I want to show you this new book from Williams-Sonoma.
It’s filled with delicious photographs and tons of recipes including …
Pretzels.
Pop Tarts.
And pies to name a few.
Are your taste buds warming up yet? Mine sure are. I could hardly stand to flip through the pages of this book without wanting to make everything in it.
Home. Baked. Comfort. Yes, please.
And guess what, else.
This book also includes recipes from several bakeries and bloggers across the country.
Like Smitten Kitchen, Tartine, Cannelle et Vanille, Flour, Baked…
And more.
Maybe even one from someone you know.
With all this yumminess, it was really hard to decide what to bake first. I flipped through the book several times before I finally decided.
When I saw that one of the featured bakeries was from Minneapolis, I knew right away that was the one to try since I’ll be in Minnesota and at Williams-Sonoma in about two weeks for a book signing. (Details here.)
And now, I may just have to stop by this bakery, too.
Salty Tart. Cute name.
And her recipe for Chewy Chocolate Meringues is delish.
And easy.
And better yet, only needs four ingredients.
Finely chopped bittersweet chocolate.
Five tablespoons cocoa powder.
Sugar and egg whites.
This photo kinda makes them look like egg yellows though.
Whisk together the egg whites and sugar over – but not touching – simmering water until dissolved.
Remove from heat and beat the egg whites until stiff and glossy.
Then fold in the chocolate and cocoa.
Scoop out the batter on parchment lined baking sheets and bake away.
You want to see cracks. That’s part of what I love about this recipe. No need to try and make anything look perfect. These are already perfectly imperfect.
And oh so good.
They are highly addictive, too. I don’t want to tell you how many I ate before I even finished taking photos…
…but let’s just say that this photo is missing quite a few.
I’m so glad I tried this recipe. I’ve never made meringues before because they never really looked all that appealing to me. But wow! These chocolate ones will be made again. And again.
Thanks Salty Tart.
Adapted from Home Baked Comfort. * I omitted the cocoa nibs because I didn't have any on hand and the cookies still came out beautifully.
Chewy Chocolate Meringues
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
The recipe says it makes about 2 dozen meringues, but I ended up with about 60 using a 1.5 inch scoop. I also used a scale to measure my ingredients exactly.
Home Baked Comfort by Kim Laidlaw
Photographed by Eric Wolfinger
Featured Bakeries
Baked, Brooklyn, NY
Floriole Cafe & Bakery, Chicago, IL
Flour Bakery + Cafe, Boston, MA
Huckleberry Cafe & Bakery, Santa Monica, CA
Pearl Bakery, Portland, OR
Salty Tart Bakery, Minneapolis, MN
Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop, Austin, TX
Tartine Bakery, San Francisco, CA
Featured Bloggers
Cannelle et Vanille
La Tartine Gourmande
Smitten Kitchen
and me : )
The book is available at Williams-Sonoma until February 2012. Then you’ll also be able to find it on Amazon.
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Until then, want to win a copy?
You do. I promise.
Leave a comment on this post answering the following random question.
- What is your favorite Halloween candy?
- Deadline to enter is Tuesday evening, September 27th at 6:00 pm ET. SORRY, TIME’S UP!
- One winner will be picked at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.
Good Luck!
Disclosure: Giveaway sponsored by me. : )
And the winner is……
Myra – You’re gonna love this book.
The pumpkin shaped peanut butter cups of course, i swear they are better than the normal ones. perfect chocolate to peanut butter ratio!
I have to say this is a tough one. I just love fall and all of the colors, this includes candy. The Pumpkins and Candy corn mix it my favorite too.
We don’t celebrate Halloween but it is the best time of year to stock up on candy! But my favorite mini candies are either Twix or KitKats. Guess it depends on the day!
Candycorn!
I love Carmel apples!!!!
I absolutely love the autumn mix candy corn!!! When the end of August/beginning of September rolls around, I will stop in the drugstore every day just to see if candy corn is out. And when it is, I am in a candy corn coma for the rest of the fall!
I’m a sucker for really good candy corn, but a butterfinger or a twix in my basket is always nice to have :) (Last time there were so many candy bars left I crushed them into cake filling, yum!)
fav halloween candy are KITKATS!! I’m so excited to try baking your mini pumpkin pie bites for my office!
