{"id":5394,"date":"2016-10-03T07:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T13:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:48:13","slug":"250-cookbooks-cooking-for-your-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"250 Cookbooks: Cooking for Your Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cookbook #176:\u00a0<\/strong>Cooking for Your Dragon,<\/em> a cookbook for chocolate lovers, Randal Spangler, Fantastic Art (Books), Kansas City, 1996.<\/p>\n

\"Cooking<\/p>\n

I’ve been a fan of Randal Spangler’s art<\/a> for decades. On the wall above my computer I have two framed Spangler prints. One is a cat chasing a computer mouse that a “dragling” is using to lure her in. The other is a white-haired scientist pedaling a bike in a crazy contraption. Draglings are a Spangler creation, and cats and computers and cookies are among his favorite subjects. (Mine too!)<\/p>\n

Cooking for your Dragon<\/em> is full of Spangler’s artwork and every recipe has chocolate in it. Chocolate is a dragon’s favorite food! Legends of the mythical world of dragons are throughout the cookbook. It’s a delight to read.<\/p>\n

The recipes are all very, very rich. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked a recipe from this book! Mostly I enjoy the illustrations and whimsical stories.<\/p>\n

The recipe I choose to make is “Brownie Cupcakes”. The recipe makes 24 cupcakes, and therefore I’ll cook them in two batches because I only have one muffin pan.<\/p>\n

\"Brownie<\/p>\n

Well. Here is how the first batch turned out:<\/p>\n

\"BrownieTotal failure! They look terrible. Rose up, fell down.<\/p>\n

The recipe does not explicitly state: “Pour into 24<\/strong> paper lined cupcake pans”, although it states “24 servings”. The first batch, I might filled them too full. For the second batch, and I was careful to fill each cupcake only half full.<\/p>\n

On baking, the second batch too fell.<\/p>\n

Why did they fail? Not sure. But there is no baking powder in the recipe. Compare this recipe with the one I have for “Fudgy Brownies<\/a>” in Baker’s Book of Chocolate Riches. That recipe is almost exactly half of the above recipe, except it has baking powder in it and is baked in an eight-inch square pan.<\/p>\n

The only other reason for failure (that I can think of) is that we live at high altitude and I didn’t make any of my usual altitude-dictated adjustments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Win some, lose some! These did taste<\/em> good, but as “crumbles” rather than “brownies”.<\/p>\n

I won’t try this recipe again \u2013 I’ll stick to Fudgy Brownies<\/a>!<\/p>\n

250 Cookbooks next post<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cookbook #176:\u00a0Cooking for Your Dragon, a cookbook for chocolate lovers, Randal Spangler, Fantastic Art (Books), Kansas City, 1996. I’ve been a fan of Randal Spangler’s art for decades. On the wall above my computer I have two framed Spangler prints. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-250cookbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cooking.pfeist.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}