I should’ve used a smaller cake mold. I have no idea why I took such a big one, which causes the cake to be thin, which will be delicious, but soooo much harder to assemble!
So heres a whole list of reasons to make this cake.
First off, my dad came over [...]
I’ve stubmled upon a couple of blog posts and recipes that asked for lard. Now I know that in the US you can actually buy buckets of lard in the grocery stores. In Holland you don’t find that. I’m pretty sure you can ask a butcher for some rendered lard, but I [...]
The Pioneer Woman makes me jealous. Not when she posts pictures of scary snakes that sit in her yard. I can do without that nooo problem. I get very very very jealous when I see her kitchen though. She has a ‘baking station’ with ‘flour/sugar drawers’. Seriously, if I didn’t have L, she wasn’t [...]
So I thought my cantuccini were totally screwed up. I was wrong. Yes, they were a little on the thin side, but that’s mainly because they were so wide. If I’d started out with thinner strips of dough, maybe made sure the dough had been a little firmer, they would’ve been perfect.
And I have no idea what I did wrong here.
I started out using an authentic Italian recipe. Definitely authentic, as it was even written in Italian. I’d already asked L what the 1 word I didn’t recognize meant (lievito, yeast) and so I started baking.
They’re in the oven now.
They look like this. [...]
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