Welcome to a different rendition of my Newest Recipe Testing sequence.
A number of thrilling issues to share with you right this moment! I believed it might 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 couple of instances, I’m engaged on my fourth cookbook. It’s going to be my largest, most polished ebook but, 100 recipes masking many baking classes like breads, muffins, pies, truffles, cookies, cupcakes, and so on. A handful of recipes can be from my web site, however most (about 75) can be utterly new and unique to the ebook. So in between the brand new recipes you discover printed on my web site, I’ve additionally been testing new recipes for the ebook!
Currently I’ve been working my manner by the cookie chapter, in addition to the yeasted breads chapter.
The ebook can be printed in 2025. I’m giving myself sufficient time and inventive house to supply my greatest work for this challenge, whereas concurrently maintaining my web site up to date with new content material. (And maintaining my head on straight.)
Anyway, right here’s a sneak peek at among the not too long ago developed cookbook recipes. I promise they’re well worth the wait. This isn’t the pictures you’ll see within the ebook; these are pictures taken for reference through the testing course of.
Chocolate cherry cookies: A chewy, further fudge-like cookie with a candy maraschino cherry within the heart. And naturally, a beneficiant drizzle of melted chocolate on prime. This one took a little bit of testing because the cherry launched lots 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 a bit sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice on prime of the brown butter glaze. The toughest half about testing these cookies and rewriting the recipe for the ebook 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 best half was discovering loads of individuals who wished to taste-test them.)
You’ll have tried chocolate crinkles, and possibly even lemon crinkles, however ohmygoodness you haven’t really liked 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 photograph above. I had plenty of pleased mates and neighbors and even my dentist (who else brings cookies to their dentist?!) style take a look at the primary few batches.
I additionally stepped off the overwhelmed cookie path and in a distinct route with a savory cookie recipe! These slice-and-bake-style savory cookies are excellent for including to a cheese and charcuterie board, or just having fun with with a glass of wine. I do know they don’t seem like a lot (that is simply an iPhone photograph!), however they’re salty, peppery, herby, and exhausting to cease consuming.
And what’s a cookie chapter and not using a new vacation cookie recipe?! These chocolate peppermint sandwich cookies embody a festive peppermint buttercream. Even Santa must wait till the ebook comes out to strive these. Sorry, Santa!
I additionally spent lots 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 in every single place or (2) regarded like floor beef. The ultimate recipe you’ll discover within the ebook stays properly placed on the cookies, and so they’re much less floor beefy trying. LOL. Excuse the blurry photograph, it is a screenshot of a video I took…
You’ll additionally discover these fan-favorite peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies within the ebook, too!
Have you ever seen my Instagram tales concerning the strawberry lemon cookie saga? The swirl idea simply wasn’t working; the feel was manner 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 possibly my favourite new cookie recipe within the ebook. I’ve the remainder of my crew testing them this week.
There can be about 15 cookie recipes within the ebook, so that is just a bit preview. 🙂
Shifting on to the yeasted bread chapter…
I can’t get sufficient of this cinnamon raisin swirl bread, which I tailored from my do-it-yourself cinnamon swirl bread, with some changes. It’s tremendous smooth, further cinnamon-swirly, and makes probably the most scrumptious cinnamon raisin toast.
I get lots of questions on making do-it-yourself sandwich bread with complete wheat flour, and often level readers within the route of this multigrain bread. However I’ve a brand new sandwich bread recipe going within the ebook 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 remember to discover my common pizza dough and smooth pretzel recipes within the ebook as properly.
My crew and I are additionally testing seasonal pie/crisp recipes proper now utilizing spring and summer time fruits which you can’t get another time of 12 months. I’ve by no means been extra excited to work on a challenge, and I can’t anticipate it to all come collectively. Thanks on your endurance!!
Extra to return quickly. Within the meantime, I’m sharing some behind-the-scenes snippets on my Instagram Tales, so remember to pop in and examine them out.
Q: Which of those new recipes are you most excited to strive?
