The recipe for this Glazed Fudge Cake comes from a co-worker and friend back in the day when I was working at a kitchen specialty shop in Chicago. I have to admit it was a dream job in some ways (not monetarily, of course), but in the respect that I was working at a job…
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Passover Chocolate Raspberry Dreams
As I mentioned in my last blog baking at Passover can be quite challenging. I discovered this recipe many years ago in Chicago, most likely from an issue of the Chicago Tribune Food Guide featuring Passover Dessert Recipes. We are going to mys sister’s this year for our Seder, and I volunteered to bring the…
Passover Lemon Sponge Cake
Passover begins tomorrow evening at sunset. Celebrated in commemoration of the Exodus of Egypt it is one of the world’s oldest continually observed Jewish festivals still retaining its ancient charm even in today’s world. Today, despite the spread of Jews throughout the world, the eight-day festival maintains its family character and begins with the traditional…
Carrot Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Cake?… Carrot Cupcakes? However you slice it, what a way to get your veggies! This recipe I’ve had for twenty plus years, and have no idea where it came from, but if I had to guess I would say the Chicago Tribune Food Guide. It is written for a bundt pan, but I’ve always…
VALENTINE CUPCAKES Turn your favorite chocolate cake recipe into cupcakes, frost with my fluffy white frosting, to which you add a drop of red food coloring to give it a hint of pink, and top with a heart shaped candy! HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Spiced Cranberry Bundt Cake
For many of us the holidays are synonymous with baking. We not only bake our family’s traditional favorites, but many of us love to find a recipe with a new twist on an old favorite. While browsing through my past November issues of cooking magazines (remember I mentioned that is a pre-Thanksgiving ritual of mine),…
Chocolate Bonbons
Recently I made these Chocolate Bonbons to take to my sister’s. She shared them with her neighbor, who recently sent me a message asking if I would share the recipe with her because her family really loved them. So here it is… This recipe comes from one of the first cookbooks I purchased when I…
Coconut Layer Cake With Fluffy White Frosting
Coconut Layer Cake (adapted from Fannie Farmer’s Fresh Coconut Cake) 3 cups all purpose flour, plus extra for dusting the pans 1 tablespoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus extra for greasing pans 2 cups sugar 4 large eggs 1 cup whole milk (flavored with 1…
Honey Cakes For A Sweet Year
The Jewish New Year known as Rosh Hashanah begins this evening. It marks the beginning of the Jewish Calendar with this year being 5771. Over the centuries, it has become associated with many food customs such as eating sweet foods to symbolize hopes for a “Sweet New Year”. It is customary to dip apples and…
CLASSIC CHEESECAKE WITH BLUEBERRY TOPPING The recipe for this classic cheesecake comes from the October 2001 issue of Bon Appetit magazine. It was featured on the dessert menu of Alain Ducasse’s Spoon Food & Wine restaurant located off the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Although the dessert menu which also featured Ben & Jerry’s ice cream seems…