EVERY CANDY IS MY FAVORITE!
You think I’m kidding.
Fine, Almond Joy. :)
Definitely Candy Corn!!!
I love, love, love candy corns! Even better are the little candy pumpkins made of the same delicious, chewy, sweet stuff (only bigger)!
I pretty much love all candy, but Halloween is for candy corn. Yum!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
I love the holiday season! All the decorations and amazing treats I actually have a good excuse to make! After trick-or-treating I’d always eat the mini snickers first – they’re my favorite. But oh those chewy choclate meringues sound AMAZING!
Would LOVE to win this! Mini-Oh-Henry Bars is what I’m missing most about trick-or-treating!
Candy corn of course!
Hmm… I’ve only been trick or treating twice but if I had to pick I’d say that thoses little chocolate balls covered with foil to make them look like pumpkins are pretty cool :)
I absolutely love candy corn – they just say Halloween to me!
M&M’s are my favorite! Btw my wife made the meringues and they are good, very good!
Candy Corn that comes in different flavors!!
candy corn and the pumpkins too!!!
my favorite Halloween candy is any & all candy!
Funny story:
My favorite Halloween candy is one I have not tried – Hershey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses.
I recently discovered that these exist (while reading a magazine, I think), and I have been looking everywhere for them. Since I can’t find them locally, I think I may order them online and drool away the days waiting for them to arrive. I love all things pumpkin and, for that reason, I have developed a slight obsession with getting my hands (and my mouth) on those bites of heaven.
Tiny little butterfingers. I don’t feel as guilty eating them when they are so tiny and cute. I dig through the kids haul and take all of them out.
We don’t usually celebrate Halloween as a family and in the UK Halloween doesn’t seem to be celebrated like it is in the US anyway so it doesn’t get its own special candy;) I’ve just started making meringue recently and am so pleased with the results, tho I’ve never tried choc meringue before they look fab!!
sweet tarts
My fav halloween candy(which I still from my kids halloween bag by the way..shhh… :P) has to be REESES PIECES CHOCOLATE. I feel guilty buying them at the store but at halloween they are so miniature so what the heck not that many calories right! hahaha
I love the dum dum mini lollipops
I love candy corn…and any miniature candy bar.
Banana Laffy Taffy is my favorite Halloween candy! Actually, my all-time favorite is something very similar from my childhood, but it’s not made any more. It was a long, skinny banana taffy stick called a “witch’s broom”. :)
Milky Ways!
The best candy are snickers minis. Cram caramel, chocolate and peanuts into a tiny little package is AMAZING :) just like your cake pops!
Smarties! I also confess to a fondness for those wretched peanut butter taffies in the orange and black wrappers. You know, the ones that stick in your teeth for weeks afterward? :)
any kind of thing with chocolate… but no popcorn balls!!!
It’s a tie between dark chocolate Milky Ways and Mini reese’s peanut butter cups! Love, love, love them! Your meringues looked fabulous! Can’t wait to try them!
Kari
Candy corn!
REESE’S.
Don’t have a favorite Halloween candy per se, but in general the little snickers are my fave!
OMG! You will LOVE the Salty Tart. I interned there a couple of summers ago and my life was never the same. Michelle, the owner, is an absolutely wonderful person and you will adore her personality. She is one of the best, for sure! I attached a lnk to one of my posts about them, if you want to check it out beforehand. Have a wonderful time in the Twin Cities, I know you’ll love it :)
http://lifessimplemeasures.blogspot.com/2011/06/salt-tart-revisited.html
Classic candy corn. Always the best!
Congratulations on getting your recipe in a Williams-Sonoma book!!
My favorite Halloween candy is caramel apples. I remember trick-or-treating when I lived in New York and I received the best caramel apple from one of our neighbors!
Oooh, I want to make poptarts!
Favorite Halloween candy…Charleston Chews!
Candy corn!!!!
chocolate!! only the semi-real chocolates, though. the ones that don’t even try make my mouth sad.
CANDY CORN!!!
Candy corn!!
It would have to be caramel apples, if you consider that a candy! If not, then Twix it is!
Candy Corn!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Bats!
