Sweet Things

Buttermilk biscuits are a delicious breakfast food. Especially with butter and jelly! To start out, you will need: - 1 cup butter, softened - 4 cups four - 2 tbsp. sugar - 4 tsp. baking powder - 1/4 tsp. baking soda - 2 tsp. salt - 1 1/2 cups buttermilk First, I preheated my oven to 450 degrees. Next, I put my 1 cup of butter and my flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt  into a medium to large bowl.  If you had a pastry blender, you can use that, but since I don't I just used my hand and mixed it all together until it looks like fine bread crumbs.  Next, add the buttermilk. Stir it all together until the dough leaves the side of the bowl (the dough will be sticky. I prepared my kneading surface by sprinkling flour on on my counter. Knead your dough lightly for about 10 times, or until your dough starts to actually look like a dough, (smooth and soft).  Roll out your dough to 1/2 inch thick. If ...

Happy  St.Valentine's Day! Today I am going to make St. Valentine's Day cupcakes. I used Duncan Hines Marble Fudge cake mix. The box comes with two packets. One contains the packet of the fudge mixture and the other contains yellow cake mix. First, pour the yellow cake mix into a large bowl and add the wet ingredients listed on the back of the box. Then, pour a cup of yellow cake mix into a smaller bowl and add the packet of the fudge mixture. To make these cupcakes I  used a Wilton Valentine's Day cupcake kit I found at Walmart. It is really strange, but I can't find it online anymore. Anyway, you will also need one pipping bag, red food coloring, hot pink sprinkles, Wilton decorating tip 1M, and a box of Wilton buttercream icing mix. I lined my cupcake pans using the cupcake liners provided in the kit. After I have lined the pans, I first poured the yellow batter into all of the cupcake liners. Then, I added a dollop of the chocolate...

With the two doughnut pans I received for Christmas for a relative, I made chocolate donuts using this recipe  here . The ingredients are flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, melted butter, eggs, white sugar, brown sugar, buttermilk, or regular milk mixed with vinegar.The recipe she gives only makes about 6 doughnuts, so I had to double my recipe. First, preheat your oven to 350. Grease your doughnut pans. In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, cocoa, and salt. In a larger bowl, mix together the wet ingredients. Then, mix the wet and dry together. Then fill your pans with the batter. I tried using the piping bag technique, but I didn't use a piping tip and I cut the hole too big, so that didn't turn out well that time. But, if you don't cut your hole too big, the piping bag technique is probably the easiest to do. Bake them in the oven for 8-10 minutes.Let them cool in the pans for 2-3 minutes, then try to take them out. You want...

Today I made triple chip cookies - white chocolate, dark chocolate and milk chocolate chips. First, preheat your oven to 375 F. The list of ingredients are: 2 1/4 cup flour 1 tsp. Baking soda 1 tsp. salt 1 cup softened butter 3/4 cup white sugar 3/4 cup Brown sugar 1 tsp. vanilla extract 2 large eggs 1 3/4 cup chocolate chips (or whole 11.5 oz. bag) In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and salt. In a larger bowl cream the butter, the two sugars, and the vanilla extract  together. Add the eggs, the stir the flour mixture in and add the chocolate chips. The dough gets slightly thick, do you may have to use your hands to finish mixing the dough. Form the cookie dough into small to medium sized balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-15 minutes depending on your oven. Place onto a cooling rack to set and cool. Let them cool for 5 minutes or so. Then, enjoy! - The Junior Baker