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.
milky way!
Anything Peanutbutter! Especially Reese’s fast breaks!! I usually bribe my kids out of them!!
That chewy peanut butter candy that is wrapped in orange and black that you can only get at Halloween – PEANUT BUTTER KISSES!
Candy corn, hands down!
Mini Milky Way with an aple- a bite of Milky Way then a bite of crisp apple- yum!
It might be a bit cliche’ but it really truely is candy corn. Now that live in the UK I miss candy corn a lot. The USA grocery suppliers charge a pretty high price for it, so I have to hope my mom sends me some!!
This book looks like a lot of fun!!
x
Reese peanut butter cups!!!!!!
Candy corn pumpkins… hands down the yummiest (non-chocolate) candy EVER!
In my country we do not celebrate Helloween in a way that you do in USA. I mean we meke ghoasts from pumpinks and that’s about it. Otherwise I don’t eat anykind of candys – if I eat seet, than I prefer icecream or fruity and creamy desserts;-)
Any bite-size chocolate bars!! :)
Twix- any size!
Gum. The little round ones. Does that count?
My favorite Halloween candy is candy corn for sure!!!
Cola Cubes. I don’t know if you have them state-side, but they are delicious!
candy corn/pumpkins
Peanut M&Ms – I’m obsessed with peanuts, and with chocolate? Even better.
I’m not really sure if you would consider this candy or not, but I love caramel covered popcorn balls!
I lived all of my childhood between the States and Canada so now that I’m back at my native Spain, I REALLY REALLY REALLY miss Halloween and all of the Halloween treats. But the one treat that IS Halloween for me is Candy Corn. We have an American Store here in Madrid and I’m going to see if they have any so my 1 year old son can try them. It would be great!
I don’t know if I maybe liive too far away to participate, but it would be great!! Thanks!!
nutrageous… i love the full size ones too, but for some reason the snack size ones taste just a bit better.
Almond Joy hands down is my fav. Thankfully no one in the house likes them but me though last year my daughters didn’t get a single one.
My favorite Halloween candy are Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
Those orange and black peanut butter flavored wrapped candy, I don’t know the name of them though.
It has to be candy corn, or starbursts, or maybe it’s air heads…I can’t decide!
Candy Apples <3 Candy Corn <3 Rocky Road Bars <3 = Yummylusious
Those cookies look divine! My favorite Halloween candy is candy corn!
I would have to say candy corn with peanuts! Very good combo! Or Reese’s peanut butter cups! Or Baby Ruth’s. Ok. As long as my kids share, it’s a favorite! but I don’t even really like candy can you tell? Haha.
It’s hard to pinpoint just one but if I had to it would be Smoothies. Like Mallow cups but made with peanut butter….yummmmm
Hershey’s Kiss puts out a seasonal all Orange colored Kiss that is A-MAZE-ING! I can’t think of the name exactly but wowee-zowee is it good. I would love to have a recipe using them in it, but I can’t keep them around long enough to try.
Hi Bakerella!
These look delicious, I’m already looking forward to having the time to try them out!
My favourite Halloween candy is birthday cake! Since my birthday is the day after Halloween (1st of november), and we have a weird family tradition to celebrate birthdays the evening before the birthday itself (kinda like Christmas Eve, I guess…)
But we also have a first of november tradition to eat crepes that day! In Dutch they are called “pannenkoeken” which looks like “pancakes”, but they are a lot different and supposed to be much thinner than American pancakes, which makes them yummie:)
REESES!!!
I had to buy my favourite Halloween treat of candy corn from an Australian company that imports American food, and it just arrived the other day…..so excited! Must. Not. Eat. Until Halloweeeeeeeeeen.
Reese’s!!!
I LOVE RECESE AND CANDY CORN! And anything chocolate or chocolate with peanuts or peanut butter…and butterfingers!!!
Awesome, Bakerella!
Ah, that’s a hard one! I LOVED Halloween as a kid and Trick-or-Treated for as many years as I could, even into my twenties. (Don’t judge me.)
Buuut I’d have to say my favorite is those Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup pumpkins they put out every year. YUUUUUMMM!