Peanut butter body parts! Toes, nose and fingers, wrapped in gruesome foils. So fun!
Candy Apple! I got it from a nice lady one year and it was fantasic!! :)
favorite candy no matter the time of year are Ben Heggy Tan centers. :)
Candy corn and the Brach’s autumn mix….mmmm love those little pumpkins!
My favorite Halloween candy is the molasses toffee…I sooo love this stuff…
My favorite haloween candy is definitely mini reeses cups. My sister and I used to spread our candy out on the table and trade all her reeses for my kitkats.
Sadly here in the Netherlands we don’t really celebrate Halloween :( Would love to try the famous candy corn! (Have managed to find peanut butter cups once in Amsterdam, LOVED them and have been making my one version since!)
best classic Halloween candy?? candy corn, hands down. But i have to say, nothing beats a candy or caramel apple!! :)
Nerds and Reeses were always my favorites when I would go through my bag of halloween candy as a kid, and still are my favorites!
Reese Peanut Butter Cups! Or Twix….Wait…Malted Milk Balls. NO BUTTERFINGERS.
I love the look of candy corn the best, but I absolutely love Reese’s. Any shape or form of candy with chocolate and peanut butter is absolute perfection to my tongue.
This book looks great!!
Favorite Halloween candy.. hmm… Reese’s pumpkins!! They are a house favorite, we have to get tons of packs! =]
lollipops
This book looks great….love your site….. would love to see more recipies from it….
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
My favorite Halloween candy is homemade carmel corn. My mom used to make it every Halloween and I really looked forward to it.
Candy corn
Candy Corn all the way!!
Milky Way, Kit Kat, -things I would not normally buy to eat, but LOVE!
Gee, its so difficult to pick just one. My all time favorites are Twix bars or caramels!
Fun-size Nutrageous bars! But they’re becoming harder and harder to find…
I love plain ol’ caramels!
Glad you’re feeling better! My husbands birthday is coming up and I’m going to use your mini cupcake recipe except with oreo’s at the bottom1
Well, it’s not really a “candy” but caramel apples! My Mom always bought caramel apples for us around halloween time as our after school snack. :-)
I loooove butternut squash muffins (with marshmallow frosting…) slurp!
Almond Joy! :-)
Reeses pumpkins! See you in MN!
100 grand. Chocolate and caramel. Just so good.
I want this book! DELISH! My favorite halloween candy is candy corn! My youngest daughter and I typically fight over the last few left in the bag!! Yummy!
I love Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups, but would love to have the new cookbook featuring my favorite bloggers including you! Hope that you are doing well!
Anything chocolate!!!! Miniature candy bars, M&M’s, Tootsie Rolls, etc. I love it all! :)
Candy Corn!!!
Hi Bakerella!
I’m Hope from France and I might say, I’m addicted to your website and all your wonderful work. WAW!!!
My favorite candy is the candy corn, love them!
Wishing you the best in Mineapolis
I didn’t have to think twice about this – CANDY CORN!
Caramel Apples with nuts is my favorite for sure!!
Peanut m&ms!
candy corn!!!
Milk duds!
caramel apple candy corn! I don’t like regular candy corn, but these are awesome :)
My new favorite candy gotta be pumpkin spice hersey’s chocolate!
My favorite Halloween candy is Almond Joy bars, mmmmmm!
When I was little, I used to love that assortment of mini Hershey bars
Dare I say it? Candy corn! Only at Halloween, though!
Congratulations Lady!! My favorite Halloween candy (and every day) is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
All time favorite candy : SOUR PATCH! Haha. I could eat it all year, but halloween (and my birthday) is a pretty good excuse ;)
Candy corn without a doubt!
It’s a toss up between the Reese PB cups and the mini twix. LOVE both :)
Reese’s cups for sure! There is no going wrong with chocolate and peanut butter :)
I love those Smarties… Would pop every bit of it!!
anything chocolate i can not say no to chocolate we wait for the candy to be on sale after halloween and go crazy… so our kids have their candy and mommy and daddy have theirs as well.
straight up candy corn :)
I like the mini bite sized everything! hehe. It makes you feel less ‘guilty’ about having a taste of each candy bar! And they fit perfectly in your purse, hand, wherever! =)
Candy Corn YUM YUM YUM
Caramel popcorn or caramel apples! And I also can’t say no to Reese’s pieces and cups. :]
Smarties, or sweet tarts in the 3 piece package. Im not big on chocolate, shocking I know.
