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.
Halloween Hershey Kisses! So good!
I adore caramel apples and the black and orange wrapped taffy that no one wants, it is soooo yummy!
I’m not a huge candy fan, but I go crazy when I see those vanilla flavored tootsie rolls. Usually, I can talk my nieces and nephews into sharing one of their pieces with me.
Um anything with chocolate?? I would have to say those Pumpkins from the candy corn mixes. I keep a bag in my desk at work and just sneak them all day!
I love meringues and William Sonoma…. this ones will definitely fave to try them…maybe will bring to my teacher and get extra points lol
Mini Three Musketeers…and caramel apples…
My favorite Halloween candy is Candy Corn!! I love it!
My Fav Halloween Candy is Caramel Apples. Thanks for the chance to win.
If it has chocolate, it’s my favorite! Thanks for the chance.
Candy Corn – hands down!! But only the original yellow orange white.
My favorite Halloween candy is probably those caramel apple suckers (or lollipops, as most of you probably call them).
I love candy corn (and the pumpkins)!
I would love to win this book, but I will certainly buy it if I don’t! LOVE it. My favorite Halloween candy used to be the little coffins w/ sweet tart like bones in it…but I haven’t seen that in forever, so probably wax lips! Love that from my childhood.
Mini chocolate bars all the way! I can’t pick just one.
My favorite halloween candy is Twix bars, although I can technically eat them all year round I suppose…
Necco Peanut Butter Kisses
I love the snack-sized Nestle Crunch bars. Normally I can’t stand them but for some reason when they are SMALL they taste BETTER!!!
Candy corn, all the way! :)
Snickers. But my favorite Halloween treat is pumpkin donuts!
Candy Corn. Love it!!
It’s hard to pick a favorite as I’m quite a fan of candy, but I’d probably have to choose Reece’s cup. Love them!
I love Reese’s pumpkins….not that the shape changes the taste, but it seems more de-lish somehow!
I love candy corn! I keep seeing all these surveys saying it is the least popular Halloween candy but I love it. Judging by the rest of the comments, I am certainly not alone!
My favorite are the dots! Or fruit flavored tootsie rolls.
I love candy corn!
Reese’ pumpkins….yummmo
Snickers and Reese’s PB Cups! Yum!!
ooo…it’s a hard one…i’d say mini kit kats! oh and those tiny packets of sweet tarts!
Ugh, on my list of favourite things, Halloween candy is near the bottom. I’m just not a fan. I suppose anything homemade would be my favourite, the rare house where you got fresh chocolate chip cookies. Of course then your parents wouldn’t want you to eat them so… this is probably why I’m not a big fan of Halloween today. I AM a fan of homemade baked goods though, so I do hope I win the book :)
Anything chocolate! :)
Hi Bakerella,
My favorite Halloween candy to make are caramel chocolate covered pretzels! I had to tell you how much it makes my day to open my email and see that I have a post from Bakerella. It is like that movie “you’ve Got MAil”. …..I love to see that word.. BAKERELLA
Planning on seeing you in a couple weeks at Williams-Sonoma in the Twin Cities…love your blog!
My favorite Halloween candy is Candy Corn mixed with salty nuts, sweet and salty!
What a neat looking book!
Favorite Halloween candy…probably Twix. Or Reese’ peanut butter cups. I love fun sized candy. Probably too much.
I used to love to get Sixlets during my trick or treating adventures. I’d trade with my friends who were crazy over pb cups. I had forgotten about that. Yum!
Kitkats! Or, now dont judge me, those candy sugar sticks that used to be called candy cigarettes. :-D
Reeses by far!!! :)
What a great book to share with us! I can’t wait to make this yummy recipe. My favorite item to swipe from my kiddos’ Halloween bag are the butterfingers and peppermint patties!
Butterfingers!!!! Yum!
Candy corns are my all time favorite although this year I am strangely addicted to the peanut butter M&M’s!
Love it when my kids get tiny boxes of milk duds. And NERDS!
My favorite is reese’s peanut butter cups……..
this book looks awesome! Thanks for the chance to win!
milk duds!
Caramel apples are my favorite Fall treat!
M&Ms!!!!
Mini Snickers are irresistable. Any bags purchased prior to the actual day of halloween will be subject to quality testing by ME!
Love Halloween!!! And Reeses Peanut Butter Cups :)
My favorite Halloween candy is candy corn. It reminds me of my grandmother. She used to have jars of candy corns throughout the house. It’s one of the only candies I eat! A friend even gave me a bag at my wedding!
Definitely candy corn!!