How many licks does it take? Tootsie Pops for me :)
Even though Halloween isn’t really celebrated here in Europe (I’m Belgian but live in the Netherlands; big dissapointment that Halloween isn’t celebrated there!) I looooove sugar skulls. Made them myself last year and they were no good though. I’ll be sure to try them again this year; aswell as these chocolate meringues from the book; they look delish <3
We don’t really celebrate Halloween over here (booh) but my favourite fall treat is most definitely caramel apples!
Toffee apples! yum yum yum
Peanut butter M&Ms. Just discovered these in Australia and they are AMAZING!
My favorite Halloween-only item would actually be those orange and black Mary Janes. Some people hate them but I think they’re disgustingly delicious! But my favorite all-round funsize candy that any trick-or-treat bag should not be without has to be Reeses cups. Simply the best.
It’s toss-up between mini Snickers and Kit-Kats.
Sounds so good would love to try them. Would also love the book.Hope u are feeling better!!!!!
Candy Corn, nom-nom-nom! :-D
They look so yummy!
tootsie rolls! :)
I always get sucked in by candy corn. And then I eat too many. And then I get a stomach. And then I repeat the process!
Halloween is probably my favorite holiday!!! And my favorite candy is any kind of tootsie roll… Lollipop, bite size, flavored I love them… My son is 3 1/2 and loves them too … It’s going to be WWIII here trying to sneak them from his candy stash this year!!!
I would adore this cookbook! Baking is my forte and my passion. My favorite Halloween candy is the pumpkin shaped Reeses.
Caramel popcorn!
peanut butter cookies !!
I cross my fingers
As for things that I only get at Halloween time, that would be candy corn. When I was a kid I would eat the white, orange, and yellow parts in separate bites. :o)
The giant pumpkins (like the candy corn) I do not allow myself to eat them until October and I cannot have them after October. This keeps them highly desired and delightful! Confession time: I also love to “steal” the big fat tootsie roll candies from my kids trick or treat goodies! ;)
Hurry up October!!!
WoW! Congrats on getting in the book! You deserve to be among these remarkable people. I love Williams Sonoma – would be nice to have their store in BP. Have a nice week!
i think i’d have to choose peanut butter cups. home made though, since i live in germany and it’s kinda hard to get the reese’s ones.
Kit Kat bars for sure! Can’t even buy them for trick or treaters b/c they disappear magically before Halloween starts!
anything chocolate
Candy corn, but not the chocolate ones.
candy corn!!! :)
I don’t really like candies, but if I had to choose I’d definitely go for M&Ms (all chocolate or peanuts)!
Twix or peanut butter cups – they tie for first place!!! Yum!
Candy corns!!!!! Mmmmmm
I´ll pick classic pumpkin pie…
Thanks for the giveaway!
Wow! so many comments… hey, is it open to oversea readers? I guess no… I’ll have to purchase the book online :) anyway, doesn’t eat much candies (though I work less than a mile away from Haribo’s factory shop… first year working there and I ate more candies than in the rest of my life I think!) but my favorite would definitively be chocolate gummy bears! does that count as Halloween candy? :)
im always a sucker for those little gummy hamburgers!!! i forget what they are called but you cant confuse them lol. they are so yummy!!
I love the Candy Corn but haven’t decided which flavor yet, they keep coming out with some great flavors.
I would say my favorite halloween candy is……………Caramel Appels.i used to have them as a kid and my grandma would buy me ! everytime i went shopping with her :) i just love this book ur giving away :) :) :) :) :)
Twizzlers, Mr GoodBar, Sweedish Fish, Laffy Taffy- why have I gained weight?!?!
Candy Corn
Smarties! Halloween is the only time of the year I get to eat them! :)
My favourite Halloween candies are probably Oh Henry chocolate bars! Followed closely by Cadbury’s Dairy Milk squares (I put some peanut butter on them – SO DELICIOUS)
I like all sorts of chocolate candies. :)
oh, and thank you for the awesome giveaway!
They look sooo good. Looking forward to next weekend to try them!
MARSHMALLOWS!! I wish Halloween was big in Australia as it is in America :)
Fun size Snickers!!!!!
