MAZDA CS9

Confectioner plutôt que fabriquer

Crafted versus built.

Confection

Candy=craft

Candy is art!

WHOOPIE PIES BY BETTY CROCKER

I remember my grandma making what I thought of as homemade oreos. So when I went looking through her hand written recipes, I was surprised to recognize the recipe under the heading of Whoopie Pies. Not only did that surprise me, but it was totally identical to Betty Crocker's recipe with their boxed Devil's Food Cake and White Frosting! Here is the modern recipe:

Let’s Make Whoopie Pies

Prep Time 30 MIN
Total Time1 HR 15 MIN
Servings 18

Ingredients

Cookies

1 box Betty CrockerTM SuperMoistTM Devil's Food cake mix
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 box(4-serving size) chocolate instant pudding and pie filling mix

Filling

2 containers Betty CrockerTM Whipped Fluffy White Frosting


1. Heat oven to 350°F.

2. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper, silicone baking liners, or lightly spray with cooking spray.

3. In large bowl, beat all cookie ingredients with electric mixer on low speed until moistened; beat 1 minute longer on high speed.

4. Pour batter into a 1 gallon resealable plastic bag. Seal baggie and cut small hole off of one of the bottom corners.

5. Pipe batter into 36 small circles onto cookie sheets about 1- inch apart to allow for spreading.

6. Bake 10 to 12 minutes until set being careful to not over bake. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets and place on cooling rack. Cool completely before filling.

7. Once cookies are cooled spread frosting on flat side of one cookie. Top with the second cookie, flat side down to make a sandwich.

Here is another version my mom had, called Grandma's Oreo Cookies:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix together in a large bowl:

1 c. margarine (softened for easier blending)
4 eggs
2 boxes Duncan Hines Devil’s Food cake mix
2 tbsp. flour

Roll into balls the size of a walnut. Put on cookie sheet 2-3“ apart, but don’t press down. Bake for 12 minutes. Cool for 2 minutes and take off sheet. Cool completely.

Filling:

Cream together:
2 cups icing sugar
1-8 oz. package of cream cheese

Spread on cooled cookies. Put two flat sides together. (Hint – put a blob on one cookie and squish with other cookie)


Makes 24 and freezes well.

WISH LIST: NEW YORK RESTAURANT BLUE HILL FARM

Featured in Chef's Table documentary, the evolution of Dan Barber's farm came from a place I admire. Trying to make the best food possible, he searched for a source, and developed a hobby farm that even features veal that tastes freedom before its demise. The taster's menu sounds amazing, but I think my first visit will be to the Café.

WHAT DID YOU DO THIS WEEKEND?

Sometimes I feel like an underachiever. People like Dr. Dionne Tatlow both impress and depress me. She decided to spend two days swimming across a 45 km wide lake in Saskatchewan. When she started swimming across Lac La Ronge, she had plans to swim 12 hours on Saturday, and finishing on Sunday. She planned, however, to start at 5:30 am, just in case she felt good enough to do it in one long day. She divided the swim into 5 legs, and five minutes shy of 15 hours of swimming later, she had just achieved what no one else had ever done before. Not my ideal day, but a kick in the butt when I contemplate binge watching a tv show. I could do better!

ARE YOU A NIMBY?

NIMBY

An acronym for "Not In My Back Yard", the most pejorative use of the word is when someone is okay for something bad to happen, as long as it doesn't affect them.

WHERE I WAS JUNE 1ST, 2016

The train from Fuessen to Rothenberg ob Tauber runs right through Ansbach

THE YEAR YOU WERE TEN

You passed Olympic Way Red!
You had a marathon swim with Audrey Cavanaugh for 6 hours!
You won two fourth place ribbons for front crawl!
You swam a length of butterfly for the first time!
It hailed in July!
You gave a circus show with Jasmine.
You planted a table full of potted plants with Jasmine.
Your friend Laura had a cast when she fell at the playground.
You finished grade four with flying colours and made the most wonderful stone Kitty Castle!
You Read Amelia journals over and over again!
We went to Bavaria and Austria together.
Your favourite animal is a cheetah.
You love maple sugar ice cream!
You watched the Sound of music with me, and it was so much fun to see placed in Salzburg we had been together!
You help with Nancy Drew and Calico. Calico loves when you play with her!
You saw your first firefly!
You still love playing with dolls!
You joined a book club!
You love graphic novels by Raina Telgemeier and Marisa Moss (Amelia)!
You ran a cross country run of 1.5 km!
You chose Steve Jobs for president!
You chose the American Basswood (the Linden family) for a project on Le Tilleul.
You get your bag ready every morning.
You had your first cavity.
You got glasses (and eyedrops to prove the headaches were from your vision).

PLANET MONEY

On my way home from bookclub this evening, I listened for the first time to a podcast called Planet Money. The talked to a doctor who ran an unusually sensitive health insurance company in the States, remarkable in his policy to give dissatisfied patients their money back. I don't remember the name of the company or what the context was of the quote I walked away with, but his reference was in trying to avoid being "the cream of the crap"! I think that's funny!