Cooking for Dummies - The Cookbook

by frozenorange

Summary:

Small cookbook containing all recipes found in Cooking for Dummies.

Notes:

I always look for recipes online, so this is basically a collection of links. If I change something in the original recipe, I'll let you know. I've tried every single recipe I'll post here and I'm a college student not a professional chef, so you can trust me that they're good and easy to make.

Chapter 1: Studmuffin - Recipes

Banookies 

½ cup butter, softened
½ cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
tablespoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup walnuts
1 cup chocolate chip
1 ripe banana

Cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then stir the vanilla extract. Add baking soda and salt then gradually stir in the flour, chocolate chips and walnuts. Mash the banana and add it to the batter. Cook for 10 minutes in the oven at 350° until the edges turn brown. makes 36 cookies.

 

Lemon Cupcakes (Derek's reading this recipe before Stiles walks into the bakery for the first time. It has no purpose whatsoever in the story but you should try this anyway)

http://alchemybaking.blogspot.it/2013/03/really-moist-lemon-cupcakes-for-lemon.html

I add another ½ of flour and use only one tablespoon of water instead of ½ cup.

 

Cherry Pie

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/cherry-pie/f2889e73-caac-40ef-8b5e-f35f04496fc6

I've tried five different cherry pies so far and this is the best recipe, and it's also easy to make. If you want to use sweet cherries remember to add a tablespoon of lemon juice in the filling or the pie will be too sweet. Or instead of the lemon juice you can put only 1 cup of sugar in the filling. I usually make the pie with sour cherries but I've tried both, it's good either way as long as you remember to add some lemon juice to the sweet cherries.