3...
Read More5 Days of Frosting: Basic Buttercream
Can you believe it? Even though I have NEVER made frosting ( successfully) before. I found more than 5 recipes for frosting in my recipe files? Well I guess not SO unbelievable. I LOVE the IDEA of making frosting. My mom made frosting often. I tried it a few times when my boys were young. In recent years I have just bought the tub of goo. The boys and I were very happy with that, yet I found myself complaining a lot about my inability to make it myself. Its suppose to be simple right? Putting...
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I, jodiann cates, resolve to stop complaining about my lack of frosting skills. I either have what it takes to make the simplest of recipes…frosting! OR I am a failure, must buy 16 tons of frosting in a tub, and shut my mouth. I have bought 4 bags of powdered sugar measuring in at a total of 5 plus POUNDS, 4 lbs of Cream Cheese and 5 lbs of butter as well. I have located my vanilla and cocoa powders. Yes, plural! Doesn’t everyone keep 3 kinds of powdered chocolate on hand? DO I have...
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Welcome to life without the instruction book, cooking without looking at the recipe, and straight up NERD worship. I married one, I birthed two and happily call myself one. My heroes have always been nerdests...Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Nikola Tesla, Winston Churchill, and foremost my Dad. Come Ride The Arrow with me awhile.
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