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.
Anything with sugar, but the mini peanut butter cups are the hardest to resist.
For some reason I always scout out the baby ruth’s from my kids bags! I don’t eat them any other time. But there is something about the chocolatey, peanuty, caramely goodness that is so good on Halloween!
Not very exciting but…Chocolate.. of course! Chocolate is my favorite candy for EVERY holiday/occasion!
I love the autumn mix!
Reese’s Cups, always. Unless I can count caramel apples as candy!?
candy corn!!
Brach’s autumn mix is my favorite!!!
Smarties. Yummy~! In fact, a co-worker brought a bag in tonight and I couldn’t resist munching a few rolls throughout the night. Tastes just like Halloween!
Yes, I would have to go with the mini chocolate bars like some others…. I also enjoy that they go 50% off after Halloween.
It has to be the chocolate especially Butterfingers or Reese’s pb cups and Snickers.
I love all Halloween candy, but I have to say my favorite is mini oh henry’s!! soo yummy!
Peanut Butter Mary Janes and Bit O’ Honey are hands down my favorite! :)
I love the Brach’s pumpkins…I could eat a whole bag! I usually buy one and portion it out so I can have 3-5 pumpkins a day! :)
Smarties … those rolls of tarty tanginess! That’s definitely “Halloween Trick or Treat” with me. My two daughters loved the single wrapped full sized Reeses the best.
Candy Corn!!
Oh gosh! I know my chances are slim to win but I’m still hoping! My favorite Halloween candy are tootsie pops. Hard candy on the outside, chewiness on the inside and it takes awhile to finish. Thanks for a great blog and congrats on being featured in the book!
Anything with chocolate in it – I’m not picky!
These recipes look amazing!! I thought you made those pretzels and took pictures!
I LOVE tootsie rolls!! They are my all time favourite Halloween candy!!
Thanks for the contest and the chance to win!
My favorite candy would be candy corn (though afterwords I cannot eat it for weeks); however, my favorite food would probably be candied apples and drink would be apple cider (both sweet and kind of dessert-like).
popcorn balls!
Reese’s PB cups! My fave!
Candy corn is by far my favorite Halloween candy!!! Not only is it delish on its own, but I love it when its used as witches nails in those plastic gloves with popcorn and m&m’s inside. Yum!!!
WOW that book looks AWESOME and I love the recipe you gave! I will def. be giving that a try. My Fav. halloween candy is candy corn pumpkins. I can only eat a few though cause they are soo sweet! But They are fun to use to decorate cupcakes and trim as a fun decoration for a cake!
YUMMO! can’t wait to make these!!! favorite candy (and always a favorite) – anything Chocolate!
Definitely the mini chocolates… with a soft spot for the mini Wunderbars :)
Yummy twix!!!!
Well, we don’t celebrate Halloween in Malaysia, but I love chocolate and candies. I think I’d love to try Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups because they seem to be really popular.
kit kats,especially the halloween shaped ones
Oh dear me this is a hard one…I love them all but if I had to pick just one it would be the plain ole Hershey’s with almonds!! if is is a homemade treat I would say popcorn balls or caramel apples~ oh dear me do I love the candy!! yummy!!
Flavored Tootsie Rolls! Especially the orange ones…
Candy Corn!!!
m&ms or any mini hershey chocolates :)
Orange Kit Kats only sold in the fall…soooo good!!
My favorite Halloween candy (although I can eat it any time of the year) are Twix!!! I will pretty much eat any and every type of candy though :-)
Peanut butter cups are my favorite but I do like candy corns at Halloween. Heck, I like them all!!
Bite size Twix! The best!
I love the Hershey’s Kisses Pumpkin Spice Flavored candies. Delish!!
Hmmm a favorite Halloween candy….that’s a tough one! There’s so many good ones! If I had to pick a favorite I’d have to say I’m a sucker for candy corn. :)
Of course Candy Corn!!!
Mini Milk Dud boxes…Mmmmm!
Thanks for the giveaway!!
What a great looking book!
I really love almost all candy, especially Halloween candy, but I do get cravings this time of year for tiny mellowcreme pumpkins!
Candy corn and candy pumpkins!
