salted caramel

Cat-tastrophe: A tail of caramel macarons

Ok, so a few posts back, I showed you what I was capable of as far as macarons go. It wasn’t a pretty site. Except those were chocolate pecan macarons. The swarthy cousin of the petite french macarons. I have been trying for the better part of a year to bake the delicious french macarons…

Empty-your-baking-cabinet Cookies

As bakers, you sometimes find that you have a lot of half empty bags or containers of baking ingredients that you used for one recipe, but may not get used unless you make that specific recipe again. Some items will keep for a long time. Some, not so much. I was browsing through Sally’s cookie…

The Return of Salted Caramel

OOOOOK, so as promised, I attempted to make low carb salted caramel sauce. Now, I know there are very few people out there on the keto diet who sit and lament not being able to eat this stuff. But, hey, I figure if I could make it accessible, why the hell not? As I put…

Happy glorious Saturday friends! My camping trip was postponed due to bad weather. However, this gives me time to tinker with recipes today. I ordered a bag of Erythritol from Amazon this week and finally received it. I decided to start with this sugar substitute as it seems like a natural substance that doesn’t have…