April 2009

Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Brownies

April 28, 2009 | 30 Comments | Email | Print

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention, and that’s exactly how these brownies were born. I NEEDED dessert. What I didn’t want was to go to the grocery store. And so I started rummaging through my baking supplies to see what I could play with. I remembered that I still had Oreos [...]

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Pigu (Italian Gougeres)

April 17, 2009 | 24 Comments | Email | Print

It wasn’t until I broke one of these open for the purpose of my photographs that I realized what the perfect description for them is: Italian Gougères. Well, maybe a cross between an Italian Gougère and a baked ravioli (minus the ricotta). My grandma has made these the week of Easter for as long as [...]

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Torte

April 15, 2009 | 34 Comments | Email | Print

Many of you know that until recently I suffered from a number of food allergies, one of which was peanuts. As a result, the most tempting dessert featured in Dorie Greenspan‘s utterly superb Baking: From My Home to Yours, the Peanut Butter Torte, was sadly off limits to me. Oh, how I pined after it. [...]

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Banana Cream Pie and Tips on Pie Crust

April 7, 2009 | 14 Comments | Email | Print

If I were given this recipe and told that I had to come up with my own name for the pie, it would be Bananas Foster Cream Pie. With the exception of setting bananas on fire, the flavors in this pie are reminiscent of the classic dessert, Bananas Foster. In place of a typical vanilla [...]

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