Archive for the 'Cake' Category
Chocolate-Malt Cake.
I’ve only had one interaction with the Momofuku Empire, or two, but they happened in the same day, within the relatively same window of time as each other, and my stomach was most definitely still digesting what I had eaten at the Noodle Bar when I wandered into the Milkbar. I mean, I was still [...]
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New York.
Last Saturday I left the cold and foggy summer days of northern California for the muggy and steamy heat of New York City. Except, upon arrival, New York did not at all live up to its stereotypical weather forecast. For the past 20 years, the empire state has reliably sweated and burned me each and [...]
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Chocolate Cupcakes.
Cupcakes are hard not to love. They’re just so cute. To be honest, I only made cupcakes because I wanted to frost them with little soft peaks, and then have them sitting around on the counter for a couple days, just to look at. I don’t really enjoy eating cake—batter, on the other hand, is [...]
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Since Ice Cream Week was a little heavy on the sugar and the calories, I thought that I’d lighten things up with a Chocolate Cake. With Ganache and Praline Topping. Because, you know, sugar and butter and cream and chocolate are so outside the realm of what I do. Change is good. Mixing things up. [...]
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Lemon Lust Cupcakes.
A weird thing has happened. It’s strange, it’s unheard of. It may be akin to pigs flying and certain fiery rings freezing over. The sky is no longer blue and the grass is a little bit less than green. Yes, I haven’t wanted anything to do with chocolate recently. Is it possible to be overloaded? [...]
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Whenever there’s a new cookbook or magazine—food related or not—essentially if there’s a glossy product with pretty pictures, the first read-through I do is not a read-through. It a flip-through in which I ‘oo!’ and ‘aw!’ at the pictures. Yes, I treat the first read through as if I’m reading a picture book, and oh, [...]
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F.I. Blueberry Coffee Cake
For creative purposes, nothing beats the beach. For cooking and baking sakes, the beach is nothing if not a catalyst for fast and creative cooking, and new recipes. This partly may be due to the fact that on the beach, there are no cookbooks. And certainly rare is the desire to actually follow a detail [...]
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The great thing about cake, this cake and really any other cake, are the endless frosting and filling possibilities. Sure, the cake is great. This one especially—dense while at the same time being fluffy, chocolaty but not too sweet, tender and moist— it’s a great cake. But really, if one bakes a three-layer cake, it’s [...]
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