How to Temper Chocolate

peanut free girl | December 21, 2009

I am still determined to find how get a thicker and harder chocolate coating on my truffles.

I found the following video and it is a step that needs to be taken called tempering chocolate.

This video is a really good How To video for tempering chocolate.

My Chocolate Cookie Dough Truffles

peanut free girl | December 20, 2009

So I finally tried to make the peanut free cookie dough truffles from the recipe that I posted.

You can revisit the page to the Cookie Dough Truffle recipe.

Peanut Free Christmas Snow Cookie Recipe

peanut free girl | December 15, 2009

The original recipe actually has almonds in the recipe. I’m pretty sure if we were to change the almonds to oats or vanilla extract instead of almond extract we may not exactly get the same taste but we can get a pretty good tasting cookie! I will eventually try these cookies as I have to try all the recipes that I put on here as well.

Christmas Peanut Free Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

peanut free girl | December 15, 2009

3637924_blogIngredients

4 ounces butter
4 ounces vegetable shortening
3/4 cup lightly-packed brown sugar
1/2 cup unsulphured molasses*
1 large egg  (for egg replacement please read here)
3 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon brown food coloring (optional)

Recipe: Peanut Free Chocolate Covered Cookie Dough Truffles

peanut free girl | December 14, 2009

imagesI saw this recipe a while ago on the Food Network on the Paula`s Best Dishes Show.

I`m used to seeing many recipes being really good right up until they add the nuts! But there`s no worries to that since we can always try to alter the recipe.