TWD - Brioche Sticky Buns

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking with Dorie) recipe is Brioche Sticky Buns.

It starts with making a half recipe of Dorie’s brioche dough. It is then proofed, chilled, rolled, filled, put into a caramel sauce and baked.

And this is the end result:

It is definitely a labour of love requiring a fair amount of time, but the end result is delicious:

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

TWD - Banana Cappuccino Cake

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Everyday Cakes) recipe is Banana Cappuccino Cake. Dorie created those cake as a riff on banana bread, combining the flavours of things that grow together -  bananas, coffee and coconut.

When I read the recipe, my initial thoughts were that these ingredients are pretty wild together. Bananas and coconut I could understand, but with coffee? 

My fears were unfounded - this is a beautiful cake. Bananas and coffee is not something I’d be drawn to normally, but it just works in this cake.

To flavour the cream cheese icing, I used coffee essence, as I only had instant coffee rather than espresso powder, and I knew it would not dissolve.

This cake is delicious - if you are not a fan of banana cakes, the other flavours in this one really balance out the banana flavour.

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

TWD - Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

 This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies. For me, they were not classic as they contain walnuts as well as chocolate, but you know, tomayto, tomarto.

These cookies didn’t turn out great for me. I made them at my mother’s house using spreadable butter out of a tub (which is all I had), which may have contributed to them spreading like mad in the oven and coming out as flat as pancakes. The round cookies in the photo were cut out of the joined up blobby mess on the baking trays. 

My cookies also did not crisp up - they were quite soft.

Onwards and upwards I say!

To see what everyone else made this week and whether they had better luck than me, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.