I am from the UK and we don’t really have candy specifically for Halloween, but if we count halloween baking, well sweet pumpkin bread is very good! xx
pumpkin-apple muffins
Here in Australia we are just getting on the Halloween bandwagon, but I have always wanted to try a pumpkin cheesecake ! :)
We don’t really celebrate halloween where I come from (Iceland), but my favorite candy is Reese’s pb cups! So delicious! Anything that tastes like pb is heavenly;)
I’ll have to go classic and say candy corn–my favorite are the runts that are only two colors! But let’s face it, I will eat any of the delicious miniature size Halloween treats that are put in front of me! : )
Anything chocolate…so I have a feeling these will be my new favorite!!!!!!
I love candy corn but i think the coolest halloween treat is a pink mousse hand with red jelly. creepy but yum
definitely candy corn! my husband just doesn’t understand why i like them so much! lol
congrats on your shout out :)
Pretzel M&Ms are my faves any time of year!
Candy corn!
Love, love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
Congrats on your contribution to the book!
I love caramel apples and Dots!
I like Tootsie Rolls. Chocolaty, chewy, and just the right size to sneak into long afternoon meetings at work. (And the wrappers don’t crinkle when you open them–which is another definite plus.)
white chocolate kit-kat or smarties
peanut butter cups!! Preferably, the reese’s in the shape of a pumpkin. So good!
Oooh, I would love to win this cookbook!! My favorite Halloween candy has to be the caramel apple suckers, yum!
When I think of Halloween candy, I definitely think of candy corn. Love the orange/yellow color, love the shape, love the taste!
I don’t like candy but I go weak at the knees for anything pumpkin, like muffins, scones, pies etc. Those chocolate meringues look delicious.
candy corns!!!
Dark chocolate Reese’s peanut butter cups. Yum!
MY favorite Halloween candy is candy corn. I know it’s available all year long but it tastes a million times better when the atmosphere screams Halloween!
twix!
hershey’s kisses !
candy corn pumpkins!
I love em all, well all that don’t have nuts! OK if I have to I go for the crunch bar. Chocolate with rice crispies, yummy.
Caramel Apples would be my favorite!!!
peanut butter taffy!! or anything that was put in my pillow case bag!
My favs are miniature snickers bars. Perfect ratio of everything I love!
Well I’m another Aussie so no Halloween = no Halloween candy *sad face* However my favourite lollies are toffee apples, chocolate (which I’m craving a lot at the moment- 7 months pregnant) and anything mint flavoured (yep I’m the daughter of a dentist)!
My favorite Halloween candy is the tiny little Twix bars; not the snack size, the ones that are even smaller!!! SO YUMMY from the freezer! Thanks for the chance to win such a cute book!
Sugar Daddy & Sugar Babies for sure!! Sooo bad for you teeth, but so yummy!
Definitely Candy Corn… but the pumpkin shaped ones (cause there’s more to them :) ) Yum!
Candy corn is by far my favorite! But only at Halloween. I have tried them at different times of the year, only to discover I don’t like them as much! I know, it’s weird.
Reese’s Peanut Butter Pumpkins…hands down.
Hershey’s Cookies n’ Creme bars !
Kraft caramels!!!!
hey bakerella,
i absolutely love your blog!! i think my favorite halloween candy is either sour patch kids or kit kats. im dont eat candy all the time but when i do it would be those.
I would have to agree with Amy #100, but I’d also add caramel corn to that!
What an awesome book! I just bought a Williams Sonoma kids cookbook and couldn’t believe as I turned each page that I wanted to cook/bake everything! EVERYTHING! I knew that I had to have that book and I know I’d love to win this one!
I’m so glad you’re doing better.
I love Skittles and Reese’s any time of the year!
My fav halloween candy/ food has to be Pumpkin pie! Only had it onec when i visited the US, but tasted absolutely great!!!
Mini almond joy!
My favorite is M & M’s.
Kit Kats by far. Break anytime. (:
All things chocolate :)
Peanut m&m’s! I just love them so much (: Also candy apples – They really are the absolute epitome of Halloween for me!
i LOVE pumpkin sugar cookies!!
The mellowcreme pumpkins from the candy corn mix….oh and yes, m & m’s!!!!
Candy Corn. I love Snickers too, but they’re available all year round!
twix and sour patch!
Love the candy corn!
Something out of this book would be fantastic. But since I am from Australia it would have to be a caramello koala!
Can people from other countries also submit?
