Cherries

Cherry Crisp

July 1, 2011 | 40 Comments | Email | Print
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Fruit crisps are one of my favorite parts of the overabundance of fresh fruit associated with summer. No matter what you throw under that crisp, crumbly topping – blueberries, rhubarb, blackberries, apples, cherries, peaches – when you open the oven door you are greeted with bubbling fruit and that coveted crumble topping. It’s sort of [...]

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Russian Pound Cake

October 4, 2010 | 43 Comments | Email | Print
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There is something tremendously comforting about pound cake. It’s dense, buttery and, if baked correctly, supremely moist. This particular pound cake is kind of like pound cake on steroids. My mom said that waaaaaay back in the day when I was a mere apple in her eye, a lady she worked with brought this cake [...]

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Toasted Almond and Candied Cherry Ice Cream

August 20, 2010 | 43 Comments | Email | Print
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Well, I finally polished off the Fresh Strawberry and Chocolate Fudge Swirl Peanut Butter ice creams, making lots of room in the freezer for a new flavor. A couple of weeks ago I was thumbing through The Perfect Scoop while sitting with my grandma and she asked what types of ice cream recipes were in [...]

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Black Forest Cake

June 22, 2010 | 52 Comments | Email | Print
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Every year my family typically celebrates Father’s Day in conjunction with my grandpap’s birthday since it always falls within a few days of the holiday. Last year when I made dessert I wanted to make a cake that incorporated one of my his all-time favorite desserts/snacks: Oreo cookies. So, I served up the Cookies and [...]

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Spumoni Ice Cream Terrine

July 31, 2009 | 34 Comments | Email | Print

When I asked my Chief Culinary Consultant last week if he had any ideas for new ice cream flavors since I still had two more Fridays left for celebrating July’s National Ice Cream Month, he offered up quite a few great ones, but the one we both got excited about was spumoni. I haven’t had [...]

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