Found 8 blog entries tagged as Baking.

These Baileys Irish Cream chocolate chip cookies are such a fun dessert and would fit right in for St. Patrick’s Day in Palm Beach County. Baileys Irish Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies are luscious chocolate chip cookies with a hint of Irish cream and cocoa flavor. Chewy and soft on the inside with a slightly crisp outside!

Imagine biting into a perfect chocolate chip cookie and then there is a hint of light flavor that you do not normally expect in a chocolate chip cookie.

Baileys Irish Cream Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

½ cup butter

½ cup granulated sugar

½ cup brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

½ cup Bailey's Irish Cream

2 ¼ cups cake flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 package semi-sweet…

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The gingerbread man has become tantamount with Christmas. Aside from candy canes and hot chocolate, there is one food that has a bit of a question mark during the holiday season – gingerbread. Have you ever wondered this how this delicious food became such a popular winter favorite?

Old-fashioned laws restricted ginger as it was used medicinally. According to Epicure & Culture, gingerbread was sacred. The only time it was allowed to be made by the public was during Christmas and Easter. Gingerbread was a restricted food however at the holidays these regulations were relaxed, and people could use ginger and bake gingerbread in their own at home. It was an incredibly special treat! 

Palm Beach County here is a remarkably simple, gingerbread recipe…

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The holidays allow for a little wiggle room in your Palm Beach County bikini diet so try something not too sweet yet decadent. Make Christmas a “calorie-free” zone and indulge. New Year’s Resolutions will be here before you know it.

Christmas pudding is a type of pudding traditionally served as part of the British or Irish Christmas dinner. Many households have their own recipes for Christmas pudding, some have been handed down through families for generations. The recipe brings together what traditionally were expensive or luxurious ingredients, making a gift in and of itself. Try this white chocolate Macadamia nut bread pudding recipe this holiday season.

Ingredients:

- 0.25 cup water

- 1.33333 cup cups sugar, divided

- 0.25 cup plus…

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When you live in an area as beautiful as Palm Beach County most do not wish to spend a lot of time in a hot kitchen. Holidays come with obligatory sweet treats and cookie exchanges. So, if you are more interested in getting outside in the gorgeous weather and playing, tennis, golf, going to the beach or something else here is a 5-ingredient peppermint bark to make at home. Wrap it up with a pretty bow and you are done!

This layered peppermint bark is a delectable blend of semisweet chocolate, white chocolate, and peppermint. Semisweet, milk chocolate or dark chocolate can be used to your preferred liking.

Ingredients:

- 8 ounces high-quality semisweet chocolate, broken into pieces

- 2 teaspoons canola oil, divided

- ½ teaspoon…

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Step outside your favorite holiday cookie comfort zone and try the recipe that Southeast Floridians have selected as the favorite cookie to serve at holidays.  The holiday cookie fan favorite is the Key Lime Pie cookie, or the Key Lime Pie sandwich cookies filled with a tangy cream. The cookies are soft, buttery graham cookies with a  tangy key lime-flavored icing on top or cream in the middle.

Picking a favorite cookie seems like a nearly impossible task, but somehow every state in the US has managed to have a different cookie listed as their state’s top cookie. Some remain loyal to the original chocolate chip cookie and sugar cookie while other states prefer a nontraditional cookie.  Give the nontraditional holiday cookie that Floridians enjoy. …

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The gingerbread man has become synonymous with Christmas. But how did cookies come to be such an important symbol of Christmas?  Gingerbread was a restricted food, laws restricted its baking to guildsman, however at the holidays these regulations were relaxed, and people could bake gingerbread in their own at home, making it a very special once a year treat!

 

Palm Beach County give this very simple gingerbread recipe a try.

 

Ingredients:  

1  roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury™ refrigerated sugar cookie dough  

3  tablespoons mild molasses

¼  cup all-purpose flour  

¾  teaspoon ground cinnamon 

¾  teaspoon ground ginger 

½  teaspoon ground allspice 

¼  teaspoon ground cloves 

Steps: 

In large bowl, crumble cookie…

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Picking a favorite cookie seems like a nearly impossible task, but somehow every state in the US has managed to have a different cookie listed as their state’s top cookie. Some remain loyal to the original chocolate chip cookie and sugar cookie while other states prefer a nontraditional cookie.

Floridians have chosen their favorite cookie to serve at holidays is the Key Lime Pie cookie or the Key Lime Pie sandwich cookies filled with a tangy cream. The cookies are a soft buttery graham cookie with a key lime-flavored icing on top or cream in the middle.

Key Lime Pie Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

Graham Cookie: 1 Cup of unsalted butter (room temperature), 1 ½ cup of brown sugar, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 2 cups of graham cracker crumbs, 1…

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Let your inner baker shine and try out one of our recipes for the perfect homemade cupcakes. 

The Perfect Vanilla Cupcake:

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients:

2 sticks of butter (softened)

1 ½ cup of sugar

3 large eggs

1 tbsp of pure vanilla extract

2 cups of all-purpose flour

1 ½ tsp baking powder

1 tsp of salt

¾ cup of milk 

Directions: 

Step 1: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line two muffin pans with liners

Step 2: In a large bowl, add all ingredients and begin to mix until the cupcake batter is made

Step 3: Pour the batter into the muffin pans, filling each cupcake liner 3/4th of the way

Step 4: Place the cupcake in the oven for 25 minutes or until golden brown

Step…

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