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Your Daily Sweets (2005-2012)

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RuthWells

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^Ruth, those are adorable! And much better than the heart-shaped cookies I was considering purchasing at a notable bakery yesterday! :smile:

Ling, I am living vicariously through your dining experiences -- yum! Thanks for the feedback on the cookies. My 7-year-old son gave me the best compliment ever when he saw them -- he said, "They almost look like you bought them at a store!" He cracks me up. :smile:

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Lemonade & Kidneys

Sweet Pleasures

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Ruth, I love your cookies! Can you please tell us about your icing? What type do you use? Does it dry hard? It looks like you've covered them with 2 colours. Did you just outline with one and flood with another or are there 2 layers? Thanks. :)

Thanks, CB! I used the royal icing recipe from The Cake Bible, which does indeed dry hard. I haven't been piping alot recently and thus did not trust myself to ice them "freehand", so I used stiff icing to outline first and then flooded them with thinner icing. The reason some of them look sort of two-tone is that...... umm...... I ran out of icing and had to make more, LOL! And I'm never very picky about matching colors exactly. So some cookies ended up with different colors.

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Lemonade & Kidneys

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My first in at least 15 years, perhaps even 20. Sheesh. :blink:

Tasting notes: outer shell that weird combination of sweet mixed with vague chocolate flavor mixed with waxiness. I bit gently still to avoid cracking the whole thing into pieces too early. The filling: syrupy and sticky sweet as I remembered, and obviously the best part of the whole confection, given that the chocolate shell is crap and only serves to hold in the fondant. Nevertheless, once the fake albumen and yolk were licked out completely, I still had to eat the rest of the milk chocolate shell. :biggrin:

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Megan Blocker

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So, a Coldstone Creamery opened up less than a block from my apartment a couple summers ago, but I'd never been. Tonight I was walking home thinking, I don't really feel like eating dinner, but I could go for some ice cream. My usual fix is Haagen Dazs coffee, but I decided to mix it up and finally try Coldstone.

I got a pint of coffee with chocolate chips and oreos mixed in. The ice cream itself isn't fabulous, though it's not terrible, either - but oreos with coffee ice cream?

GENIUS.

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So, a Coldstone Creamery opened up less than a block from my apartment a couple summers ago, but I'd never been.  Tonight I was walking home thinking, I don't really feel like eating dinner, but I could go for some ice cream.  My usual fix is Haagen Dazs coffee, but I decided to mix it up and finally try Coldstone.

I got a pint of coffee with chocolate chips and oreos mixed in.  The ice cream itself isn't fabulous, though it's not terrible, either - but oreos with coffee ice cream?

GENIUS.

I had Coldstone for dinner the other night too...only in my case, it was Valentine's day and I was feeling sorry for myself in my Valentine-less state...sweet cream with cookie dough and brownies pretty much solved it. :biggrin:

I agree that Coldstone's ice cream isn't very good. It's very thick and sticky, and gratuitously fatty, IMO. Not much flavor either. But I'm big on chewy chunks of things in my ice cream, and nobody does it like Coldstone.

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For dessert some reto banana cake. A 1950's family recipe, probable taken for the New York Post home delivery. Ate this stuff as a kid. A well deserved resting place for aging bananas.

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Still pretty good.

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Megan Blocker

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^Mmm sounds good. Oreo ice-cream is my favourite "junky" flavour.  :wink:

Me, too - and trust me, the coffee just put it over the top.

Tonight was also an ice cream-y night, but after the Coldstone pint (gulp), I decided to be good. I got a Tasti-D-Lite, coffee and cream.

Sigh. I really want some Haagen Dazs. Luckily, living in a third-floor walkup keeps you from running out to satisfy every craving. :laugh:

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It seems to be Girl Scout cookie time at my husband's office. -sigh- His selections were Thin Mints, All Abouts (shortbread backed with chocolate) and Trefoils (plain shortbread). Quite frankly I don't care for Girl Scout cookies. Insipid flavors. And now that I'm into making desserts I can confidently say "I can make better." :raz:

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Okay, I promised pictures from Beyaz Firin; I had a good excuse to go to Kadiköy yesterday and make a pilgrimage. I had the white chocolate profiteroles with raspberries inside the profiteroles, topped with a white chocolate sauce. Here is the chocolate variety, white on left. To the right is sütlaç, Turkish rice pudding.

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They had some nice looking tortes...

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tarts...

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little babas...

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and "dilber dudagi" (beauty's lips) baklava with pistachio...

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I also took a stroll by Muhiddin Haci Bekir's, famous for their lokum (Turkish delight). The little white things in the upper right-hand corner are sugar-coated coriander seeds, which are very very nice. :rolleyes:

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They also do good "badem ezmesi" - similar to marzipan, but with several different flavors, and they also have pistachio version...

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sazji

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Oh (um...starting to sound like Ling here), I fogot to mention the ice cream with homemade dulce de leche I had last night. ;) There is a dulce de leche thread with a recipe; it's quite easy. It makes a lot. Which will sit in the fridge, calling you... "Come on...just a little spoonful....just a little tea stirrer full!"

Though the coffee snobs will eat furniture when they read this, it's also quite good in coffee, mixed with a little fresh milk for color... :biggrin:

"Los Angeles is the only city in the world where there are two separate lines at holy communion. One line is for the regular body of Christ. One line is for the fat-free body of Christ. Our Lady of Malibu Beach serves a great free-range body of Christ over angel-hair pasta."

-Lea de Laria

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Ling

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^mmm...that Turkish rice pudding looks great! What makes it different from the North American version, other than being baked?

The little babas look like they are opening their cream-filled mouths saying, "Eat me!" :laugh:

Whenever I get baklava in Vancouver, it almost always comes drenched in syrup. Is this the way it's always served?

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