They’re not supposed to be dry & crumbly. The best B&W cookies I’ve eaten had a soft cookie base, with real chocolate & vanilla flavor in the (soft fondant) icing.

? Any experience with the Cake Bible Recipes? Suggestions for good flavor combinations? (I’m covering with buttercream and rolled fondant, but I haven’t decided on the flavors yet) Please don’t tell me I will be...

roll ups instead on fondant on the vanilla cake petit fours. And, also not too typical, but small bowls of cashews and raw almonds are good. I’m sure yours will be just wonderful.

are rolled in sugar before baking. Do I just add the luster dust to the sugar, which is what I was planning on? If so, proportions? If anyone has any experience with using this stuff, please let me know. Many thanks in advance!

are quite dense (to support the layers of icing and whatnot) and made days in advance (because the decorating takes so long). Plus, in my opinion, fondant and all those other technically-edible-sugar-concoctions they use to...

I just replied on chow a easy pastry. It does use jarred fruit and store bought crescent rolls but they are yummy and easy. Cut in 1/2 or 1/3 and serve on a tray. You can sprinkle powdered sugar on top as well. It is easy quick...

of bitter almond in it too). Marzipan is an almond paste fondant. If you have leftover marzipan, you can roll it out 16th of an inch thick and drape it over cakes and petit fours instead of icing. Almond paste is more versatile....

I’ve been looking for a bake sale recipe too. Considered doing big decorated sugar cookies on a stick. I decided on a half butter half crisco recipe that’s kind of toothy with a "fondant" type icing then decorate...

I had lunch today at Cafe Brioche in Palo Alto, and I’d call it very good food, reasonably priced, in an attractive environment with very good service. I had a broiled chicken breast pesto sandwich on a roll that was about...

cake: http://tinyurl.com/5uh55v But I wouldn’t make it with cheesecake. WAY too heavy to even sound good after a full Thanksgiving dinner. I’d do a spice cake, then the rolled fondant. If you haven’t worked with...

fruit, flavored it heavily with rum, made it into balls about 2" in diameter, and frosted the balls with poured chocolate fondant. My problem is that I am not sure how to bind the cake crumbs. The resulting cake was cohesive and...

consisting of two 1.5" layers. Frosting was a raspberry mousseline buttercream (egg yolk buttercream mixed with creme anglaise) and over that I rolled white fondant. Decoration was fresh flowers all over (bells of ireland are...

have a Silpat counter mat that I bought for rolling fondant for my wedding cake, and I love it because it’s great for rolling out pie crusts and cookies without using extra flour and without sticking.

an unpleasant coating on the tongue. If you can freeze, use a fruit buttercream between layers, and a thin coating of vanilla buttercream (a “crumb coat”) or apricot jam (light, so it won’t show through)...

Thanks for the idea for Karsh’s since it’s right down the street and I was going to get my rolls there. I’ve never noticed pies on previous trips. (I, too, dislike pumpkin so I can’t bring myself to make...