There is a bakery on the Upper East Side of New York City where quite honestly, dreams come true.  If you’re slightly abnormal like me and spend time imagining baked goods, if pie and brownies dreams are at the forefront of your mind, then the Two Little Red Hens bakery on 86th street is quite [...]

Reminiscing about past cake is a terrible idea, mostly because cake memories are not nearly as good as cake-present.  Yeah, sure.  A recollection of how rich and luscious the chocolate ganache was is always nice, as is the thought of perfectly whipped, sweet frosting.  But come on.  I’d trade any remembrance of cake for, well, [...]

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While I can say, with absolute certainty, that I have never met a cake batter I didn’t like, there have been plenty of cakes post-oven that fall short of their liquid pre-cooked potential.  The disappointment is similar to that of a child just failing to reach their goals, and as the cake-parent, the post-bake is [...]

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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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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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