Since we are such fans of the Vanilla Coconut Sugar Shortbread it was an easy leap to this recipe. I wanted to try coconut sugar’s caramel-like flavor in a chocolate cookie. Using a standard shortbread formula I added cocoa as part of the dry ingredients and flaked coconut to give the cookies some texture, [...]
The cooking class that I’m teaching at Mills College started today. I devoted the first class to tasting different salts, sugars, vanilla’s, and butters. I wanted everyone to get an overview of the variation of flavors in these products so they can see how these differences can enhance their end product and hopefully [...]
I decided to reconstruct a coconut. There was a trend a few years back about creating deconstructed desserts. German Chocolate Cake would come as a wedge of chocolate cake with a pitcher of ganache and a wall of candied pecans or some such stuff! With this recipe I decided to take all the components [...]
