Tag: Recipes for Fall

3 original recipes to prepare your hot chocolate

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Ahhh, winter is about to arrive, and that only means one thing: hot chocolate recipes and movies.

When the holiday season starts, we automatically think about the smell of cinnamon, gingerbread cookies, peppermint, and good ole hot chocolate. If you are not a fan of coffee and this is your drink of choice during these dates, we give you three original recipes to prepare.

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Give your hot chocolate a twist with these recipes

1. Chili Spice Hot Chocolate

We know it sounds a little weird but it’s not. In fact, the flavor of cocoa stands out a lot when you add spices.

Need:

  • Milk (2 cups)
  • Dark chocolate (about 100 g, chopped)
  • Sugar to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • Pinch of chili powder

Preparation:

  1. Heat the milk in a saucepan over medium heat until hot but not boiling.
  2. Add the chopped dark chocolate and stir until completely melted.
  3. Add sugar to taste and mix well.
  4. Stir in the cinnamon powder and a pinch of chili powder.
  5. Continue stirring until everything is well combined.
  6. Serve hot and enjoy.

2. Mint Marshmallow Hot Chocolate

Need:

  • Milk (2 cups)
  • Milk chocolate (about 100 g, chopped)
  • Sugar to taste
  • Peppermint extract (1/4 teaspoon)
  • Marshmallows

Preparation:

  1. Heat the milk in a saucepan over medium heat until hot but not boiling.
  2. Add the chopped milk chocolate and stir until completely melted.
  3. Add sugar to taste and mix well.
  4. Add the peppermint extract and stir to incorporate.
  5. Serve in mugs and garnish with marshmallows.
  6. If desired, you can toast the marshmallows for a hint of smoky flavor.

3. Caramelized Orange Cinnamon Hot Chocolate

Need:

  • 2 cups milk
  • 100 g dark chocolate (with a high percentage of cocoa)
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • Peel of half an orange, cut into strips
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • Whipped cream and chocolate zest for garnish (optional)

Preparation:

  1. In a saucepan over medium heat, heat the milk and cinnamon stick until almost boiling.
  2. Melt the chocolate in a microwave in adouble boiler or at short intervals in the microwave.
  3. Add the melted chocolate to the hot milk and mix well until incorporated.
  4. Add the sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir well.
  5. Add the strips of orange peel to the mixture and let it infuse for about 5 minutes.
  6. Remove the cinnamon stick and orange peel strips from your chocolate.
  7. Serve the hot chocolate, washwith whipped cream and chocolate zest if you’re craving it.

Cookie season! Try Gilmore Girls Coffee Cake Cookies

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A delicious coffee cake might sound like a dream to those of us who have a Lorelai Gilmore in us. Luckily, the popularity of Gilmores has reached Tiktok with none other than Gilmore Girls coffee cake cookies, which are perfect to accompany the fall season.

Recently, the Gilmore Girls phenomenon has made its way into fans’ culinary preferences, with a coffee cake cookie recipe inspired by the Luke’s Diner menu.

On TikTok, a user named @thepalatablelife shared the recipe just in time for the fall season, and it has garnered over 8.5 million views.

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How to Make Gilmore Girls Coffee Cake Cookies Recipe

If you’re interested in baking these coffee cake cookies to enjoy during your next Gilmore Girls comfort rewatch, channel your inner Sookie by starting with:

  • A mixture of butter, vegetable oil, and brown sugar.
  • Add half an egg, a little vanilla extract, and flour to the mixture.
  • Shape the cookie dough into balls with a cookie scoop, and place them on a baking sheet, then flatten them into the typical cookie shape.
  • For the cinnamon streusel topping, we prepared a separate mixture of butter, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon, you can drizzle the streusel crumbs over your cookies.
  • After baking for ten minutes, we’ll create a sticky mixture of powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract, to cover the cookies as soon as they come out of the oven.
@thepalatablelife

coffee cake cookies! one of my fav cookies EVER. recipe is linked in my bio! #coffeecake #cookies #foodtok #cookierecipe

♬ I AM WOMAN – emmy

In addition to being delicious, they are the perfect snack to reflect if you are Team Dean, Jess, or Logan, right?

Here are more inspired Gilmore Girls Coffee Cake Cookies:

@kyndelgrove

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♬ original sound – Kyndelgrove
@kyleciauri

making coffee cake cookies from gilmore girls!!! hit the follow button and lmk if u want the recipe!! #cookies #gilmoregirls #coffeecakecookie

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@aya.eats

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♬ original sound – danya.fere
@therealcrafterina

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How to Make APPLE TEA

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Something simple, yet soothing to snuggle up with like this cinnamon apple tea. Its rich taste and aroma are like the best of fall in a cup. The light brew is full of organic ingredients with immune-boosting properties—like turmeric and ginger—making it a great drink to sip first thing in the morning. 

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It’s sweet, spicy, and a great way to chase away an autumn chill. Best of all you need just a handful of ingredients to make it yourself.

Making homemade flavored teas is one of BeautyLeeBar’s favorite ways to keep warm as the days get cooler. Yes, you could use a store-bought bag of apple cinnamon tea, but many are filled with questionable added flavors and are either overly spicy or lacking in real apple flavor. Making your homemade version is easy and notably tastier. 