I have to say the itty bitty snack size Twix are my fav!! ;)
Can I only pick one? That’s too hard! I guess I’d have to go with candy corn. I just love them!
Milk Duds! I always steal them from my kids!
My favorite candy is candy corn and peanuts mixed together – it taste like a salty nut roll. While you are in Minneapolis, you must visit Cocoa & Fig – they make the most delicious cupcakes and cake pops.
Reese’s peanut butter cups!!!!
Candy corn, because you eat it and also decorate with it in so many ways!!
What else, peanut butter cups!!!
Candy corn pumpkins and the pumpkin shaped reese’s peanut butter cups!
I love candy corn mixed with peanuts! But Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins are a very close second. This book looks divine. Thanks for sharing.
Reese’s peanut butter cups!
Definitely Sour Punch Straws. One year I got a huge tub of them to hand out to trick or treaters and ended up eating half the tub myself!
Butterfingers!
Reeses Peanut Butter cups, hands down!~ But I will be stocking up on candy corn this year, as I just found out it’s an ingredient in homemade BUTTERFINGERS! Yum!
Reese’s PB cups – anytime of the year!
First I want to say you have been such a wonderful inspiration, thank you so much for that! And I wish you were in Minneapolis this Wednesday instead of in a few weeks. We will be there for my son’s eye surgery and would absolutely love to meet you and thank you in person. You will have to come to South Dakota soon. As far as Halloween candy, ALL of it is yummy for the tummy! But I would definitely choose mallowcreme pumpkins!!! And my kids would agree too.
Butterfingers!
Thinking back to my trick or treating days, I always LOVED the flavored tootsie rolls (especially the orange) that I’d get in my candy basket. I consider it Halloween candy because until recently I’d never see those in the store and they were a special treat come Halloween time.
My favorite Halloween candy is Twix. I don’t think my kids even know those come in the snack size because I raid their stash and remove all the Twix before they can eat them. ;)
Peanut butter m&m’s!
Candy corn and the pumpkins from the autumn mix!!!
Anything Reese’s…I love peanut butter and chocolate!
My favorite is Candy Corn. I use it to bake and decorate cookies. I also love Sixlets
I’m obsessed with Halloween, and chocolate, so I’ll pretty much eat any kind of chocolate candy! M&Ms are pretty great. However, yesterday I got my free Godiva truffle for October (through the Godiva chocolate rewards thing) and I picked out the Pumpkin Cheesecake truffle. YUM.
Candy Corn all the way! I OD on that stuff, its sooo good. It just seems to taste better in the fall:)
Tootsie Rolls and Pops. Yum.
Love those little mini candy bars!…ALL. FLAVORS. :)
Snickers. I know it sounds unHalloween, but I usually only eat them then.
I love candy corn. The pumpkin candy corn is even better because there is more of it!
I love any chocolate covered marshmallow treat: ghosts or pumpkins…and any miniature Hershey’s bars…rockets…oh I could go on and on!
Reese’s cups-frozen :) Those banana cupcakes of yours sound so yummy!
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups!
I haven’t made meringue cookies in years, and I’ve never made chocolate ones so I am so gonna try these. My favorite candy any time of the year is anything chocolate.
Reece Cups are my favorite :)
Goodness, I love all Halloween candy! I guess my favorite would be reeses but I love what my siblings and I call ‘the monster cereals’ aka Boo berry, Franken Berry and Count Chocula. I am always really excited when they come out and stock up!
I love Brach’s mellow creme candy, there like the candy corn or pumpkins, but there flavored. Maple, banana, and chocolate… oohhh so good.
The other is the triple chocolate KIT KAT. It only comes in the variety pack of KIT KAT. LOVE THEM!!!!
I love those Palmers brand chocolate and peanut butter disks. They come in a mix bag of other chocolate candy and they are my absolute favorite!!!!
Anything that is SWEET is my favorite candy!!
Candy corn, especially when you put it on top of a cake ball!
the classics! candy corn!
Peanut Butter Cups…Definetely peanut butter cups. I would trade anything else to my sister to get more peanut butter cups!
butterfingers!
Hands down, candy pumpkins!!
Almond Joy!
My fav is chocolate…anything choc…yummy! Congratulations on your publication! Thank you for the recipe, I am on a gluten free diet and this recipe fits the bill! Thank you!
Caramel apples are my favorite fall food, but my favorite Halloween candy is whatever I can pilfer from my kids Halloween bags. :)
I love molasses candy kisses and candy apples
Store bought – Tootsie Rolls. New homemade favorite – Pumpkin Fudge. Fall baking/candy making is SO much more fulfilling than Christmas baking!
Pumpkin Pie!! Well, everything made of it :D
Love you!