I love candy corn! I know it’s the cheap, crappy candy of Halloween, but I love it!
My favorite Halloween candy is Brach’s Candy Corn. I even had a bag at Easter as I hoard it!!! No on eelse in my house likes it-how nice for me!!!
Starburst and Halloween colored MnM’s!
candy corn of course!! It’s the only appropriate time to eat it :)
I love Reese’s PB cups, but for Halloween I always loved getting Kit Kats. They were my mom’s favorite and it was fun to see her sneak one or two out of the bowl :)
I’ve got to give it to Snickers. They’re always the first to be picked out of my daughter’s loot.
Candy : mini Kit Kat or Twix maybe?
Halloween Treat though : Spiced Cider and Oatmeal Spice Cookies…nom nom nom…
My favorite Halloween candy is 100,000 bars!!!!
Favourite halloween candy has got to be those mini mars bars!
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups! Such a treat. X
Ok, so my favorite is mounds bars…only on Halloween!! It’s great, because my kids give me all the ones they get- Can’t wait!!!:)
Candy corn is my favorite Halloween candy!
Candy Corn Taffy! It’s amazing, only place I’ve been able to find it is Walmart. Yum!!
My favorite Halloween candy are carmels.
So many choices, but I’ll stick with the tried and true – mini Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. They’re small, so you can eat a bunch! :)
Candy corn! and dots…..
Mini butterfingers and candy corn
Those adorable little pumpkins! YUM!
Caramel apples. Nom nom nom!!!
My favorite Halloween candy is twix!
Reese’s Nutrageous candy bar
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are the world’s most perfect candy… Halloween or otherwise!! :D
Candy corn, of course! Ok, I like Peep ghosts too. :-)
Recently, I’ve really started liking the Hershey’s Nuggets, the ones with the toffee bits in it. So tasty. But my favorites will always be Resee’s Peanut Butter Cups. Doesn’t matter how big they were, they were always saved for last when I was sorting through my stash after a night of trick or treating when I was younger.
M&M’s and Reese Peanut Butter cups!!! YUM!
the taffy with the peanut butter in the center! that or candy corn!
I love caramel popcorn! And because I found the perfect recipe, I love it even more!
homemade caramel apples are the absolute best!!
Definitely candy corn!
Picking one favorite candy is tough.. but I’d have to say Reese’s pb cups!
My favorite Halloween candy……it’s a tie between candy corn and caramel apples!
What is your favorite Halloween candy? Candy corn – hands down. It’s so fresh and chewy this time of year! And it’s great with peanuts (which makes a quick , easy treat for a fall bake sale!)
My favorite halloween candy is reese’s pumpkins. reese’s is my favorite in general so i love any excuse to eat them.
I’d have to say my favorite Halloween candy is the little pumpkins that are like candy corn :)
We don’t really do Halloween here, but I’d love to try candy corn one day. I guess the one thing I can think of that’s relevant is toffee apples…. I could eat the caramel off those all day!
My daughter knows that when she’s done trick-or-treating, the tootsie rolls belong to Mom….
The candy corn pumpkins! Unless I come across black and orange spice gumdrops, then it’s s delightful combo of all of these. The book looks fantastic – congratulations on being one of the featured bloggers!
I love carmel apples, but for a treat for the kids I would pick m & m’s. :)
We don’t usually celebrate Halloween in Argentina… but anything involving chocolate is fine with me!! Love, Laura
can’t resist candy corn – even though it burns my throat after a few too many! congrats on the book!
I love all halloween candy. I figure if it comes in a teeny tiny wrapped package, the calories can’t possibly count! But if I had to pick one… argh… umm.. Wunderbars :)
as an adult, I love the little candy corn pumpkins, but as a kid the best Halloween candies were Reece’s peanut butter cups.
Chocolate
I almost fainted when I saw The Salty Tart!
