Celebrity Nibbles by Nora, Episode 1

While awaiting results for the last recipe contest I entered (check back in early May), I decided it was time for a new baking related challenge: creating a baking webisode.

So last weekend, armed with my Flip Camera, tripod, various brainstorm scribbles & props and a friend who was game to be my taste tester, I began putting the pieces together and by the wee hours of Monday morning, the first episode (Return of the Foo) of  “Celebrity Nibbles by Nora” was posted on YouTube.

Rather than blather on about it, I’ll just let you watch the episode of Celebrity Nibbles By Nora – Return of the Foo!. Click Here.

Red Hot & Rockin' Foo Cookies

Here’s the recipe for the “Red Hot & Rockin’ Foos Cookies.  (Inspired by Black & White Cookie Recipe on Epicurious.com)

Bake a batch while you listen to their new album! 🙂

Red Hot & Rockin’ Foo Cookie Recipe

Makes 6-8 Cookies

Cookie Ingredients

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup well-shaken buttermilk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/3 cup margarine, softened

1 egg

Directions

Preheat oven at 350 degrees F

Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in bowl. Stir together buttermilk and vanilla in separate bowl.

Beat together margarine and sugar in large bowl until pale and fluffy. Then add egg, beating until combined. Mix in flour and buttermilk mixture alternatively. Keep mixing until smooth.

Butter baking sheet. Then spoon 1/4 cups of batter onto baking sheet spacing 2 inches apart. Bake for 15-17 minutes or until tops are puffed and pale golden. Let cool.

*Quick Tip* Use a biscuit cutter to make your cookies perfectly round after baking

Icing Ingredients

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/3 cup Cinnamon Red Hots

Water

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

Red food coloring (optional)*

Directions

Pour red hots into small pan and add just enough water to cover them. Then place the pan on the stove and warm to medium heat. Continue stirring red hots until dissolved. Turn off heat and set aside.

In a small bowl, stir together powdered sugar, vanilla and 4 Tablespoons of liquid Red Hots. Stir until smooth.

Transfer half the icing to another bowl. Add cocoa powder and 3 Tablespoons of liquid Red Hots. Stir until smooth.

*You can add red food coloring to the other half to achieve the red color in the photo

Icing Cookies

Turn cooled cookies flat sides up, then carefully spread red icing over half of each cookie and chocolate icing over the other half.

*Quick Tip* If you want to add a Foo Fighters logo to the cookies, put them in the fridge for a few minutes to harden the frosting.

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And here’s info on “Before They Are Superstars Taste Tester” Bill Bria’s show, Killing Time.

Bill Bria

Tom Slot’s original play “Killing Time” will be making its world debut at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre’s Spring Playfest 2011 this April.

A prostitute, a Star Trek fan, a mute math Teacher, and a tree lover seek to discover why they are trapped in the afterlife together while a cop and a Jersey girl fall in love at Starbucks. Killing Time is an absurdist dramatic comedy that isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions of the ages, like will we ever get the hoverboards from Back to The Future II?

KILLING TIME

Written and Directed by Tom Slot

Technical Director and Stage Managed by Amanda Raymond.

Starring Nicole Balsam, Milee Bang, Bill Bria, Paul Caron, Sheila Griffin, Sharon Pinney, Nishi Rajan, Jordan Swisher, and Stephen Thornton.

4/27/2011 – 9 PM

4/29/2011 – 9 PM

5/1/2011 – 8 PM

Tickets $20.

For ticket reservations call (646) 329 – 6588.

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Be sure to email nibblesbynora@gmail.com with celebrity suggestions for a future episode!