Archive for the ‘Chocolate’ Category

It’s here: the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Click here for the recipe.


Once you go Real Brownie, you never go back. Click here for the recipe.


If last week’s testimony to Georgetown coffee shop and bakery Baked and Wired didn’t convince you to visit, if the idea of banana cupcakes topped with peanut butter frosting and chocolate drizzle somehow didn’t justify a leisurely stroll, Metro ride, drive, train trip, plane flight, sail…let me try again. Yes, it may takes upwards of [...]

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Stay in with your loved one (or friends) and cook Valentine’s dinner. Click the link above for the recipe.


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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Dear god, it’s been almost a month.  Three weeks about, on the nose.  Have I not eaten in the past three weeks?  Clearly not.  With a combination of finals, Thanksgiving, and the relative consumption of food either after all the natural light is gone or—oh my—before the camera makes it out of the bag…golly food [...]

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Lowbrow and guilty pleasures, when it comes to food and television it seems, often if not always coincide.  Primary example—Forget You sung by Gwyneth Paltrow on this last week’s episode of Glee. To start with, the original song Fuck You by Cee Lo already is deeply rooted in the guilty pleasure well.  Singing children, diners, [...]

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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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Caffe Nute.

04Nov10

There are many things Italy can do apparently, and one of them is convert someone with a strong dislike of coffee into an espresso drinker.  It’s magic, I swear, that funny shaped peninsula filled with lovely sculpture, ridiculous amounts of silk and more than it’s fair share of pasta.  It’s converted my roommate, in what [...]

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