Mad About Maida

Health Food Raisin Bread (S ource:  Maida Heatter's Cakes  (Andrews & McMeel Publishing, 2011 ed. , pg. 264). I love to have a sweet bread or cake with my morning coffee but I have been trying to limit my sugar intake. That is hard to do with Maida Heatter's recipes but this one recently caught my eye. There is no sugar in it and it is sweetened with honey and molasses. I really like it, especially with cream cheese. She has some similar recipes of this nature that I plan to try soon.  I do not normally use that much whole wheat flour so I store it in our old refrigerator in the garage. I used Bob's Red Mill stone ground wheat flour for this. Wheat germ is another item I store in the refrigerator. I did not toast this for the recipe but the next time I will try doing that. For the molasses, I happened to have some Brer Rabbit molasses in the cabinet that I used earlier in the year for another recipe. A 6-cup capacity loaf pan is needed for the recipe. I had a...

Chocolate Fondant Cookies Source:  Maida Heatter's Brand-New Book of Great Cookies (Random House, 1995 ed.) , pg. 138. Maida describes these cookies as "plain" and that they are but in my opinion, the addition of chocolate brings anything up to another level! Especially milk chocolate (I used Hershey bars). The batter was sinfully delicious and I could have stood there and ate the entire bowl. The cookies are good, nothing extraordinary, but you find yourself going back for more... 7 TBS. unsalted butter 3/4 cup sifted unbleached flour 1 tsp. baking powder Pinch of salt 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1/3 cup sugar 7 oz. milk chocolate 2 large eggs Optional: Confectioners sugar (to sprinkle on top of cookies) Preheat oven to 350. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or foil. Cut the butter into small pieces and set aside. In a food processor, add the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa and sugar and pulse a few times to mix. Break...