Adventures with Chocolate
Apr. 29th, 2022 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitMy birthday cake was actually muffins! I had a friend over and we made a recipe from Adventures with Chocolate that I have been meaning to make for a while: Thyme, Jaggery, and White Chocolate Muffins. Except I used panela because the internet says it's basically the same thing except they sell it at the Market Basket. You can tell I've been meaning to make it because I already had the panela.
(Also the ex who was using a hammer and chisel on his panela was making life way harder for himself; turns out it grates on a cheese grater just fine.)
I actually really like Adventures with Chocolate. The recipes are clear and straightforward and there's a lot of interesting stuff in there. Except for the part where it called for both jaggery and "light sugar" and then has a step that's just "add sugar" which we took to mean "add both of the types of sugar" because it didn't actually mention the jaggery anywhere. Also we just used an entire cup of jaggery because while I think "light sugar" means "light brown sugar" it was not at all clear on this point; just "light sugar" is not a term I've ever heard.
They came out tasting very odd and I think that's more down to the thyme than anything. Admittedly some of that might just be our adjusting for dried versus fresh needing some fine-tuning, but thyme combined with white chocolate and panela is also just a weird flavor combination. They're good-- quite tasty-- but it's an odd flavor combination all the same. Sort of like spice cake but if spice cake wasn't quite as spicy.
(Also the ex who was using a hammer and chisel on his panela was making life way harder for himself; turns out it grates on a cheese grater just fine.)
I actually really like Adventures with Chocolate. The recipes are clear and straightforward and there's a lot of interesting stuff in there. Except for the part where it called for both jaggery and "light sugar" and then has a step that's just "add sugar" which we took to mean "add both of the types of sugar" because it didn't actually mention the jaggery anywhere. Also we just used an entire cup of jaggery because while I think "light sugar" means "light brown sugar" it was not at all clear on this point; just "light sugar" is not a term I've ever heard.
They came out tasting very odd and I think that's more down to the thyme than anything. Admittedly some of that might just be our adjusting for dried versus fresh needing some fine-tuning, but thyme combined with white chocolate and panela is also just a weird flavor combination. They're good-- quite tasty-- but it's an odd flavor combination all the same. Sort of like spice cake but if spice cake wasn't quite as spicy.
