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French Butter Cookies (Sables)

December 6, 2013 by Cate 37 Comments

These French Butter Cookies, also called a Sable, have a slightly crunchy and crumbly texture, and a rich buttery flavor. They are an easy yet elegant Christmas cookie!

French Butter Cookies, also called a Sable | ChezCateyLou.com

Ever since we got back from Paris, I can’t stop dreaming about our amazing trip and all things French. So I just had to bake up a French cookie to pretend I was back in France. Sables are delicate butter cookies that are slightly crunchy and slightly crumbly in texture. Sable means sand in french, and the texture is kind of sandy – hence the name! They are simple in flavor but absolutely delicious. Plus you can decorate them with colored sugars, making them the perfect little treat around Christmas! We encountered cookies like this or some variation of a sable all over the bakeries of Paris. They are served when you order afternoon tea or coffee, and we even had some served to us with a cocktail after dinner one night! That is my kind of after dinner drink!… 

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Filed Under: CateyLouBakes Tagged With: America's Test Kitchen, Baking, chez cateylou, Christmas, Cookies, elegant, festive, France, French, hard boiled egg yolk, holiday, plaid, sables, simple, Sugar

Gingerbread Doughnuts

December 1, 2013 by Cate 32 Comments

All the warm flavors of gingerbread are baked into a cute little donut and topped with a thick layer of frosting! These gingerbread donuts are perfect for the holiday season!

Gingerbread Donuts | ChezCateyLou.com

It is December 1 – let the Christmas recipes begin! I have a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit until Thanksgiving and my birthday have passed. But once they are over, I start to get so excited about Christmas. TheBetterHalf and I just got back from an amazing trip to Paris and Brussels (more to come about our trip in a future post) and both cities were all decked out for Christmas. It was gorgeous, and got me in such a festive mood!

So when I woke up at 5:00am this morning because of jetlag, naturally my thoughts immediately went to Christmas baking. And since it is a weekend morning, I focused on doughnuts, one of our favorite weekend breakfasts since I bought my Donut Pan.  And so gingerbread donuts were born!  … 

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Filed Under: CateyLouBakes Tagged With: Baking, Breakfast, brown sugar, Brunch, Cake, chez cateylou, Christmas, Cinnamon, Donut, Doughnut, festive, Frosting, ginger, gingerbread, holiday, Icing, molasses, powdered sugar, pumpkin pie spice, winter

Birthday Brownie Pudding

November 27, 2013 by Cate 16 Comments

Brownie Pudding | chezcateylou.com

Happy birthday to me! Today we are celebrating at Chez CateyLou, because it is my birthday! And what better way to celebrate than with chocolate. I bake all the time (could you tell?) but I wanted to make something special for my birthday. So since it is my birthday and all about me, I decided to make myself Ina Garten’s Brownie Pudding.

I saw this on her show ages ago and made a mental note to try this recipe. However I kept putting it off because I knew it would be dangerous for me. All baked goods are dangerous, but at least cookies have some built in portion control. You can freeze some, give some away, and you know that once you’ve had three, you should probably stop. But a whole pan of molten chocolate brownie cake pudding? Well I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to stop eating it. So that’s why I decided to wait to make it until it was my birthday. Because no one can judge you if you eat an entire dessert if it is your birthday.

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Filed Under: CateyLouBakes Tagged With: Barefoot Contessa, birthday, brownie pudding, Cake, celebrate, Chocolate, Chocolate Cake, decadent, delicious, eggs, festive, gooey, Ice Cream, Ina Garten, milk

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