Food: Cupcake FAQ and Chai Ice Cream
OK, so I opened my lovely Google Reader and saw these two items, one from Vanilla Garlic and the other from Simply Recipes. I couldn’t wait to post on both of them, so here they are together:
Vanilla Garlic — Cupcake Questions, Answers, and Tips: I have been dying to make cupcakes for a while but am too scared. This FAQ made me feel better about myself by answering most common user-submitted questions. My favorite tip:
Q: Do I have to preheat my oven?
A: Do I have to bitchslap you for asking me that?
Simply Recipes — Chai Ice Cream: Ice cream is another dessert making venture I would love to try. What better to start off with Chai Ice Cream? It must be insanely delicious, and worth all the effort. It even has a bit of a background on Chai itself, including how the use of sweeteners to British tea ruffled some British feathers:
To the great distress of the British marketers of the time, the locals insisted on adding way more sugar and milk than would be considered proper by English standards and, adding insult to injury, spicing it up a bit with cardamom, pepper, cinnamon.
In Japan, desserts are everywhere–pastries, ice cream, soft cream, sweet breads–you name it, they have it. I even bought a creme brulee from a pastry kiosk that actually gave you the ceramic ramekin it was made in, for only 300 yen! Also it seems that Japan endorses incorporating any and all flavors of the rainbow into simple things like Kit-Kats. Maybe they have already invented a Chai ice cream…?
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