Posts by Friday Baking Project
Blueberry Crumb Cake
The memory remains vivid: it was a beautiful summer day, and we all sat outside, relishing the food and each other’s company. The cake was a resounding success, yet somehow, the recipe ended up tucked away in a file and forgotten over time. Two summers ago, while searching through my collection of recipes for entertaining…
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Working at the Harborside Inn in Edgartown my first summer on Martha’s Vineyard I had heard about a unique restaurant in Menemsha on the other side of the island. The Beach Plum Inn had two seatings, a view of the sunset, and offered a rotating menu of four entrees each evening. When making a reservation,…
Read MoreBanana Walnut Chocolate Chip Muffins
Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip Muffins Yield: 8 muffins # of Servings: 8 Method: Muffin Ingredients: Dry mixture: 1 ½ cups (7 oz / 198 g) pastry or all-purpose flour 1 tsp (.15 oz / 4 g) baking powder 1 tsp (.20 oz / 5 g) baking soda ½ tsp salt â…“ cup + 1 tbl…
Read MoreBanana Walnut Chocolate Chip Muffins
Banana Walnut Muffins were a popular choice among the rotating morning muffin offerings at Seven Layers. During our second summer, we decided to experiment by adding chocolate chips to the batter and that’s how these delicious Banana Walnut Chocolate Chip muffins were born. They were an instant hit! With good quality bittersweet chocolate chips, these…
Read MorePeach Blueberry Crisp
In this easy and excellent summer Peach Blueberry Crisp, you’ll toss farm fresh peach slices and blueberries with lemon juice, place them in a baking dish, cover with an oatmeal crisp topping and bake. That’s all there is to it! The fruits require no sweetener or thickener and the peaches don’t require peeling. Served warm…
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Chocolate Cloud Cake
PRINT Chocolate Cloud Cake Yield: One 8†cake # of Servings: 8 to 10 Ingredients The Cake: 8 oz (227 g) 61% to 64% chocolate, wafers or broken up4 oz butter, cut into pieces, room temperature 4 egg yolks (save whites for next ingredient group)2 eggs ½ cup (3.5 oz / 99 g) sugar 4…
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This quintessential fallen chocolate cake is a perfect summertime chocolate dessert. It requires no elaborate decorating, just a generous cloud of lightly sweetened whipped cream spread over at the last minute. Bake it in the morning and you’ll have the rest of the day for summer activities. Â The cake is delightfully rich yet light,…
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Blog: Wild Blueberry Streusel Pie
PRINT Yield: 1 9†pie # of Servings: 8 Ingredients: P¢te Bris©e (or sub-recipe) 1 ½ cups (7 oz / 198 g) all-purpose flour, or pastry flour1 pinch kosher salt9 tbl (4.5 oz / 128 g) unsalted butter, cold1 ¼ to â…“ cup cold water Streusel 1 cup (4.65 oz / 132 g) all-purpose flourâ…”…
Read MoreCherry Pie
There are two schools of thought on the procedure for Cherry Pie. One is a standard fruit pie preparation: combining cherries with sugar, flavorings, a thickener, and lemon juice, pouring the mixture into a pie shell, covering with a top crust. The pie is baked until the fruit bubbles, and the oven’s heat thickens the…
Read MoreSummer Pie Dough
This pie dough, made with half butter and half vegetable shortening is perfect for the summer months when making, and working with all-butter pastry doughs, such as P¢te Bris©e, can be challenging. The recipe is from my Patisserie Lanciani days, and the one I adopted for use in my Martha’s Vineyard pastry shop. The method…
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