kyle's pick & doodle time

My nephews are in town this week and when I asked them what their favorite dessert is Kyle said, "spumoni ice-cream." So we have spumoni cupcakes at Enjoy this week! Here's a snapshot...

Chocolate cake, filled with a fluffy vanilla mascarpone mousse and cherry puree, topped with chocolate & fresh cherry frostings and chopped pistachios

& here's Kyle reading "Walter the Farting Dog" to Opal

"Doodle Time"...Earlier in the week I asked on  if anyone had any flavor suggestions & I received some awesome ideas…snickerdoodle being one of them! So I put a little twist on it (since I am obsessed with chocolate) & made chocolate snickerdoodle one of this week’s flavors…keep the requests coming!

Chocolate cake, filled with cinnamon chocolate pudding, topped with cinnamon sugar butter-cream, house-made snickerdoodle cookies and chocolate!

I found a great snickerdoodle recipe online (and now can't find the source, but loved that it was posted by a girl who's grandmother cut the recipe out of a newspaper decades ago). The cookies came out soft in the middle and crisp outside - perfect!

Soft Snickerdoodle Cookies

*Ingredients*

1 cup butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 large eggs

2 3/4 cups flour

2 teaspoons cream of tartar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons sugar

3 teaspoons cinnamon

*Directions*

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Mix butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar and eggs thoroughly in a large bowl.

Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.

Blend dry ingredients into butter mixture.

Chill dough, and chill an ungreased cookie sheet for about 10-15 minutes in the fridge.

Meanwhile, mix 3 tablespoons sugar, and 3 teaspoons cinnamon in a small bowl.

Scoop 1 inch globs of dough into the sugar/ cinnamon mixture.

Coat by gently rolling balls of dough in the sugar mixture.

Place on chilled ungreased cookie sheet, and bake 10 minutes.

Remove from pan immediately.

Comments

[Amy]

I'm totally going to try making these snickerdoodles. The last ones I made tasted amazing, but I hated that it called for like a cup (or maybe more) of crisco shortening! Just a big wad of partially-hydrogenated garbage! Thanks for posting that. As for flavors, I'm kinda hooked on chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in a waffle cone for dessert this past week! Could you make a cupcake flavor out of that? If so, I want to taste it!