I used to work there and it it a great bakery and a fun place to work! I love it there and miss it quite often…
My favorite Halloween candy is…..good Lord, who knows, I love almost anything chocolate! However, I love the mini Heath candy bars – Halloween is the only time I will buy them!
I make sure the Kit Kat, Payday, Twix, and Snickers are on the bottom of the bowl so they are less likely to be given away on Halloween.
I like to mix dry roasted peanuts with candy corn. Tastes like a Pay Day candy bar! Oh so yummy and very festive when placed in a pretty jar on the counter!!
Candy corn and pumpkins. I buy them separately so there aren’t leftovers from the autumn mix.
Hm…Favorite Halloween candy? Mostly the same kinds of candy I like year round except for one guilty pleasure: Candy corn.
I always reach for the Reeses Peanut Butter cups. So good!
My favorite candy are Tootsie Rolls! YYYuuuummmmm!
It’s Brach’s Autumn Mix. We have been overseas for three years. and in the southern hemisphere no less, so no Thanksgiving and no fall candy. Now that we are back in the US, I bought some the day it showed up on the shelf. There’s a jar sitting on my Hoosier even as we speak!!
Have just found your site and love it!!! would also love this cook book yum :)
Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins!
Candy apples!
twix and hershey’s dark chocolate (the ones that are one single square so i can eat like 80 and still not feel like i did anything wrong) =)
My favorite halloween candy are candy corn pumpkins
Malted Milk Balls or Baby Ruth. Hmm… Toss up.
minis–almond joy, snickers, 3 musketeers , hershey, you name it!! chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!! thanks bakarella!!!
candy corn! :D
I have to say that my all time favorite Halloween candy is my regular favorite… bite-size Snickers!
Butterfingers!
Candy Corn!!!
My favorite Halloween candy is Kit Kat bars!
Peanut Butter M&M’s, of course! What else is better than chocolate and peanut butter???
Oh, and by the way . . . WAR EAGLE!
caramel apples with chocolate! As much fun to make as they are to eat! : )
I love Kit Kats! Thankfully they’re not just for Halloween :)
I love a Mr. Goodbar…but these meringues look yummy too!
Favorite Halloween candy is the mini Snickers or Hundred Grands…the boys know that momma gets first crack at one of those when she checks their candy bags!
My favorite Halloween candy is dark chocolate milky ways! Love Candy Corn, too.
I am addicted to candy corn.
Licorice!
I am a sucker for candy! Love a good Tootsie Pop, orange to be exact! Thanks Bakerella!!
By far kit kats. They go so well with tea or another kit kat.
Candy Corn! =)
Mini Mounds Bars……Love Dark Chocolate !!!
Nearly impossible to find: the Brach’s “Halloween Mix”– it has the elusive maple mallowcremes.
I will eat just about any kind of Halloween Candy! I can not choose a favorite! ;o)
I love all Halloween candy to be honest. But my favorite would have to be caramel apples with chocolate drizzle… YUMMY…
Candy corn!!
Kit Kats!! I would always eat them as fast as I got them! :)
Love me some candy corn!! At least until I eat so much that I feel sick….but until that point, it’s fabulous! :)
I’ve been known to eat a whole bag of Brach’s Candy Corn without sharing!
I’m in the UK, so it has to be Cadburys Scream eggs!!
Mellowcreme pumpkins and candy corn! Just bought my first bag this week :)
all candies are my favourite candy ;)
Favorite halloween candy would have to be fun size Twix!
Candy Corn!
I always dig through my kids’ Halloween buckets to steal the mini peanut butter cups. Gimme some!
i love snickers!! This Book looks great!!
Lori R
Candy corn!!!!
Candy Corn!
3 musketeers…I always “check” the trick or treat bag to make sure there is nothing bad in it, but it’s really to take all those out!
just discovered candy corn and liked it for the first time in my life since 1st grade. :)
twix bars!
Tootsie Rolls!!! I always remember getting so many of them so I guess I just learned to love them :]
Ok, I hate auto correct! Halloween not allowed and nougat not mounts. Ugh.my favorite Halloween candy are the peanut nougats in the orange or black wax wrappers!
Everything looks delicious! My favorite allowed candy is the peanut mounts in the orange or black wax wrappers! Everyone always throws those away but I LOVE them!