Sheri made these look amazing, but looks can be deceiving....
I was pretty excited to
pick up the Snackable Bakes cookbook since I am always looking for good recipes
for portable lunchbox snacks. Sadly, this is not what this cookbook is
all about. I am an experienced longtime baker so this book might be great
for a new beginning baker. I made three recipes from this book. The
Peach-Caramel Dump Cake, which was exciting because you didn't have to peel the
peaches and it is peach season in Colorado. The Salty-Snack Chocolate
Fudge with Pretzels and Crushed Potato Chips, I mean chocolate and potato
chips, right! The final recipe was the Vanilla Cream Scones- I thought a
scone recipe without butter interesting. I followed all the recipes
exactly and the final products looked exactly as pictured in the book,
following are what my family and I thought about the recipes.
1.
The Peach-Caramel
Dump Cake- This recipe was both horribly sweet and horribly salty. I was
looking for that happy sweet/salty taste, but this wasn't it! I ended up
throwing it away - what a waste of good peaches! I will say that I didn't
notice not peeling the peaches made a great difference in the taste. I
may try not peeling the peaches in my dump cake recipe and see what
happens. If you decide to make this, I would leave out the salt.
Southern Living has a great- easy peach dump cake recipe that is way better
than this.
2.
The Salty-Snack
Chocolate Fudge recipe- It was also o.k. but horribly salty. I
didn't have flaky sea salt so didn't sprinkle that on top. It didn't need
it. I was excited to try a fudge recipe with potato chips in it. I
tried chocolate covered potato chips once and yummy! Never mind- if
you make it skip the additional salt called for and cut the pretzels by
one-half. It might be ok. I like the idea, will look for a
different recipe.
3. This recipe was good and
it works great. I mean, if you didn't have butter on hand and only had
heavy cream these were definitely good vanilla scones. They were a hit in
my house, but my family all decided they like my vanilla scone recipe with
butter better. I didn't find them extremely easy to make as you need to
fold and roll them out 3 times to achieve the laminated dough. I rolled
them out into a final rectangle that was 4 x 12 and then made 16 small scones instead
of 8 large. They were good and gone in 72 hours. It is just as
simple to make regular vanilla scones as these though and you don't make a big
mess on your counter while doing it.
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