May 8th, 2013 by
Recipe: Banana Fudge Cookies
As many of you know, when you taste test samples here at the King Arthur test kitchen, you’re required to “Bite and Write.” Sure, everyone loves to bite into cakes, cookies, and ice cream. When the email pops up saying “warm brownies in the kitchen” our hallway can resemble that stampede scene from Jurassic Park.
February 12th, 2013 by
Recipe: Chocolate Loaf Cake
I brake for chocolate.
I also break for chocolate.
And bake with chocolate.
How about you?
December 5th, 2012 by
Recipe: Easy Microwave Fudge
Would you believe I live about 45 minutes away from the Guinness World Record’s longest candy counter in the world? Would you believe I don’t go there for the candy? For me, it can be all about the fudge…
November 19th, 2012 by
Recipe: Triple Chocolate Scones
Thanksgiving is SO not about chocolate.
Chocolate cream pie? Maybe.
But chocolate cake? Chocolate chip cookies? Chocolate ice cream?
Try pecan pie, pumpkin bread, and ginger cookies. Cranberry cake. Apple crisp.
Chocolate, for one day in the year, takes a back seat to all its usually subsidiary flavors.
Notice I say, for ONE day of the year: Thanksgiving. And really, what’s to prevent you from slipping a bit of fudgy goodness onto the menu really early in the day Thursday? Triple Chocolate Scones go wonderfully well with your morning cup of coffee.
Plus, they augment the coffee’s caffeine as you’re prepping the turkey at 5:30 a.m…
July 13th, 2012 by
Recipe: Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
You know what the nice thing about zucchini is?
Ummmmm….
Well, for one thing, you don’t have to peel it.
And it’s got a pretty neutral flavor, so it doesn’t clash with the tomatoes on your shish-kebab, or the onions and Parmesan in your frittata.
Plus it grows really, really easily.
And very, very fast.
To say nothing of extremely large.
August 7th, 2011 by
Recipe: Favorite Fudge Birthday Cake
Are you a Designated Birthday Cake Baker (DBCB)?
The person who, every time someone in the office has a birthday, receives the “nomination” to make the cake?
Not only are you nominated – you run unopposed, right?
April 17th, 2011 by
Recipe: Easy Chocolate Pudding Cake
The following recipe story is another post in the series of “I didn’t know you could make THAT in a bread machine” blogs – a series of which I’m inordinately fond.
I’m a lazy baker.
There, I’ve said it. While I enjoy the process of baking – indeed, even love to bake, when time isn’t too much of the essence – I’m usually more attracted by the end result than how you get there.
November 22nd, 2010 by
Recipe: Peppermint-Fudge Cupcakes
It’s that time of year again: the holiday season, those four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas when peppermint joins chocolate center stage.
At heart, I’m a chocolate traditionalist. Not for me chocolate/orange, chocolate/raspberry, or chocolate/any other fruit combo, thanks very much. I’ll take my chocolate dark and plain.
OK, I do make exceptions. Chocolate-dipped strawberries… plump dried apricots half-coated in dark chocolate… even chocolate cherry cordials, with their sticky liquid dripping off your fingers – all good.
And chocolate/coffee – more than good. Exquisite.
But chocolate cake with Grand Marnier frosting? No thanks.
November 11th, 2010 by
Recipe: Cranberry-Fudge Pie
Imagine the tart-sweet taste of homemade cranberry sauce, its tender/crisp berries bursting on your tongue.
Now consider toasted pecans, embedded in rich dark chocolate.
And a crunchy, pleasantly sweet-nutty graham cracker crust.
Right about now, you’re either thinking YES…
…or EWWWWWWW!
October 25th, 2010 by
Do you remember your 10th birthday?
Big day, right? At last – double digits!