Well, if I have to choose, I steal the Oh Henry bars out of the kids’ mix, but not before I pull out all the tootsie rolls!
Any dark chocolate version of classic candy – Reeses, M&Ms, etc.
Not specific to Halloween, but I love Butterfingers!
I always love Snickers, so it’s a good thing you can get them year round!
Candy corn is my favorite Halloween treat!
Caramel Apples!!!! Yuuuummmmmyyyyy!!!!
My favorite Halloween candy? Do caramel apples count? I say they count. : )
Reese’s peanut butter cups!
Reese’s peanut butter cups…year around.
butterfinger! i still remember trading my brother for them over 25 years ago after our night of trick or treating!!! :)
I love the little Snickers bars.
I’m a sucker for Reese Cups… I dig through the candy looking for them :)
Candy corn mixed with peanuts. Yum!!
Fav Halloween candy is the those little sugar pumpkins from Brach’s! yummy sugar rush….
I love Mary Janes! Yum!
It’s not so much a Halloween candy, but a favorite fall treat. Homemade caramel apples, with chocolate drizzled all over the outside? They are a favorite to eat, to make, and to gift!
Caramel Apples and Toffee Cinnamon Caramel Corn!!! Time to get out the Autumn decorations!
anything chocolate!
I think I’m going to have to go with candy corn…although (and I hate to admit it) as I get older, I can’t eat quite as much…darn.
Definitely candy corn
I love that book!
My favorite candy is the novelty candy like the gummy earthworms. I play with my candy.
Twix!
My favorite candy is gummies !
I think Reese’s. I always felt like I hit the jackpot when I got a full sized one as a kid!
I adore the bitesized snickers :)
Candy Corn!! I love it!! Despite the fact, everyone I know hates it and insists that the bags the stores put out at Halloween are the exact same bags that they put out every year for the last 30 years and I’m the only one who buys it…
Brach’s Candy Corn- hands down, no question. I like to eat each kernel in three bites: white, yellow, orange!
Favorite Halloween Candy? That would have to be Rieces Pieces. I know they are available all year but it so much fun to decorate with them at Halloween because of the orange, yellow, and brown colors. Oh yes, and maybe eat one or two…
Peanut M&Ms and mini-snickers!
definitely indian corns
candy corn!!!!! I love the gourmet candy corn that have been showing up in the stores in the last couple of years.
Easy: mini oh henrys. Hands down.
I think just about any candy tasted better when it’s mini and packed in a Halloween bag…just sayin’
Congrats on all your accomplishments thus far this year!
I mix candy corn, peanuts, and chocolate chips, and eat my face off. Delicious!
I loved getting War Heads and those cute boxes of nerds and , although I think they are gross and hard to eat now, Milkduds!
Those Meringues look divine!
too many candies to name! I think candy corn or ANYTHING in miniatur size! :)
Sugar Babies!
I love mixing candy coran and roasted peanutes together.
now, when raiding my children’s candy stash or stocking up for home, I love kit kats or reeses peanut butter cups.
This book looks awesome!!
I love Caramel Apple Pops!!!
Caramels! !!!!!!!!!
I love reese peanut butter cups. I am from canada can i still enter into this lovely contest :)
I used to love Sixlets when I was a child, and I found them at Target this year! Love the book – definitely going on my wishlist:)
Hands down…candy corn! Yum!
Twix bars. I know I can get them year round but the bite size ones are just so darn delicious!
Candy Corns hands down! Nut free version due to my sons nut allergy :)
Candy corn! I hope I win. :)
Reese’s Peanut Butter cups! But I’m a sucker for chocolate and peanut butter in any form.
I loved Candy Apples, when homemade halloween treats were still okay… I miss those days.
Since my favorite holiday is Halloween I adore all things that celebrate the day…but my fave candy would have to be those little peanut butter bars….they’re white hard candy on the outside with peanut butter inside and their wrappers have those little black stripes. They always look like the little insignificant candy, but they are SOOOO good!!
Reese’s PB pumpkins
I love candy corn! I will eat it until it makes me sick…
Candy Corn! I’m going to make some candy corn cupcakes this week to celebrate fall. Hopefully it will cool down here!