If so… My fav are candy apples. I’ve never eaten them. But when we go shopping in Aachen (Germany) around X-mastime, they sell them on the ‘Weihnachtsmarkt’. They look so shiny and pretty.
Love’m! They remind me of the Beetleborgs with Jay Lenno look-a-like Flabber (Yeah! Old school).
Groeten uit Nederland (HOLLAND)!
My favorite Halloween candy? Who can pick just one??? :)
Caramels. Plain old caramels that you’re *supposed* to use to make caramel apples. I just eat the caramels and leave the apples for DH. And Sixlets, which you can only find at Halloween and Easter!!
Thats a hard question – I have 2: Reeses Peanut butter cups and Mary Janes!
reese’s peanut butter cups! ( ?´?`? )
I don’t think we have Halloween candies per se, and I am not so much a candy fan…however, with that said, I do *very occasionally* enjoy a couple of sour worms here and there. :-)
Mini Butterfinger and Almond Joy Bars are equally loved by me!!
Kaixo!!! I come from Bilbao and here we do not celebrate Halloween as such. We do have what we call Saint’s Bones http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueso_de_santo and I love them! love marzipan :) My mon’s birthday is 2nd November and she used to buy as a few before her birthday so that we could start celebrating! Congratulations on your blog, you make baking such a beautiful thing!
Well, in Norway we dont really celebrate halloween so I dont know if there is supposed to be any special “halloween treats”, but my favourite candy is meringues (here we call them pikekyss, which means kiss from a girl) but I have only made normal ones, and M (which is almost like peanut M&Ms, only better;) )
Candy Corn–I love candy corn. But for candy that we give out, I always choose Snickers because I love putting the leftovers in the freezer to eat later! :-)
PS Can’t wait to make the Chocolate Meringues!
my favorite candy is reese’s peanut butter cup!! :)
Do I have to pick just one?? My sweet tooth is contagious and infected at least one other tooth, so I am going to say one for each: pumpkin shaped reese’s and bite sized snickers. If I could still pass for a kid, I would totally go trick or treating for those bad boys. ;)
Those meringues look AMAZING!!!
Kit Kat!
Congrats on the recipe in the book! Yum!
My fav Halloween candy is the sour candies. All year long though. HEHE.
I always enjoy homemade popcorn balls.. one of my neighbors growing up always made them for the “neighborhood kids”.. so it was always a delicious special treat for us! They are so yummy too!
I Love Reese’s PB cups……..
Mini 100 grands & brachs mellowcreme pumpkins!! Love you!
I love Nerd gumballs. Combines my 2 favorite things!
I’m old school, candy corn! But if you twist my arm, I might find some room for anything Reeses…..
Carmel apples for sure yummmm!!!
I love chocolate!!
Milky Way…for sure! I {heart} candy!!
i love candy corn, nerds, m&m crispy, reese’s banana and musketeers
My favorite Halloween candy are those cute little pumpkins, those little mellowcreme ones.
And I have a specific way to eat them, too. I bite off the green little top, the ‘stem’ first and then I pop the base in my mouth. Yummy!
peanut butter cups! :3
Oh, this book looks gorgeous!
It seems too early to be thinking about Halloween already. But if I had to pick a favorite Halloween candy, I’d have to say butterfingers! I think I was the only one who liked them, so we never had them any other time of year.
Ahhh….so many fabulous candies to choose from!! But my favorite Halloween candy is probably the little mini bags of candy you can buy….especially Bottlecaps!! I find they are so hard to find any other time of year, but a must have for Halloween!!!
The halloween kisses (molasses toffee) that come in the orange wrapper. They are a throwback to my childhood.
My favorite is anything chocolate, but for some reason every Halloween I find myself in search of chewy sweetarts! The ones that are like taffy, I can only find them at Halloween time. I am addicted! My mom always had to find the candies called bones, kind of a smarties taste but she always lived to help the kids build their skeletons with them. I haven’t found them in a few years. If anyone sees them let me know. I have to send out a Halloween care package to my sis, count chocula and frankenberry cereal are always in it too by the way! Happy halloween bakerella, oh and thank you for the recipe I love love love chocolate meringues.
Sharon
Oh, I’d love love love to win this fantastic book! Everything in it looks so tasty and great! And I really love what you do, too!
