French Yule Log
The December 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured a modern French holiday confection, the frozen yule log, consisting of layers of cake, ganache, creme brulee, feuillete crisp, and mousse under a shiny glaze. I went with…
Tag Archives: chocolate
Brownies-n-Cream
A baking mistake made by frazzled parents turns into cookies 'n' cream heaven. (Plus a brownie recipe so simple I'm still not sure how we managed to screw it up!)
Puffed and Stuffed
The August 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured chocolate eclairs made with choux pastry, filled with chocolate pastry cream, and dipped in shiny chocolate glaze.
On the Bandwagon
Fashionable, super-sized chocolate chips cookies a la Jacques Torres, employing cake and bread flours, an overnight rest for the dough, and a garnish of finishing salt.
Daring Bakers Go Nuts
The July 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured a filbert gateau with praline buttercream and a ganache glaze. It gave me a chance to play with caramel and piping.
Gooey Chocolate Cakes
Dorie Greenspan's gooey chocolate cakes are a new mama's best friend---a decadent, but super-easy dessert that can be prepped in advance.
Speed Records and Brownie Sundaes
Velvety white chocolate ice cream tops gooey bittersweet brownies that can go from concept to plate in about 30 minutes with no boxed mix in sight (take that, Rachel Ray!).
First-Week Cake
My preferred cake for my own birthday, my mom gave me a hand baking this moist, chocolatey New Orleans sheet cake to celebrate the birth of my son.
Gator Pi(e) Day
Pi Day celebrated with chocolate coconut pie, and reminiscences about a fun children's book.
Time to Make the Long Johns
My attempt to tackle both chocolate-glazed yeasted doughnuts and the elusive creme-filled long john.
Consider Yourself Warned
A shockingly decadent version of my husband's favorite birthday cake, this towering dessert from the Junior's cookbook sandwiches an entire New York-style cheesecake between layers of fluffy German chocolate cake. Now that's what I'm talking…
Old Lady Hips
A one-pan vegan devil's-food cake that satisfies our chocolate cravings in a hurry, especially with a slathering of buttery chocolate frosting on top (What can I say? We will never be vegans...)
Meant to Happen
Homemade gianduja (chocolate-hazelnut) gelato is heaven in a bowl (or cone, or any other chosen delivery system).
Oatmeal Carmelitas
A favorite bar cookie with oatmeal and walnuts for crunch, oozing caramel and melty chocolate.
Now How Often Does That Happen?
A surplus of egg yolks gave me the perfect excuse to whip up a quart or two of tin roof ice cream, chock full of fudge ripple and chocolate-covered peanuts.
Yule (B)Logging, Part 2: Sawing Logs
The December 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a traditional yule log, or buche de noel, which is decorated to emulate an actual log. My "log" was embellished with meringue mushrooms, marzipan ivy and acorns, ganache…
Yule (B)Logging, Part 1: Logrolling
The December 2007 Daring Bakers challenge featured a traditional yule log, or buche de noel, which is decorated to emulate an actual log. My version used a chocolate genoise, and chestnut and dark chocolate buttercreams.
Christmas Cookies, Part the Fourth: Noodle Clusters
These candy-like cookies couldn't be easier to make: melted chocolate and butterscotch chips are stirred into crunchy nuts and chow mein noodles.
Christmas Cookies, Part the First: Buckeyes
You don't have to be from Ohio to enjoy these chocolate-dipped peanut butter balls, though it might help in explaining the name's reference.