Forget having to wash measuring cups and spoons, the kitchen scale lets you cook without the big clean up.
Not only will your clean-up be quicker, but your cakes will be tastier. According to food writer and culinary expert Michael Ruhlman,
“Recipes work better when you weigh ingredients. A cup of flour can weigh between 4 and 6 ounces. That means if you’ve got a bread or cake recipe that calls for 4 cups of flour, you might measure out 16 ounces or 24 ounces—a 50% difference in the main ingredient! No wonder people are so afraid of making their own cake. Measuring is easier and cleaner and results in fewer dirty measuring cups when you use a scale. You can measure everything right into your mixing bowl. Have you ever tried to measure out a cup of shortening? It’s a mess.”
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If you’re like me, the cravings hit as soon as I get home from work and am ready to crash in front of the television. Instead of having to choose between satisfying your craving or sticking to your healthy ways now you can do both!
Best Health offers some yummy and also diet-friendly snacks:
If you’re craving a Chocolate Triple Shake from McDonald’s go for a Grande Starbucks Banana Chocolate Vivanno smoothie. To make this an even healthier choice, ask them to use only half of the banana and to use skim or soy milk. I promise it tastes just as good!
If you’re craving a homemade peanut butter cookie go for one tablespoonful of peanut butter spread on banana slices.
If you’re about o buy a bag of regular M&Ms buy a bag of Hershey kisses and have 4 and save the rest for your next craving.
If you’re out and want a Tim Horton’s Old-Fashioned Glazed doughnut order a Maple- or Chocolate-Dip doughnut instead…just not everyday.
If you want Ruffles Regular potato chips while watching TV go for Triscuit Thin Crisps instead.
If you need your carbs like a white-bread bagel with butter and jam in the morning go for an English muffin with only jam. You won’t even notice there’s no butter.
Ever since Magnolia Bakery opened its doors in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, it has become a destination for lovers of all-things sweet. In this video get step-by-step recipe instructions on how to make Magnolia’s Chocolate Cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting.
In this video learn how to make step by step a Queen Elizabeth Cake, a date nut cake that is truly fit for a queen.
Whether it’s scary pudding cups or eyeball cupcakes you need to make something spooky for Halloween.
To be the hit of whichever party you’ll be attending this Halloween check out these recipes.
Now you can show your support and satisfy your sweet tooth at the same time! A bakery in Phoenix has created Obama cookies (and cakes) which show the presidential hopeful’s logo. Tammie Coe Cakes will also be creating McCain cookies and cakes later this week, so Republicans can join in the sweet fun too. Read more…
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to light the lights. It’s time to see the coolest cake ever - this cake won first prize at the 2007 Kentucky State Fair. Check out all the pictures…
Check out these gi-normous foods. The article is called, “The World’s Freakiest Foods,” but there’s nothing freaky about a doughnut that took 40 people nine hours to construct. That’s just plain awesome. Other entries include a giant hoagie in Mexico City, a wheel of cheese bigger than a person, an 8-tonne ice cream cake, and a cookie that measured almost 10 feet across.
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