24carrot

In recent baking news, I made these carrot cake cupcakes with cream cheese frosting a little while back for Nicole's birthday! They have a whole pound of carrots in them. That makes them healthy, right?

CF

Crumblelicious

Crumbles, like this strawberry-rhubarb one, will never win any beauty contests.

But damn are they delicious!

To make it gluten- and sugar-free, I blended two recipes (here and here).

STRAWBERRY-RHUBARB CRUMBLE

For the fruit:
6 rhubarb stalks, chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
1 lb. of strawberries (I used Kula strawberries), hulled and chopped
the juice of one lemon, preferably organic
3 T. cornstarch or arrowroot powder

For the topping:
1 1/2 c. almond meal
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 c. neutral oil, like canola
1/4 c. agave nectar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
big pinch of salt
big pinch of lemon zest

1. Mix the fruit ingredients and place in a deep baking dish.
2. Mix the dry topping ingredients, mix the wet topping ingredients and combine.
3. Evenly top the fruit with the topping and bake at 375 for about 45 mins, or until fruit is very soft and top is brown.

*I hear, for the lactose-tolerant, it's great with ice cream.

I licked the dish.

Now I'm dizzy.

Happy eating!

Simple Goodness

It's not all sugar all the time.

Lately I've been cooking more than baking. Thanks, Jamie Oliver, for the inspiration.

This is a pic of some of my lunch before I crushed it.

Baked rosemary polenta and roasted local cherry tomatoes with gray sea salt.

Maybe right now you're wondering if you're reading the wrong blog.

So simple. So good.

Bye!

Happy Easter

I made vanilla bean strawberry shortcake (Too much cake, not enough icing). And cheesecake ice cream.

The ice cream won, but I don't have any pics of it. Sorry.

Speaking of cream. I had 5 Cadbury Creme Eggs in my possession. But I didn't eat a one of them.

I know. Weird.

Love,
J

Sweet 26

It's Friday and there are treats. Well, one BIG treat.



In honor of the birthday girl: Joanne.



And her love of toffee.



A heaping four-layer chocolate cake with sticky caramel, fresh whipped cream and crushed Heath Bar pieces.

Happy Sweet 26!

Love, CF

Dream Fridge

douglas friedman

While we're dreaming...

I'll take this.

J.

Perfection

MS

A working kitchen set like this could only belong to one woman:

Mother Martha of All Things Perfection

Amen.

J.

Food for Inspiration, Part 5

creature comforts

sorbets & ice creams

David Leibovitz's The Perfect Scoop has turned me into an obsessive ice cream maker.

I can't fight it.

Nor would you want me to.

J.

Food for Inspiration, Part 4

katie baum

I miss rainbow cake.

It more than deserves its own inspirational post.

J.

Food for Inspiration, Part 3

juicy woman

hula seventy

DONUTS.

J.

Food for Inspiration, Part 2

ulrika ekblom, thecupcakemint

Two cookies are always better than one!

J.

Food for Inspiration, Part 1

thekitchn


love & olive oil

I love pictures of food almost as much as I love food itself!!

While I cook up some blog change, please enjoy some very tasteful food porn.

Love,

J.

The Latest and Greatest

My poor sugar blog is feeling a little neglected. I am working on a revamp. So stay tuned.

In the meantime, the oven hasn't gone cold.

Lately I've made such treats as Ina's honey-vanilla pound cake, homemade heart oreos with pink filling and Momofuku compost cookies.

We're doing this.

J.

Hello, awesome.

Cakewich sandwich mold!

Cake. That looks like a sandwich.

Brilliant.

J.

Summer Vacation

Sorry, CF is on hiatus until further notice! We hope you're having the sweetest of summers.

Birthday Cookies!

It's been a while since we've had a birthday Cookie Friday, but this week we had toffee nut chocolate chip bars in celebration of Miss Marylea.

Happy Birthday, MC!

Have a sweet weekend,
CF

Playing Catch-Up.

(I'm trying to update the blog. Here we go.)

Boys like bacon cookies.

Who am I kidding? Everyone did. Turkey bacon cookies, that is. With a chocolate drizzle.


+ The week before, Joanne stepped in to substitute bake some tasty brownie cookies!

She says they are not so "photogenic." However, they were delicious!

Sorry for the delayed postings. CF hopes to be back to a semi-normal routine real soon. See you tomorrow for a surprise cookie bar!

CF

Guess Who's Bizzack.

Any Friday with cookies is a happy one. But a half-day CF with an office picnic and lots of beach time? WAY happier.

Check 'em out: Chocolate chocolate chip cookies with vanilla filling.

Peeps are impatient, so we hit up the cookies early morning, pre-picnic.

"Rahahaha," says Wessie.

I think they liked them.

The three cube-mates unite.

Welcome the NKOBlog, Steve and Dennis.

+ As always, CF is a team effort. Thanks to my sous coookie chef, my frosting specialist and my photographer.

Have a sweet weekend.
JD

Big Stomachs, Bigger Hearts!

Today was THE day for CF's Great American Bake Sale.



We served up chocolate chip cookie sandwiches with your choice of chocolate or vanilla frosting.

YUM.

The sale went swimmingly! At $2 a pop, we sold out of nearly 50 sandwiches in about an hour and a half.




Those babies went fast!


AND WE RAISED A TOTAL OF ...

$200 ! ! !

It never ceases to amaze me how generous the people of PBC--especially the Friends of Cookie Friday--can be! Thank you to everyone!

Check out the totals here. And if you haven't already, become a FAN of CF on Facebook.

Have a sweet weekend.
Plenty LOVE, XOXO, CF