archetypes reveal themselves when women collaborate on bachelorette gatherings: there are contact-gatherers and listmakers, surreptitious-dildo-crown-buyers and sentimentalists, spa-going ladyscapers and barhopping princesses. me, i'm the scheherazade of simple carbs, and i bake 'til i can't bake no more.
once upon a time for lesley's party in brooklyn this saturday, i made meringue mushrooms with cocoa powder and semisweet chocolate;
dark and stormy cupcakes with crystallized ginger (tm yrs trooly), and cookies with smashed-up smoked chocolate, toffee, vanilla, and cocoa nibs;
and caramels with soy sauce and maldon sea salt. the end.
8 comments:
You know how to bring it.
Love the cigar boxes.
And - CARAMELS WITH SOY SAUCE?! This tempts me to abandon the office and go home and burn some sugar immediately.
i learned from the best, man; that's your cookie recipe i keep adapting! i think this cigar box/japanese newspaper presentation is going to be a standard going forward; it gives the baked goods a fantastic, mysterious aromatic backdrop.
yep, soy sauce; i'm still touch and go with the texture on those caramels (i think i don't keep them at a high temp for long enough, but i'm always a little afraid i'll make them too firm; is the answer that caramel can't be too firm?), but the flavor, yeow. spooky and secretive and darkly great. burn that sugar!
excellent spread!
but i can't believe i rolled over and let you guys take the best boxes.
clearly we need to go back to that togo's next to the cigar store.
Yummzeezs.
I do love those cookies, but I clearly need to take a cue from you and start playing with them. This particular variation sounds killer.
I would like to tell you that caramel can't be too firm, but it can. And I'd personally prefer slightly soft to tooth-cracking. So you're erring on the correct side. I also happen to believe that caramels (and fudge) are sensitive to humidity levels, so I use that as my excuse whenever they fail to turn out exactly as expected. Luckily, they are edible no matter what.
Will you save me a cookie please?!
where's your crown?
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