Carla
Smarties, smarties, and more smarties!
Wow–this book looks great..a must have. thanks for the chance to win. As for my fav Halloween candy–it’s those halloween kisses. You know, the ones no one likes?! Well I do, so I reap the benefits!
Candy corn, without a doubt!
Those cookies look delicious – you inspire me to be a better baker. I look toward your website every holiday to get ideas for baking something special – thanks for doing what you do.
My personal favorite halloween candy is candy corn but I do have very fond memories as a child of eating Necco Mary Jane chewy candies with my grandfather.
Thanks!
I sneak all the laffy taffy from my kids’ Halloween buckets…love them!
All the tiny little chocolate bars, especially Coffee Crisp.
How can I pick just one!?!? Anything gummy is always fun…dots, gummy bears, sour patch kids, etc. But, I also love the good ‘ol classic candy corn! :)
definitely the little butterfinger bites! :)
My favourite Halloween candy would be any of the mini chocolate bars, or any hard candy.
Carmel apple pops.. By far. Made by tootsie and so difficult to find. :) It’s tart green apple sucker coated by chewy carmel!
Anything with rich chocolate.
Gota get my fix of chocolate.
mmmm
P.S. Hope this finds you well.
Bite sized and fun sized anything (reeces, snickers, twix, ect..)
Oops forgot to complete the top.
This recipe looks great, thanks for sharing!
My favorite Halloween candy is SweetTarts Chews! The are not chewy SweetTarts, they are more like Laffy Taffy. I have never been able to find them anywhere besides the Wonka Variety bags around Halloween.
They are amazing!
How super cool to see you in the book!! Peanut butter kisses & Reeses are the best :)
Candy Corn!
Question:
If you have a convection oven do you really have to rotate the pan???
My favorite Halloween candy is Sixlets! I usually only see them at this time of the year:)
I’m going to have to go with ghost Peeps— ohh, and pumpkin reese’s peanut butter cups!
Peanut butter kisses and Reese’s peanut butter cups. :)
I also adore the bite size Reese’s but I have yet to meet a chocolate I don’t love! Can’t wait to try these too, thanks Bakerella and Salty Tart! Chris W.
Anything chocolate! preferably hershey’s mini chocolate bars! yum!
There are so many to choose from…anything chocolate, no, anything sweet, no, just everything about Halloween candy is fun! I know, Watermelon Blowpops!
Once a year….. a small handful of candy corn does the trick for me! Other than that….. Reeses peanut butter cups are the BEST!!!!
My favorite Halloween candy is definitely Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, followed shortly by Candy Corn. Mmm. I might have to go to the store and stock up right now, in fact! ;)
Mary Janes or Bit of Honeys.
Reese Peanut Butter Cups, hands down! I always traded candy with my cousin after trick-or-treating, and I’d trade ANYTHING just to get as many pb cups as I could.
Mini Heath Bars or Junior Mints – and I kid myself that I can stop at just one!
Halloween candy ? The funny faces cupcakes I prepare for my daughter’s birthday. It’s a couple of days before Halloween, but as we do not really celebrate Halloween here in France….
that is so awesome that you’re in that book! when are you going to get your own tv show too?
my favorite halloween candy is either mr. goodbar or twix. mmmm :)
I am trying to open a bakery….would LOVE to have more yummy recipes and ideas!
pumkin reeces cups!! anything chocolate mostly
We don’t really have ‘Halloween Candy’ as such over here in the UK. But my favourite at the moment is Cadbury’s Twirl Mini Bites.
My favorite Halloween candy is mini Snickers. Although, they don’t end up being so mini once you have a dozen ;)
Reese’s peanut butter cups!
I am totally in love with the new coconut M&M’s. Although, Reese’s PB cups have always been irresistable.
Clark bars. No one seems to give them out anymore!
Fun size snickers are my favorite.
Candy corn! I can’t wait for it to hit the shelves every fall.
Hands down, candy corn… and I only allow myself to buy them near Halloween. Otherwise, I’d eat them constantly!!!
Carmel, hands down.
It would have to be those mini m&ms that come in the little triangle package, so cute
Black, orange, and silver wrapped candy kisses.
No one’s mentioned Almond Joys — love them!!!
My favorites are the yummy peanut butter taffy’s wrapped in orange and black papers. Bad for your teeth, but oh so good!
Caramel squares are my favoirte!!! :)
My favorite halloween candy would have to be the mini Twix bars! This cookbook looks amazing!
I love candy corn! and candy corn and peanuts are fantastic together!
My favorite is caramel…on an apple. It’s our traditional treat.
