May 2025 – Simply Delicious: The Cookbook Project

19-9: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate II

Jamie Martin Group 19: Basic Ingredients, Section 4: Cooking School May 26, 2025May 24, 2025Asian, boiled, Chinese, chocolate, chocolate chips, chocolate cups, chocolate curls, chocolate sauce, cocoa powder, coffee, cooking school, dark chocolate, English, flavorings, granulated sugar, green tea, Indian, ingredients, Japanese, liqueur, Mexican, milk, roasted, tea, toasted, whipping cream, white chocolate

Finishing out what I have for Group 19 with 19-9: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate II, the sequel to 19-8: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate I. The first one is all about coffee, while this one features the tea and chocolate.

Here’s some reading about tea–I don’t have a lot of tea-related recipes for you, so jump behind the cut for what we’re all really here for: the chocolate.

16-36: Fresh Cherry Pie

Jamie Martin Group 16: Pies & Cakes, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods May 23, 2025May 22, 2025all-purpose flour, almond paste, butter, cherries, chilled, cornstarch, creamed, dessert, dough, egg whites, egg yolks, eggs, fairly easy, fairly expensive, filling, French, granulated sugar, grated, meringue, pie crust, pie weights, pies, snacks, soft peaks, spring, summer, untested, vanilla extract, vegetarian, whipped, whipping cream

Late spring/early summer means the start of cherry time around here, so it’s finally time to make 16-36: Fresh Cherry Pie.

We watched Twin Peaks (all three seasons and the movie) a few months ago, and ever since, I’ve been craving a slice of damn fine cherry pie. Talk about synergy.

However, this is not quite Norma’s cherry pie…this is Simply Delicious’ cherry pie, so it of course has to include almond paste in some way. If you’re looking for Norma’s cherry pie (which is much closer to typical “cherry pie”), go here. Pour yourself a cup of coffee and watch some Twin Peaks while you’re at it–it’s awesome.

Funnily enough, Twin Peaks and Simply Delicious both exist as excellent representations of the late 1980s-early 1990s. There’s that synergy thing again.

15-6: Royal Court Dessert

Jamie Martin Group 15: Cold Desserts, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods May 20, 2025May 20, 2025bananas, boiled, chilled, chocolate, chocolate sauce, cocoa powder, cold desserts, cookies, dessert, drizzled, easy, fairly inexpensive, garnish, gluten-free, granulated sugar, layers, mandarin oranges, meringue, party food, sliced, sprinkles, untested, vanilla extract, vegetarian, whipped, whipping cream

This one has intrigued me for years…when you’re a kid, it looks absolutely magical. Almost like Ice Cream Mountain, if you know that reference.

As an adult, 15-6: Royal Court Dessert just looks like a sugary headache. Turns out, it’s a little bit of both.

They’re right that this is a pretty quick and easy dessert to make. The hardest part (for me) was actually finding the meringues themselves. I guess I could have made them myself, but that is neither quick nor easy.

17-69: Crispy Cracker Bread

Jamie Martin Group 17: Baked Goods, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods May 12, 2025May 12, 2025all-purpose flour, almond milk, baked goods, breakfast, crackers, crispy, crushed, cumin, dairy-free, egg-free, fairly hard, inexpensive, kneaded, lunch, milk, oat milk, proofed, rye bread, rye flour, salt, side dish, snacks, stone-ground, untested, vegan, vegetarian, white bread, whole wheat flour, yeast

My freezer can only hold so many desserts, so sometimes I mix it up and make breads instead. In this particular case, I made something a little different: 17-69: Crispy Cracker Bread.

These are similar to ak-mak or Wasa crispbread, if you’ve tried either of those. I like them topped with some tuna for lunch, so why not make my own?

15-22: Cappuccino Ice Cream

Jamie Martin Group 15: Cold Desserts, Section 3: Desserts & Baked Goods May 10, 2025May 10, 2025cappuccino, chilled, chopped, cocoa powder, coffee, cold desserts, dessert, dollop, dusted, easy, fairly inexpensive, garnish, gluten-free, ice cream, nuts, pistachios, powdered sugar, soft peaks, sundaes, untested, vanilla bean, vegetarian, whipped, whipping cream

On the heels of 19-8: Coffee, Tea, & Chocolate I, I happened to recently make a somewhat-related recipe, 15-22: Cappuccino Ice Cream. I love coffee ice cream, and so does my mom. However, this recipe is NOT what you (or I, or she) would have expected by that title.

I bring my mom up also since it’s just about Mother’s Day (or might already be by the time you read this)–maybe don’t make this one for your mom though, unless she likes coffee slushies. Again, even that sounds better than this actually is.