Posts Tagged "walnuts"
Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting
Oh how exciting, I have received a one lovely blog award from Jeanne at simplemathbakery. I feel so giggly, as I feel so much as a newbie to this regular food blogging world, and I am overwhelmed with all these lovely blogs and my task to keep up with them. I feel like I comment much too little and receive too much. Thus, I am honoured to pass on the one lovely blog award and leave you with a list of 12 of my favourite foodies out there. I read you, even if I don’t manage to comment regularly! Here they come, in no particular order:
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The first time I came across turtles was in New England. Deliciously sweet, chocolate, pecans and caramel – all combined. For a welcome treat I wanted to produce something similar, and came across these at joy of baking. Since pecans are not really affordable over here, I substituted those by walnuts and the heavy cream for the ganache by condensed milk. They came out moist and caramely, just like I hoped them to be. Another (among several) tweak to the original recipe was the substitution of light corn syrup by molasses, which worked out very well. I assume it gives those brownies a more intense taste.
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