Best of 2011

I am a bit late on my 2011 recipe reflections, but here they are at last, now that I have to go back to work and back to catching up with those things I do online (even though I do want to spend less time online in 2012 and more time with people and books, or so I put in writing in one of my little papers).

Part One: Chocoholism, with lots of Oreos.

Chocolate-Buttercream Cake Decadence Pie

Qualifier: Taste-testing oh-my-goodnesses. And my initial oh-my goodness as I layered buttercream on a chocolate cake crust and sealed it in the ganache. Ohmygoodness.

Chocolate Oreo Cake

Qualifier: Lots of blog traffic who, poor things, got inflicted with my rant about period piece romances and how they are like creating layer cake masterpieces. Also, the most awesomest moist chocolate cake recipe ever, via the Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake I got paid to remake later in the year (woohoo, a first).

Oreo-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Qualifier: The number of people who off-blog went on about how amazing these were. Good thing I shared them because it was tempting to hoard them for myself.

Part Two: The white of Black and White, with some veggies.

 

Chicken Tetrazzini

Qualifier: My mother's compliments. All 4,928 of them. Also my pride in completing the from-scratch, no cream-of-blah-blah-soup challenge.

White Texas Sheet Cake

 Qualifier: Number of times it was made x Number of yum-moist-almond-flavor expressions= BIG wow factor.

Succotash

Qualifier: Bacon. Also, a wonderful story from someone who remade and ever-so enjoyed it.