I love chocolate so it’s weird but I think Bit-o-honey is my favorite Halloween candy. Thanks!
the orange kitkats. they’re my freaking kryptonite.
I am a sweet tooth junkie all year but I especially love eating caramel candies at Halloween time. And I love decorating with candy corns and mini candy pumpkins in my apothecary type jars.
Got to be Candy Corn!
I actually love candy corn! So strange I know;)
Michelle
of course I would never turn down a Reece’s Peanut Butter Pumpkin, either!!!!!!
Reese’s peanut butter mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I love those little candy pumpkins, but I can only have 2-3 at a time because they’re just way too sugary!!!
candy corn! no doubt!
Those meringues look delicious. I’ve always been al ittle scared to try making them, but I definately think I’ll give this chocolate version a try next time I leftover eggwhites from making ice cream.
favorite halloween candy – caramels, especially melted down and drizzled over apple slices!
Milk Duds – I will gladly eat any Halloween candy, but year after year these are the ones I hide from the rest of the family :)
I love SIXLETS ….you know the small round beautiful colored chocolate balls……great for eating and great for DECORATING cupcakes and cake balls!!
Its a tie between Reeses and KitKats! :)
Milky Ways!
I love any kind of candy….it’s all yummy!!
Peanut Butter Kisses – you know the ones, they are actually taffy with a tiny dollup of peanut butter in the center. They come wrapped in orange wax paper or black wax paper. These are getting harder and harder to find each year! I’ve always been a sucker for taffy, but have never mastered making it.
My favorite Halloween candy is sweet tarts!!!
Malted milk balls! But, honestly, all candy is good.
My favorite halloween candy? All of the above :)
Candy corn :P
Tootsie Rolls!
WOW! Those meringues look delish and semi-easy to make. I can’t wait to try them!
While you can’t go wrong with ANY kind of candy in my book, I consider Candy Corn the true traditional Halloween candy. So yummy and so addicting!
Chocolate with cereals…. this book looks really great!! :D
I love anything chocolate- especially snickers and twix, but if it has to be special to Halloween.. I guess I have to say candy corn. It’s so addicting!
The little tiny square butterfingers, no not the rectangles, the teeny tiny squares, lol ;)
Homemade caramel popcorn. Not that it’s a Halloween candy, but that’s when I start making it and continue through the holidays.
Candy corn mixed with cocktail peanuts and m&ms! Great sweet/ salty snack!!
My favorite candy would have to be Nestle’s Crunch Bars with all their crunchy, chocolate goodness!! I’m craving one now….. :)
The chocolate candy corn!
Candy corn! I can’t get enough of it.
Favorite candy if I have to pick just one…Twix.
These look better than any Halloween candy I’ve ever had! But I always fish out the Mr. Goodbars…I never see those any other time of year! :)
I love the candy corn/peanut combo.! Tastes like a Payday candy bar :) Great looking cookbook! So happy to see you are doing so well :)
I love the little candy pumpkins! Candy corn is yummy but those little pumpkins get the best of me. :O)
I love candy corn, but would certainly not turn up my nose at any miniature-sized candy bar this time of year! :-)
Candy Corn!
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups–full size, not mini for the best chocolate:pb ratio.
reese’s peanut butter cups
Tootsie Pops!
I love Candy corn! :)
Reese Cup Pumpkins – yummy! I also think candy corn is adorable and use it to decorate with, but I don’t like to eat it :)
Snickers with almonds in the snack size. I believe you can only get them in snack size around Halloween.
My favorite Halloween cancy is the orange jelly pumpkins. Just like oranges slices candy but in cute little pumpkin shapes. Yummmmmmmmmmmm.
Rockets!!! Yum!
I LOVE candy corn. I wish they made it all year long. It is so addictive…I hate when I buy a bag, because I can’t control myself. It’s like candy crack!!
Candy corn! This cookbook looks amazing!
Im sure everybody else is picking this too. Candy corn.
even though you can get them year round, I love snickers! especially the mini ones, it doesn’t seem as bad (in my mind, at least) eating several of those vs a whole candy bar!
