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Chocolate Cake from A La Mere De Famille
On a recent trip to Paris, Suzi and I tried an Airbnb. And I have to say it was a great experience. Our apartment was lovely, a tad tiny, but came at a third of the price of a hotel. We spent the...
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Apricot Soufflé from Alice Waters
Those are apricots from our local farmers’ market. How do you get them into a soufflé? Ah, there is an intermediate step. You need some Apricot Jam. This recipe for the soufflé comes from The Art of...
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Chocolate Comfort Cake with Creamy Chocolate Frosting from Baking Style by...
Someone reminded me that I owe you this recipe, this perfectly perfect recipe from Baking Style by Lisa Yockelson. This is the ultimate combination: luxury in the chocolate cake and then this creamy,...
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Egg Nog Ice Cream
Sometimes, Suzi offers a dish at Cooking by the Book that everybody wants. Everybody. In the front of the picture you see the Salted Caramel Brownie from The New York Times and Baked. It’s lovely....
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Tropical Cupcake Trifle from Sprinkles
Trifles are considered a wonderful summer dessert. It is not summer. Who cares? Why not pretend we are oh so close to warm or even hot days. This recipe comes from Spinkles, the wonderful book from...
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Summer Spiced Cake with Sautéed Peaches
I’m posting this in early May but peaches are already available. And they are good. You can enjoy this dish all the way to fall and, if you try it, I’m expect it will grace your table more than once....
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Fried Banana Pudding from The South’s Best Butts
We all sin. Some of us more than others. But sin seems to be an inherent part of being human. So is this dessert. I would not eat this on a weekly basis. But, oh, once a year? Heck yes. It’s pretty...
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Brown Sugar Meringues with Gooseberry Compote & Cream from Great Britain
In late summer the farmers markets can display some oddities for us. Like gooseberries. Native to Europe and Western Asia, gooseberries have a small but happy following in the United States. They are...
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Classic Fruit Pavlova with Blueberries and Peaches or Whatever
Now is the time to make pavolvas for dessert. We have fresh fruit, the days are warm, but not too humid. Humidity is the enemy of meringue and meringue is what we have here. You can add the fruits of...
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TBT Recipe: Banana Black Cake
In an earlier Throwback Thursday Cookbook Review, I featured one of the works by an American icon: Maida Heatter’s Book of Great American Desserts, TBT Cookbook Review: Maida Heatter’s Great Book of...
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