Larry got a couple of decent photos of these cookies immediately after I put them together, but I decided to show a later image so I don’t have to describe the horrors that are happening in my kitchen right now. Despite my love of all things caramel, alfajores aren’t my favorite cookie. It’s the sandwich [...]
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I just love Bundt cakes. And pair a Bundt with copious amounts of butter, rum and black pepper, and I’m in heaven. This cake doesn’t disappoint. It’s got a dense, moist crumb that has all of the qualities of a good rum – slightly sweet and aromatic, with a hint of molasses – without being [...]
I was happy to see something relatively simple on this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings schedule. And Larry and I both love key lime pie. This is an interesting twist on the traditional key lime pie. I approve of the pretzel crust – it’s a little salty, and the flavor works really well with the tart [...]
I went a couple of different directions with this lovely pistachio chiffon cake. I wasn’t up for a huge layer cake, so I split up the batter into a dozen cupcakes plus a cute little 6×3 cake, which I split into three layers. I love how the 6″ cake looks, and it makes nice, perfectly [...]
I’m admitting to cutting this recipe way down – it’s only got three ingredients, so I scaled to 2 ounces of milk chocolate. I just wasn’t sure about this, especially since I don’t particularly like peanut butter. I’m glad I didn’t make more. Not because I didn’t like it, but because it tastes just like [...]
I think it’s official: I don’t like lemon shaker pie, and neither does Larry. I’m positive this is a great version – the Baked crust is always phenomenal, and the recipe instructions to blanch (optional, but I did it) and sugar the lemons first does a good job of reducing the bitterness. The resulting filling [...]
These cute little sandwich cookies use the same sweet filling as the Salt-N-Pepper Sandwich Cookies. Funny, I liked the filling with those cookies, but I thought it was a tad too sweet with these. The cookies are simple to make, and have a surprise ingredient – malted milk powder. It makes them strangely good and [...]
Black and white cookies aren’t something we see on the West coast. I’ve only had them in New York, and only at William Greenberg desserts – so that’s my only point of reference. Now that I think of it, I don’t understand why there aren’t black and whites at bakeries here in California. It’s not [...]
Budino is just a fancy word for pudding, and I’m always into pudding. My favorite kinds of desserts are anything creamy, custardy, and chocolate is a bonus. The other great thing about pudding is that it’s extraordinarily quick and easy to make. The hard part is waiting for it to set up. I like this [...]
This is a lightly spiced sour cream cake. It’s easy to make (maybe on a Sunday night?). The frosting is good, a pretty straightforward chocolate frosting. It’s not exactly a pretty cake. Yellow and square, with chocolate frosting on top. It’s functional, because sometimes you just need cake. I think I baked mine a little [...]
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