The Salty Cook

Tag: baking

  • Brookie Cake

    Several years ago we took a trip to New York. My daughter found an enormous, brick-sized cookie/brownie thing at this little tea shop. We’ve been chasing that Brookie ever since. This recipe makes a delicious, well-balanced, flavorful brownie-cookie that the whole family will enjoy. Ingredients cookie Brownie * Dutch-process cocoa powder is made differently from…

  • Sourdough Bread

    Oh hell yeah. Everybody likes sourdough bread. Well, a lot of people do. Some people anyway. I personally love it. There’s nothing better than a slice of home-baked sourdough bread. I like to toast it and slather it with honey and butter, but you do you. Note: Begin this process about 4 days before you…

  • How to Build and Maintain a Sourdough Starter

    The first step to making sourdough bread is making sourdough starter. Sourdough starter is essentially a “mother culture:” a living colony of yeast that you’ll use to leaven your sourdough. Some people can keep a starter alive for years; commercial bakers have sourdough strains that are who knows how old. The process is simple: take…

  • Orange-and-White-Chocolate Cookies

    Ingredients Process

  • Cheesecake Followup

    I forgot to post photos of our cheesecake from last weekend. Here you go: This thing was a beast. Dense, flavorful…decadent. If you like a good cheesecake, you owe it to yourself to bake this recipe at least once in your life. It puts commercial cheesecakes to shame. And best of all, it’s all ingredients…

  • Weekend Bake: Cheesecake

    Weekend Bake: Cheesecake

    Follow along as I make a cheesecake from scratch.

  • Chewy Lemon Cookies

    These lemon cookies have a chewy texture and a soft lemon flavor. If you want a more intense lemon cookie, check out our Lemon Drop Cookies recipe. Ingredients Instructions Did you like this delicious cookie recipe? Check out the Recipes Page for more!

  • Addictive Chocolate-Chip-M&M Cookies

    This recipe makes a small, but potent, batch of highly addictive chocolate-chip-M&M cookies. Be warned: these cookies will be devoured before you know it, so maybe plan to make a couple of batches. Ingredients Process Did you like this recipe? Check out the rest of our Recipes Page to find more!

  • Lemon Drop Cookies

    These cookies have a bright, lemony flavor and a lovely soft texture, which makes them short-lived in the cookie jar. You might consider making a double-batch and freezing half the dough for later — these cookies have proven to be tremendously popular in our house! Ingredients For the glaze: Process That’s it! I hope you…

  • Ben’s Delicious Cheesecake

    This cheesecake is a real panty-dropper. It’s moist, flavorful, and hard to stop eating. Best of all, it’s surprisingly easy to make! NOTE: This recipe needs to cool overnight, so build in plenty of time when baking it. Bake it the night before you want to eat it. Ingredients Cheesecake: Graham cracker crust: equipment Process