Vanilla-Roasted Peaches

08/02/2022

After seeing beautiful peaches in the farmers market last week, I wanted to find a simple recipe for a peach dessert that took little preparation time and didn’t hide these summer jewels under a crust or streusel. A quick search through my old summer dessert files revealed this wonderful 2007…

Flourless Chocolate Cake

07/28/2022

I saw this recipe while looking though a Culinary Institute of America baking textbook and both the ingredients and procedure caught my eye. I noticed, for the first time in my chocolate cake baking experience, whipped heavy cream as an ingredient. The procedure is also quite unique: the eggs are…

A white plate topped with muffins covered in coconut.

Banana Coconut Muffins

07/21/2022

Like last week’s Blueberry Muffins, these are a lovely addition to the summer breakfast table. The combination of yogurt, banana and shredded coconut produces a unique and delicious muffin which goes extremely well with a cup of strong morning coffee.The recipe is from a lovely little book entitled Wild About…

Blueberry Muffins

07/14/2022

Leisurely summer vacation or weekend breakfasts are a perfect time for muffins. There might be yogurt and fresh berries, overnight oats, or a frittata, but a warm, freshly baked muffin fits in so well to a July or August breakfast where nobody is checking the time and the biggest decision…

Celebration Ivoire

07/07/2022

Celebration Ivoire is a wonderful example of taking a recipe and using its components to create a new dessert with a completely different appearance. Starting with the Ivoire et Chocolat recipe from October 22, 2021, I add fresh raspberries to the inside and top of the cake. The chocolate band…

Fresh Berry Shortcakes

06/30/2022

In my mind, a July 4th party dessert must meet a few requirements; easy to serve outdoors, include patriotic colors, and make guests smile. Strawberry shortcakes expanded to include blueberries meets those requirements. Set up with all the components for guests to assemble their own shortcake dessert is definitely smile…

Chocolate Cupcakes

06/22/2022

The bakery in the small Queens, New York community where I grew up was an important part of my family’s shopping and food life. The Cake Box was the source of rye bread, corn rye, our weekly Challah, black and white cookies, birthday cakes, Danish pastries, and cupcakes. As with…

Coconut Cupcakes

06/21/2022

This wonderful cupcake and frosting combination is adapted from an Emeril Lagasse recipe for coconut cake. The moist yellow cake uses unsweetened coconut milk as the liquid, which makes for a beautifully smooth cake batter. See the recipe note on coconut milk as all brands are not the same. I…