Welcome to a different rendition of my Newest Recipe Testing sequence.
Numerous thrilling issues to share with you in the present day! I assumed it could be enjoyable to take a break from recipes, and present you some cookbook behind the scenes.
Fourth Cookbook Coming in 2025
As I’ve talked about a number of instances, I’m engaged on my fourth cookbook. It’s going to be my largest, most polished guide but: 100 recipes masking many baking classes like breads, muffins, pies, muffins, cookies, cupcakes, and so forth. A handful of recipes will likely be from my web site, however most (about 75) will likely be fully new and unique to the guide. So in between the brand new recipes you discover revealed on my web site, I’ve additionally been testing new recipes for the guide!
These days I’ve been working my method by the cookie chapter, in addition to the yeasted breads chapter.
The guide will likely be revealed in 2025. I’m giving myself sufficient time and inventive area to provide my greatest work for this undertaking, whereas concurrently retaining my web site up to date with new content material. (And retaining my head on straight.)
Anyway, right here’s a sneak peek at among the just lately developed cookbook recipes. I promise they’re definitely worth the wait. This isn’t the pictures you’ll see within the guide; these are photographs taken for reference through the testing course of.
Chocolate cherry cookies: A chewy, additional fudge-like cookie with a candy maraschino cherry within the heart. And naturally, a beneficiant drizzle of melted chocolate on high. This one took a little bit of testing because the cherry launched quite a lot of liquid and created over-spreading.
This fall-favorite recipe for brown butter pumpkin oatmeal cookies is getting a glow-up for its debut in print, with somewhat sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice on high of the brown butter glaze. The toughest half about testing these cookies and rewriting the recipe for the guide was figuring out precisely how a lot moisture it’s good to blot out of the pumpkin… and determining how you can write that within the directions! (The simplest half was discovering loads of individuals who wished to style check them.)
You will have tried chocolate crinkles, and possibly even lemon crinkles, however ohmygoodness you haven’t really cherished a crinkle cookie till you’ve tried these pistachio crinkles. They virtually soften in your mouth, and style testers RAVED. I’m actually enthusiastic about this new cookie recipe.
Right here’s one other peek at these, earlier than I discovered how you can get them to correctly crinkle just like the picture above. I had a lot of joyful mates and neighbors and even my dentist (who else brings cookies to their dentist?!) style check the primary few batches.
I additionally stepped off the crushed cookie path and in a unique course with a savory cookie recipe! These slice-and-bake-style savory cookies are good for including to a cheese and charcuterie board, or just having fun with with a glass of wine. I do know they don’t appear like a lot (that is simply an iPhone picture!), however they’re salty, peppery, herby, and laborious to cease consuming.
And what’s a cookie chapter with no new vacation cookie recipe?! These chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies embrace a festive peppermint buttercream. Even Santa should wait till the guide comes out to attempt these. Sorry, Santa!
I additionally spent quite a lot of time engaged on a brand new crumb cake-style cookie. These cookies have been an absolute mess once I first began. The crumb topping both (1) unfold far and wide or (2) appeared like floor beef. The ultimate recipe you’ll discover within the guide stays properly placed on the cookies, they usually’re much less ground-beefy-looking. LOL. Excuse the blurry picture, this can be a screenshot of a video I took…
You’ll additionally discover these fan-favorite peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies within the guide, too!
Have you ever seen my Instagram tales concerning the strawberry lemon cookie saga? The swirl idea simply wasn’t working; the feel was method off and the lemon taste wasn’t shining by as a lot as I wished. Sooner or later, I had to surrender and transfer on. Nonetheless, you’ll discover one other strawberry lemon cookie and whereas they aren’t swirled, they’re EVEN BETTER… and doubtless my favourite new cookie recipe within the guide. I’ve the remainder of my group testing them this week.
There will likely be about 15 cookie recipes within the guide, so that is just a bit preview. 🙂
Transferring on to the yeasted bread chapter…
I can’t get sufficient of this cinnamon raisin swirl bread, which I tailored from my home made cinnamon swirl bread, with some changes. It’s tremendous smooth, additional cinnamon-swirly, and makes probably the most scrumptious cinnamon raisin toast.
I get quite a lot of questions on making home made sandwich bread with complete wheat flour, and normally level readers within the course of this multigrain bread. However I’ve a brand new sandwich bread recipe going within the guide that features oats and complete wheat flour, and it’s unbelievably smooth and flavorful.
Proper now, I’ve new recipes for jalapeño cheddar bread and brioche-style sandwich rolls within the works, and also you’ll be sure you discover my widespread pizza dough and smooth pretzel recipes within the guide as nicely. That is my 1st cookbook with some savory recipes in it. (Quiche, stromboli, tacky popovers!)
My group and I are additionally testing seasonal pie/crisp recipes proper now utilizing spring and summer season fruits that you may’t get every other time of 12 months. I’ve by no means been extra excited to work on a undertaking, and I can’t anticipate it to all come collectively. Thanks in your persistence!!
Extra to come back quickly. Within the meantime, I’m sharing some behind-the-scenes snippets on my Instagram Tales, so be sure you pop in and examine them out.
Q: Which of those new recipes are you most excited to attempt?
