Olive Oil

Ferg and I stumbled upon this little treasure earlier today. It's an olive oil lovers dream! They also sell different balsamic vinegars, olives, martini mixes, pastas and jams. 

Support local family owned stores in camarillo!

Check out the site!

http://www.epicureanoliveoils.com/

Neat Chart

If you like making crafts as much as I do, you always get stuck thinking what is the best adhesive for the materials you are using. My husband stumbled upon this and I figured I would put it on here because it's very helpful. Sorry this isn't food related, but I just had to share!

German Chocolatey Goodness

I'd never made whoopie pies before so I was a little intimidated to try it out. My first batch of the cookies came out great. My second batch came out a little flat and I figured it may be because the butter softened too much or the oven was already too hot.

These german chocolate whoopie pies were made with a simple basic soft chocolate cookie, an extremely easy coconut filling and a chocolate ganache. Putting them all together was like a fun little puzzle.

I had also made a mint chocolate whoopie pie which I was slightly dissapointed in. the peppermint filling was seperating and I contribute that to my butter. It seems like it needs the top quality unsalted butter with quality powdered sugar in order to not seperate. I always have the same problem when making buttercream so hopefully I can perfect that this year as well.

Tres Leches

I've tried tres leches before and it usually involved baking the cake section in a Pyrex, poking holes in it, pour the milky goodness over it and smothering it with a made from scratch whipped topping. I found a recipe in my Bon Appétit book for a round tres leches cake. Its a lengthy step by step process so I was a little intimidated but i went for it!

I baked the cake in one single round pan and slowly cut the round in half horizontally. I then did the milk/caramel process. Long story short... it was a hit. The time frame was definitely worth it. One thing I did do differently was I pre-cut my strawberries and put them in a Tupperware with my black berries and coated them with sugar for a night in the fridge. My strawberries were a little tart so this helped sweeten them up a little.

Neapolitan!

I decided to make this post short and sweet. I went out on a limb and tried something different. I made strawberry, vanilla and fudgy chocolate batters. I plopped a heaping spoonful of each in baking cups and then baked them. Neapolitan is one of my favorite ice creams. I topped it off with a cream cheese frosting but I made it fluffier and creamier by adding partially melted vanilla ice cream in it.
Enjoy!

C is for COOKIE

I LOVE cookies. I've tried many types of snicker doodle recipes and this one is definitely in my tops. Usually my snicker doodles come out flatter but I finally found and tweaked a recipe that makes them rounder and they are still soft. I also tried a chocolaty chocolate chip cookie (using milk chocolate chips). 

Since it was Boss's day today, I figured this would be a great way to say thank you. I generally enjoy wrapping my cookies in cello bags and giving them a little extra something by adding pretty ribbon and a tag. My printer was out of commission yesterday so I hand wrote them... which in the end is still a good thing because it comes from the heart!

If you would like to know the recipe I used for the snicker doodles, e-mail me a request to marthasdeliciousdelights@gmail.com.

So much to choose from!

Choosing what to bake is always the hardest thing so I figured I would get ideas from anyone thats viewing my blog. What specific types of goodies would you like to see me bake? What types of desserts do you have trouble making-- that you would like help with? If I don't know the answers to your questions I have a close friend who may know ;)

    

I wanted to also post pics of a few things of done so far to give my blog a little pizazz. Yes... I use words like pizazz and shnazzy, that's how I roll.