RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Colorful Sanding Sugar Shortbread Cookies

Above: The shortbread cookies cooling on a wire rack.

RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Colorful Sanding Sugar Shortbread Cookies

KQ partner Chef Philip loves to bake cookies.  This week he made a batch of traditional shortbread cookies and topped them with colorful sanding sugars.  The cookies are soft and buttery, and the sugared tops add a little sweetness and crunch.

Check out videos featuring sweet treats and desserts here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGc8wXdGFo927y3zEh7leDMqzK4R10N9m

NEW VIDEO: Rainbow Swirl Cookies

Above: Graphics for KQ Season 4, Episode 8.

NEW VIDEO: Rainbow Swirl Cookies

Kitchen Queers host Mitch Hightower shows how to make these very colorful cookies using puff pastry and sanding sugars. An easy-to-prepare recipe that is an excellent choice anytime you need to brighten up your dessert table. Perfect for a PRIDE celebration as well! Chef Philip is the guest taste tester for KQ Season 4, Episode 8, Number 68.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_B6Y09V94

Below: The Rainbow Swirl Cookies are ready to serve.

ON THE SET: Taping the Rainbow Swirl Cookie Episode

Above: KQ partner Chef Philip serves as the guest taste tester for Season 4, Episode 8.

ON THE SET: Taping the Rainbow Swirl Cookie Episode

KQ host Mitch Hightower demonstrates his recipe for making Rainbow Swirl Cookies using puff pastry and brightly colored sanding sugars in this new video.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ_B6Y09V94&spfreload=5

Below: Mitch showing off the finished Rainbow Swirl Cookies. 

Catch Up With Kitchen Queers on Twitter

Above; A KQ logo mug with a trio of Rainbow Swirl Cookies.

Catch Up With Kitchen Queers on Twitter

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RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Rainbow Palmiers Round Two

Above: The second attempt at PALMIERS.

RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Rainbow Palmiers Round Two

KQ host Mitch Hightower baked another batch of RAINBOW PALMIERS, and we're pleased to report this round is much more aesthetically pleasing than the first. Look for this recipe to be featured in an upcoming Kitchen Queers Season 4 video.

Below: Six colors of sanding sugar were used for the RAINBOW PALMIERS.

Above: For the second test bake, half of the dough was rolled up and cut into "swirl" style cookies.

Below: The rainbow "swirl" cookies right after baking.

Above: The RAINBOW SWIRL puff pastry cookies are quite colorful.

RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Rainbow Palmiers

Above: The first KQ experiment with rainbow palmiers.

RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Rainbow Palmiers

In preparation for an upcoming KQ video, today we made Rainbow Palmiers. We need to perfect our rolling/folding technique regarding the puff pastry dough so that the end results are more aesthetically pleasing. Otherwise, they taste great!

More to come regarding this easy-to-prepare sweet treat recipe!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmi4fJQ4cVNHfHFu09RK25g

Below: Sugar has been spread on a board in preparation for making palmiers. 

Above: Puff pastry has been thawed from frozen to room temperature.

Above: The filling sugar, in eight colors, has been added to the puff pastry.

Above: Following a folding technique, the puff pastry roll is cut into slices.

Above: The puff pastry palmiers are situated on parchment paper and ready to bake.

Above: Rainbow Palmiers right after coming out of the oven.

RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Dried Cherry Shortbread Cookies

Above. The cookies cooling on a wire rack.

RECIPE EXPERIMENTS: Dried Cherry Shortbread Cookies

KQ partner Chef Philip baked his buttery shortbread cookie recipe with the addition of chopped, dried cherries and topped with pink and red sanding sugar. Everyone in the kitchen gobbled these up fast!

HOLIDAY FYI: We Hear Santa Likes Chocolate Cookies

Above: Chef Philip's Chocolate Cookies.

HOLIDAY FYI: We Hear Santa Likes Chocolate Cookies

by Chef Mitch

KQ partner and resident baker Chef Philip shares his recipe for chocolate cookies, just in time to bake up a batch to leave out for Santa!  Check out the recipe and photo tutorial here: http://www.kitchenqueers.com/food/chocolatecookies/

REMINDER: Enlarge the images by clicking on them.

Below: Plenty of high quality cocoa is added to give these cookies a rich chocolate flavor. 

Baking on a Rainy San Francisco Day

Above: KQ Butterscotch Brownies.

BAKING ON A RAINY SAN FRANCISCO DAY

by Chef Mitch

After three years of drought, we finally got a good soaking the past 24 hours.  Rainy days always put me in the mood for baked goods.  Chef Philip whipped us up a batch of Butterscotch Brownies earlier this afternoon and we just finished gorging on them.  Chef Philip likes the edge and corner pieces.  I like the middle pieces with no edge.  Chef Bob seems to like them all.

Below: Chocolate cookies are another good rainy day baking choice.