Candy corn mixed with peanuts! Love it!! :)
I love the bite-sized Snickers. My kids always funnel the Hershey’s Dark minis to me too!
Milky Way
Anything chocolate. Or those mini bags of fuzzy peaches…mmmm.
Candy corn!!!
100 grand bars. Crunchy, chocolaty, chewy…what’s not to love in that combo??
I really like Heath bars… a lot.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this book, and for trying a recipe from Salty Tart – their baked goods are amazing.
I just love all the mini candies, they are so cute….and fit well in brownies!
My favorite Halloween candy is candy corn!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups…..hands down. :)
Yum! I love the bite size Milky Ways…makes me feel less guilty than eating a whole, delicious, ooey-gooey candy bar. (woops, forgot my name!)
charleston chews
That’s a hard one! Indian corn, kit kats, mini snickers, caramel apples. :)
Ooooh Halloween candy – what’s not to love?!?! Really anything chocolate works for me! I love all the miniature sized candy bars so I can eat a bigger variety!!
Yum! I love the bite size Milky Ways…makes me feel less guilty than eating a whole, delicious, ooey-gooey candy bar.
peanut butter cups. or the big pumpkins. They have a better pb to chocolate ratio!
Reese cups. However, with a peanut allergic child they are a thing of the past.
Reese’s cups…..hey you got chocolate in my peanut butter — you got peanut butter in my chocolate!
I love old fashioned popcorn balls. I make them with M & M”s in them, and tint the syrup orange for Halloween. Such fun!
Hard to pick one! Hersheys Special Dark chocolate, Smarties, laffy taffy, snickers. :D
molases candies yummmmmm
Reeses peanut butter pumpkins! Yum!
I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and the good thing about them is I can get them ALL year long.
Those black and orange wrapped peanut butter chewy things!
Candy corn ~ I eat it until my teeth ache and my stomach turns!
Ugh!
Love candy corn…
Thanks for the giveaway…..
reeses peanut butter cups!!!
CANDY CORN!!!!!!!!!!!
candy corn pumpkins! this book looks awesome!
Gotta love candy corn at Halloween!
Wow, you find the best books for us to drool over!!!
We don’t generally celebrate Halloween as such here in Australia but each year you can find a few interesting bits if you search.
My favourite are the gel filled marshmallows or chocolate filled ones. Yummy.
Peanut M&M
Oh, that is such a tough question!! I would have to say those candy corn pumpkins. Mmmmm…so delish! I also love fun sized cany bars, they are just so cute, right!?
Peanut Butter Cups!
caramel apples
Peanut M & M’s!!!!
My favorite is Almond Joys. Yum!
Everything! But if I had to pick one, Snickers! It’s been my favorite chocolate bar since childhood.
Goodness I have to pick one favorite Halloween candy? I dont think I can, but I am totally in love with these chocolate suckers from Vosges Haut-Chocolate; http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/category/Halloween-Day-of-the-dead-chocolate-skull-lollipop
I love Skor Bars. Chocolate and toffee, yum.
My fav Halloween candy are the mini bags of Peanut M&Ms. Thanks. love your stuff!!!
Candy corn should be the offical candy of Halloween.
Love, love , love the book.
I love peanut m&m’s and mini reese’s peanut butter cups!
Candy corn!
Candy Corn.
Popcorn Balls
I love the mini kit kats and reeses peanut butter cups, but only if they’ve been in the fridge.
Chocolate covered apples with chopped gummys on top:)
I love the peanut butter/molasses taffy in the orange and black wrappers. Delicious, ooey, gooey goodness!
My favorite Halloween Candy is candy corn. Pure sugar! Yum!
candy corn
I love candy apples – does that count? And…. caramel… anything!
i love Take 5 bars – pretzels, caramel AND chocolate!
Reese’s peanut butter cups!!
Decisions, decisions……if I had to pick one it would have to be those chewy peanut butter things that are always wrapped in orange and black and you can only find a Halloween :)
My favorite Halloween candy is mini Twix bars. I would always try to trade those with everyone else. :)
Mini Three Muskateers bars and Peppermint Patties :-)
I love candy corn!
Popcorn Balls! ( not really a candy)