As for Halloween, I like decorating homemade muffins and carrot cake with spiders, spider’s webs, ghosts and monsters – so much fun, especially for the kiddies! If it should be some purchased candy, I love everything covered in chocolate! :-) Even better, something covered in chocolate and filled with caramel! :-))
Ooh, this is tough. I’d have to go with caramel apples or my chocolate dipped pears. Now I want one!
I’m a sucker for candy corn. To this day I can’t pass up a bag, if I do I’m shocked with myself :)
My favorite Halloween candy would have to be Reese’s Pieces – love the chocolate and peanut butter combo!
We don’t really get special Halloween candy over here, but anything involving chocolate is fine with me.
I LOVE peanut butter kisses. I know they are kind of the outcast of Halloween candies, as they are not fancy or extremely popular, but they are a guilty pleasure as soon as the pumpkins starting rolling out.
caramel..or candy corn…or anything really…….
Oh my gosh, those look fabulous. My favorite halloween candy is probably snickers. When I was a kid, it was milk duds for sure! Now I can’t stand how they get stuck in my teeth. My siblings and I used to gather our booty together at the end of the night and trade until we all had the candy we liked and had given away the candy we didn’t like. Whenever we got almond joys, we would make a separate pile for my mom, because they are her favorite.
mini reeses!
that cookbook looks like one I desperately need! :)
Caramel corn and mini chocolate bars. But really, there aren’t many Hallowe’en treats that I would turn down!
I love kit kats!
I love kit kats!
In my country, we do not have Halloween. But baking with chocolate is my love and passion. Recipe books are my everyday novels. I really want to own this book. And if I can’t win it, I’ll have to hunt for it.
Butterfinger…mmmm….
Candy Corn!!! I can’t have halloween without candy corn and homemade pumpkin shaped rice krispy treats.
twixes!
nestle crunch :D
To be honest I have a serious addiction to candy corn!
My favorite halloween candy is the pumpkin candy corn
Candy Corn!
mini snickers! I always steal them for myself after trick-or-treating.
Candy corn ;)
Fruity Tootsie Rolls! Or Dum Dums.
Those toffees in the orange paper with cats & witches all over them! Worth having your teeth stuck together for!
Anything chocolate is my Favorite Halloween candy, but really if it is a chocolate eye ball or chocolate Frankenstein then that’s the best.
It’s a tie between candy corn and the mini snickers bars for me!
I live right by the Cadburys factory in Bournville and every year I love to get a tub of their trick and treat mix.
Caramel Apple Suckers!
Its not worth my time unless its REALLY good chocolate… other than that, I might eat a Reese Peanut Butter Cup or a Butterfinger. for old times sake! ; )
Congratulations on being in a William Sonoma book! I adore their Christmas cataloger – I can only image what their books are like- wonderful!!!
My favorite is snickers so that I can use them in a great peanut butter cookie recipe after Halloween :)
The Mallow Creme Punkins of course! ;)
Awesome :) I have to get it :)
we are not big on halloween in singapore but i love some cadbury hazelnut choclairs! ohh yumz.
Candy Corn and Smarties! (I know you can get smarties anytime during the year, but I won’t eat them unless it’s Halloween season!)
Those little orange pumpkin cremes. They’re almost too sugary, but it’s just not fall without them. What a wonderful book, so many of my favorites!
Coffee crisp! (I believe this is a canadian chocolate/candy confectionary). It is available year round, but I like the convenience of the fun sizes!
popcorn balls and caramel apples – the perfect combination for the best season of the year.
Twix!!!! Although my all-time favorite Halloween treat from a neighbor was a king-size Hershey’s bar!
Little miniature EVERYTHING!! Particularly mini sweet tarts!
Yum!
:)
Hmmm, it was always exciting to get something other than a mini chocolate bar, like jaw breakers, gum, or skittles. Jackpot!
Caramel apples FTW. Oh, and Clinkers too. That was the best Halloween game ever.
This could wreak havoc on myvwaistline. We are moving in a few weeks and baking (and eating baked goods) is a favorite stress reliever. Yum.
The caramel apple candy corn and popcorn balls. It’s the only time of year that I ever crave that stuff. And darn those stores for putting it up on their shelves in July!
Butterfingers are my favorites!
Mini mounds bars, although I don’t think I’ve seen them in awhile…
TWIX!