Keep scrolling to get the deets to make your new favorite refreshing drink for Fall:

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Homemade Apple Tea

RECIPE TYPE: Beverage SERVING SIZE: 2 PREP TIME: 5 min. COOK TIME: 10 min. TOTAL TIME: 15 min.

INGREDIENTS

1 quart of water
1 red apple (sliced into quarters)
2 cinnamon sticks
8 whole cloves
¼ teaspoon of turmeric
1-inch cube of ginger (sliced)
1 bunch of mint
1 lemon
¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
Organic Manuka honey

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Add water, apple, cinnamon sticks, cloves, turmeric, ginger, mint, and cardamom to a large pot.
2. Squeeze half of lemon into pot, thinly slice the other half.
3. Bring pot to boil. Simmer for 10 minutes, covered.
4. Add 1 teaspoon of honey to bottom of each mug.
5. Strain tea over honey in mug to dissolve.

This tea stores well in the fridge, so you can make a batch and sip on it through the week — either warm up or cool if fall hasn’t hit your region yet, as preferred. We found a glass mason jar with a lid that works well for storage.

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The longer the infusion steeps, the more fragrant it becomes, so you can experiment with that (and with the spices too!) This herbal mildly spiced elixir is perfect for health and beauty benefits.

We hope you get a chance to make this warm, fragrant infusion and that it wraps you in all the comforts of fall — We are excited for our Beauties to try it!

Taylor Swift’s chai cookie recipe is perfect for fall

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About six years ago, Taylor Swift posted on her Instagram the photo of one of her favorite homemade desserts, which prepared her fans for the secret sessions of 1989 and quickly became a classic. Little time passed for the swifties to start asking Taylor for the recipe for her chai cookies, and she shared it through a post on Tumblr.

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Every year, hundreds of people try to recreate the viral recipe and even upload videos of its process to Instagram and TikTok. This 2023 is no exception, and since autumn is a perfect time for this sweet and spicy flavor, today we share how to make cookies Taylor style.

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The recipe is not complicated, and today we will share it with you so you can make your version of Taylor Swift’s Chai cookies.

Taylor Swift’s Chai Cookies Recipe…

As Taylor said in a post on Tumblr, there are two ways you can recreate this recipe, easy or difficult. For the easy one, all you have to do is buy a pre-made sugar cookie dough add a tablespoon of chai powder or an envelope of chai tea, and bathe them with Taylor’s special glaze, which we will tell you how to prepare later.

However, if you are one of those who love challenges and with a great pastry spirit, you can make the dough from scratch.

Ingredients for Taylor Swift chai cookies:

  • 1/2 cup butter at room temperature.
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil.
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar.
  • 1/2 cup icing sugar.
  • 1 large egg.
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla.
  • 2 cups flour.
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda.
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt.
  • 1 <>/<> teaspoons ginger powder.
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder.
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice (also called coarse pepper or sweet pepper).
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg powder.
  • 1/4 teaspoon cardamom powder.
  • 1/8 teaspoon of clove powder.
  • A pinch of ground pepper.

Do not worry if you do not find any of the spices: you can replace it with a little more cinnamon or simply eliminate it. We promise that your cookies will be delicious in any way.

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Ingredients for the glaze:

  • 1 cup icing sugar.
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg.
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
  • 3 tablespoons milk or eggnog.

How to prepare them

The original recipe and the specific preparation instructions that Taylor uses were compiled by the blog Joy the Baker and here we bring it to you.

  • Preheat the oven to 176 degrees Celsius and prepare your tray with nonstick patchpaper
  • Using a mixer equipped with a popsicle attachment, whisk the butter into a large bowl on medium speed for about 1 minute. Add the vegetable oil. It may not be fully incorporated with butter, but it’s okay.
  • Add the granulated sugar, powdered sugar, and all spices. Beat to combine.
  • Add the egg and vanilla, beating at medium speed until completely incorporated.
  • Add the flour, baking soda, and salt at once with a wooden spoon or mixer on low speed.
  • The dough will be soft. Refrigerate for 1 hour or freeze for 15 minutes to make it easier to handle.
  • For large cookies, place 2 tablespoons of cookie dough on the baking sheet about 5 centimeters apart. For smaller cookies, use 1 tablespoon for each cookie. Press the dough evenly with your fingers or palm until it is half a centimeter thick.
  • Roll each ball into a small bowl of cinnamon sugar.
  • Bake 12 to 14 minutes for larger cookies or 8 to 10 minutes for smaller cookies.
  • Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for at least 10 minutes before transferring them to the racks to cool completely.
  • In a medium bowl, mix the frosting ingredients until you get a thick but spreadable consistency. Spread the frosting in the center of each cookie, leaving the edges without frosting (they must be already cold). Sprinkle with some fresh nutmeg if you have it.
  • Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4 days.

Also, you can check here Tay’s tips to make this great Christmas recipe.

What are you saying? Do you dare to try it? Remember that The bakers gonna bake bake bake bake bake!

@bakedbymelissa

Cry and eat your Taylor cookies! 🧣#alltoowell #taylorswift #redtaylorsversion #redtv #recipe #fypシ

♬ All Too Well Taylor Swift – You’re On Your Own Kid