Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Feb 1st, 2010
It’s a lobster!!! Get your mind out of the gutter.
I’ve come full circle on milk chocolate. As a kid, like most of us I think, I didn’t like dark chocolate at all. Ew, too bitter! Recently, I’ve felt the opposite. Milk chocolate was too sweet – where’s the chocolate flavor?
But now [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Jan 5th, 2010
I’m crossing my fingers that I don’t have high altitude problems with my baking now that I live at just over 3000 feet. It’s right at the margin of where some cookbooks recommend making adjustments. I conducted one little test, comparing chocolate chip cookies made at sea level with the same recipe made at 3000 [...]
Posted in cake, cheese, chocolate, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Dec 22nd, 2009
Back when my brother was the family cheesecake-maker, we didn’t eat a lot of chocolate cheesecakes. He didn’t like them. I always thought, what is there not to like? It’s chocolate, and it’s cheesecake. Seems like a good match.
But now I see his point. I like both chocolate and cheesecake, [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, favorites, recipe comparisons on Dec 9th, 2009
Sometimes it’s the recipes that seem the simplest that can give us the most trouble. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people lamenting about their chocolate chip cookies. We think that because the recipe is ubiquitous that we should all do it well, but truthfully, many cookies are finicky – [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, fall, fruit, nuts, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Nov 24th, 2009
When I did my bake-and-send extravaganza last summer, I unintentionally left a few key people out. Namely, our moms, both mine and Dave’s. Oops.
I did, however, send a box of cookies to my mother-in-law’s sister. Who, of course, called my mother-in-law, mentioned the cookies, and then…I was in trouble. Well, not [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, fall, nuts, tuesdays with dorie, winter/holidays on Nov 3rd, 2009
My dessert rich-o-meter has chocolate chip cookies right near the middle, with cheesecake at one end and, I don’t know, maybe angel food cake on the other. Although I almost never eat angel food cake. Regular layer cakes tend to be slightly on the less rich side of cookies, until you add frosting [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, dessert, fruit, tuesdays with dorie on Oct 27th, 2009
Most people I know have some Thing that they are, corny and dramatic as it sounds, passionate about. For Dave it’s music. I have a friend who brews beer, another who gardens, one who is all about house renovation, one who could spend hours a day researching his next bottle of wine. [...]
You must make this cake.
I try not to say that. I know everyone has their own preferences. Not everyone likes to bake. There is no shortage of apple cake recipes. But –
You must make this cake.
It’s the essence of fall, all in one small unassuming square of cake. It will [...]
Posted in cake, dessert, fall, freezer friendly, recipe comparisons on Sep 25th, 2009
You know what’s totally unfair, considering that I’m in general more interested in food than Dave? He has a more sensitive palate than me. What the hell?
I made these cupcakes when he wasn’t around, and I had to do three separate “tastings” (eating all three in one sitting, unfrosted) over a couple of days [...]
Posted in cake, cheese, custard, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, summer on Aug 23rd, 2009
My brother became known as the family cheesecake maker early on. I think we were still teenagers when he started getting cheesecake cookbooks. In one of those, there was a recipe for amaretto peach cheesecake that became a family favorite.
I’m guessing it’s a Kraft recipe that’s widely available on the internet, but, frankly, [...]
