TWD - Clam Chowder Pie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking with Dorie) recipe is Clam Chowder Pie. Dorie describes this dish as clam chowder soup in pie form.

The recipe contains canned clams, an ingredient that is not readily available in Australia, and oysterette crackers,  which are not a thing here at all. I subbed in frozen cooked clams from an Asian supermarket and Ritz crackers.

I only made a half recipe of pie, which was still sufficient to fill a 9” enamel pie tin.

 Unfortunately this pie was not my thing. I didn’t enjoy the strong sea taste of the clams, and I didn’t love the combination of flavours, including celery, capsicum, worcestershire sauce, tabasco sauce, Old Bay seasoning (also not an Aussie thing - I used paprika) and bacon.

It is definitely an interesting idea to create a pie based on a soup, but this one was just not for me.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.

TWD - Mix-It-Up Citrus Loaf Cake

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Anytime Cakes) recipe is Mix-It-Up Citrus Loaf Cake. It is do called because you can use any combination of citrus fruits that takes your fancy.

I used grapefruit and orange, as that is what I had to hand. Both juice and zest are used in this cake. The cake contains olive oil as the fat component, but you can also use a mix of oil and butter. 

The cake can be optionally glazed with marmalade, which I of course did - I love a sticky, shiny cake.

 This cake may not be a looker, but I absolutely loved it. The outside is crisp and caramelised, the inside is soft and moist and citrussy - count me in. Definitely a make again cake.

To see all the other citrus cakes made by this group, visit the LYL section of the TWD website. 

Red Velvet Roll-Out Sugar Cookies

 Recently, I decided to make red velvet roll out sugar cookies to decorate for Valentine’s Day - you know, red for hearts.

A quick online search led me to this recipe for the cookie dough.

The cookies baked up with a nice flat surface and held their shape well with no spreading.

I then decorated the cookies with ready to roll fondant, using a number of different techniques to add the finishing touches:  

These used a cookie stamp highlighted with cachous:

I cut out different colours of fondant and added details with a knife and sprinkles for the icecream cones.

I think they turned out great! And it’s so much easier than decorating with royal icing.

TWD - Trufflish Nuggets

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Trufflish Nuggets. 

These are gluten free cookies made with a host of store cupboard ingredients, including coconut, cocoa, almonds and chocolate, bound together with egg whites before baking.

They are perfectly fine cookies; not exciting, but a good way to use up odds and sods.

To see what everyone else made this week and what they thought of it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.