I’d have to say, tootsie rolls. I mean chocolate was eaten up first, but then I would enjoy my tootsie rolls. :)
Mini smarties are my favourite :)
Tootsie Rolls!!!!
I love Werther’s caramel candies. I’m like the old lady that always has hard candies in her purse.
I am going out to get a copy of this book right now for my son’s fiance. It’s her birthday and she is a young pastry cook just starting out…I know she will love it!
Now I need to win one just for me!
peanutbutter cups!!!! I now make my own at home, have recently made dark chocolate peanutbutter cups….. yum!
I’m love almost all Halloween candy! But, I don’t like chocolate tootsie rolls! We always have a years worth after Halloween too! :)
I have to pick a favorite….ok….candy corn and reeses cups!!! the smell of a bag of halloween candy is one that takes you back to your childhood! :)
I only eat Candy Corn once a year and it is during Halloween time. Love it! And it has to be Brach’s.
Reeses candy without a doubt. However, now that I’m getting older, it does feel like excessive amounts are rotting my teeth.
Reese’s Pieces …actually, anything chocolate! Popcorn balls are always a favorite !!!
Hands down, Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups! I steal them from my son’s Halloween treat bag every year. I must learn to resist the PB & C!
Candy corn and pumpkins, of course!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
Junior Mints :-)
It has to be either York Peppermint Patties or the pumpkins (they usually come with candy corn)
It’s all good! — except for tootsie rolls — yuck! Okay, if I have to pick it would be the candy corn and pumpkins mix someone else mentioned – so addictive!
Candy corn
without a oubtits candy corn…and the candy corn pumpkins…..I can eat the entire bag :):):) Thanks for a chance to win this lovely cookbook….not onky do the recipes all sound amazing but the photography is out of this world!! Thanks for your generosity!
Pretty much anything in mini or bite size!
Being from the UK I love to stash a bar of Cadburys Dairy Milk away for the evening, when all the trick or treaters have gone. I can happily give away all of the Herseys and other American candy, knowing I have Cadburys waiting for me….mmmmmmm
Anything with chocolate! I love chocolate!
twix! those trick or treaters are lucky if they get any :)
Mmmmmm here in Spain we don’t do the halloween…. but I love pumpkin crepes!!!! I Looooove them a lot!
Loooooove all chocolate, but I would have to say Snickers! Book looks fab! ( crossing my fingers to win )
They’re not exactly Halloween-specific, but I love the bite size candy bars–Milky Way, Snickers, Mars, mmmmm
My favorite Halloween candy is candy corn. There are so Manu candy corn haters out there. So sad.
what a beautiful book! my favorite Halloween candy is Reese’s mini peanut butter cups. I would always separate those out and eat them first. :)
I love candy corn but my all time favorite is Runts. Except banana. No one likes the banana. Why is the flavor even in there?
I know most people find them kind of icky but I just LOVE those chewy, black & orange wrapped peanut butter kisses!
I make a fantastic pumpkin seed brittle for Halloween-it’s awesome!!!!
Candy corn hands down. Even the newer chocolate version! and thank you for such a wonderful blog and giveaway!! :)
My favorite Halloween candy would be the Reeses pumpkins.
Twix!
Mini Kit Kat bars :)
Candy Corn hands down! I mix it with a hot bowl of popcorn and throw in M&M’s too. The ultimate salty/sweet mix!
chocolate peanut butter cups!!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!
Candy pumpkins!
Candy corn. I don’t eat it, but it is so darn cheerful.
We don’t do Halloween here in Australia, at least not like you guys do… i love jelly filled marshmallow eye balls and chewy severed body parts!
Candy corn! I wait all year for it!
Anything this is chewy or heavily coated in sugar. I love redskins and toffee apple bars, but I am in Australia, so no halloween for me :(
reeses
Mini twix and tootsie rolls.. Yum!
I don’t celebrate Halloween but as for fall time candy, I *love* candy corn (yellow kind please, not chocolate) and pumpkins!
My favorite Halloween candy is definitely those delicious caramel covered apple lollipops!
Reese’s PB cups!
I love candy corn with the pumpkins.
Kit Kat and Twix Bars. Mmmmm…
Mmmmmm…. Anything chocolate!
Candy Corn (we like to mix them with peanuts – taste like a payday candy bar)
My favorite Halloween Candy is Candy Corn. it is the only time of year I will eat it. I make sure to buy a bag and snack on it until Halloween is over. then I can savor it again next year. :)
Candy corn, milk duds and these gummy pumpkins I always get
anything chocolate
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups!!
definitely the Orange Halloween Version of Oreo Cookies that I can’t get here :(