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Peanut Butter Cookies {Milk Bar Monday 11/5}

November 5, 2012 By bigfatbaker 13 Comments

We are back!

I know it’s be a little while since I’ve posted …school tends to get in the way of blogging… but when I received an email from Audra asking us if we were ready to bring Christina Tosi back into our lives, I couldn’t resist.

As I’m sure you know by now, the Momofuku Milk Bar is one of my all time favorite cookbooks and the group we have created around it is totally awesome!

So I’m happy to say that we are back at it, and as a result you will have more wonderful Milk Bar recipes to taunt your tastebuds.

Jacqueline eased us back in with her recipe choice, Tosi’s take on a delicious Peanut Butter Cookie.

Chocolate Chocolate Cookies {Milk Bar Monday 7/16}

July 16, 2012 By bigfatbaker 9 Comments

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve had a chance to post. Actually my last post was the Sweet Corn Cereal Milk Ice Cream Pie.

I’ve found I always manage to make time for our Milk Bar Mondays. This has quickly become my favorite posting group to be apart of.

Christina’s book has taught me a lot about baking and I feel I am much more confident in the kitchen because of the recipes I have learned for MBM.

Some of the most beneficial so far:

Chèvre Frozen Yogurt with Beet-Lime Ganache and Pistachio Crunch – because of the level of difficulty and the amount of ingredients needed I felt it was quite a feat to finish this recipe.

Birthday Layer Cake – a true recreation of one of my favorite boxed cake mixes. Make me thing about how contrasting flavors work so well. Also, Christina’s way of building cakes is brilliant.

Cinnamon Bun Pie – the mother dough and liquid cheesecake recipes are some of the most valuable recipes in the whole book.

Compost Cookies – think outside the box! Also taught me proper mixing procedure for all her cookies.

I also love that all of us are able to talk about the recipes as we make them. For example, these chocolate cookies.

Cassie e-mailed us about her experience with the recipe. Some of the girls cut down on the butter like Cassie did, while others stuck to the recipe.

I decided to compensate a different way. Just to see how mine might turn out compared to everyone else’s. Instead of cutting down on the butter I added 3/4 of the chocolate crumbs instead of half, and I mixed the dry ingredients in for a full 40 seconds (instead of my usual 20ish). [Read more...]

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Sweet Corn Cereal Milk Ice Cream Pie {Milk Bar Monday 7/2}

July 2, 2012 By bigfatbaker 13 Comments

Welcome to another Milk Bar Monday! Today I am the host.

I chose the sweet corn cereal milk ice cream pie for a multitude of reasons.

It is HOT out there and we all need a little something sweet to help us cool off, so why not have some ice cream.
I am an Indiana girl and our major claim to fame is corn. We have some fabulous corn that grows there during the summer. So when I saw this recipe it just screamed “Indiana Summer” and I couldn’t pass it up.
It uses cereal milk!
Finally – you can top it with one of your favorite seasonal fruits! What pie is complete without a little fruit topping?

This recipe isn’t is as hard as it seems. Some of our past Milk Bar Mondays have had crazy steps and ingredients, but this one is pretty tame in comparison. The only thing I had to find was freeze-dried corn. I got mine on Amazon but I think you can also find it at Whole Foods and other health food stores.

You start by making the corn cookies, which are surprisingly corny and sweet but not as strange as they seem. They will be a new favorite in this Indiana household.

Then you start your “ice cream” base by making some of the famous cereal milk. I think this is our first recipe that uses it, but it was worth the wait. It’s a sweetened milk full of delicious cereal flavor. For this recipe we made Cap’n Crunch cereal milk but the recipe is pretty much the same for which ever cereal you decided to use.

While your cereal milk is soaking you take the delicious corn cookies and make the pie crust! Yes, we are getting to be all sorts of corny for this recipe.

Once your cereal milk is ready to go you make a corn pudding sort of mixture, let it cool, then fold it with some whipped heavy cream and sour cream. Pour it all into your pie crust and let it freeze for a few hours.

I topped my finished pie with some pureed peaches for an extra kick of summer flavor. But they great thing is summer has so many wonderful fruits to offer that you can’t go wrong with anything you chose. A few that I want to try are strawberries, blueberries, and cherries.

See? Not too crazy for a Milk Bar Monday.

And 2 super bonuses when your pie is done – there are extra cookies & extra cereal milk! I recommend using the cereal milk in your coffee..mmm…

So what are you waiting for, check out the recipe below and celebrate the fourth with a super summery ice cream pie!

Don’t forget to check out Audra’s Pie over at The Baker Chick! You can also follow our conversation on Twitter and check out past recipes and pictures on Pinterest. [Read more...]

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Birthday Layer Cake {Milk Bar Monday 6/18}

June 18, 2012 By bigfatbaker 19 Comments

Hello everyone! I hope you have been enjoying the guest post recipes this week. I know I have!

Today we are taking a little break… I am back at it with our next Milk Bar Monday installment! Our host for today was Audra and she chose the Birthday Layer Cake.

Christina Tosi’s goal with this recipe was to recreate the funfetti boxed cake mix flavors in her own way.

The bf & I thought her recipe was spot on. We both loved the cake crumb layers in with the frosting layers. It reminded me of when I used to get the crunch layer in my DQ ice cream cake.

Compared to some of our past recipes I thought this was a relatively easy one. I was able to get it all done in one go and freeze it overnight.

You can easily make this at home (with the help of a cake ring) and impress your loved ones on their next birthday.

Want your own copy of the Momofuku Milk Bar book to bake along with us? Get it here so you don’t miss anymore Milk Bar Mondays!