Desserts
Maple Bundt Cake
A Beautiful Bundt I love maple syrup. I made three different cakes for a lunch party that I am catering today. One of them is a maple bundt cake with maple whipped cream. Maple Bundt Cake Serves 8 – 10 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking […]
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Ice Box Cake I was thinking about desserts that my daughter might like to make and I came up with this ice box cake that uses the Nabisco chocolate wafers. I can just see whip cream everywhere! FAMOUS Chocolate Refrigerator Roll Serves 14 2 cups whipping cream 1 tsp vanilla 1 pkg. (9 oz) FAMOUS […]
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Boozy Bon Bons My daughter, Grace, made these “bon bons” for me yesterday for a party I catered. They are quite boozy and delicious! Bourbon Balls 1 cup pecans 8 oz vanilla wafers, enough to make 2 cups 1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa, divided 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, divided 1/4 cup light corn syrup 1/4 […]
Continue ReadingWarm Sticky Toffee Cake
Warm, Sticky Dessert! There was an amazing recipe in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. It was an S.O.S. from a women who had this dessert at the Westside Tavern in West L.A. (inside the Westside Pavilion). She said it was the most delectable, amazing dessert: warm sticky toffee cake. Being a big fan of sticky toffee pudding, I […]
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Top Secret Pie Yesterday, I was watching an episode of The Best Thing I Ever Ate on the Food Network. The problem with the show is that I want to go to all the places immediately. I did eat at Giada’s favorite place in Los Angeles for Chicken Pot Pie. Anyway, there is this place in Inglewood, California […]
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Candy Thermometers…. Being the “people pleaser” that I am, I decided I would attempt to make my grandmother’s penuche. No one in the family seems to know what happened to the recipe. She did not do a lot of cooking, but she did make good pies, chocolate fudge and penuche. Unfortunately, I never actually witness […]
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Chocolate! I catered a lunch this week and made this deeply decadent dessert – Nigella Lawson’s (a kitchen Goddess) chocolate puddings. It’s incredibly simple and will satisfy your chocolate craving. Glitzy Chocolate Puddings Serves 8 4 oz. bittersweet chocolate ½ cup soft butter 4 eggs 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour ¼ tsp baking soda […]
Continue ReadingStrawberry Mousse
My Lucky Day Last night, I was out of blog ideas. It happens. You try to come up with 260 blog posts in one year! It ain’t easy, my brain is fried! Anyway, I was heading to bed and found a recipe that I had hand written in a class at La Varenne in Paris in 1982 […]
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Go Bananas! I have always gone bananas over bananas. I love them. I know I should not admit this, but I even like artificial banana flavor, like in taffy, runts, etc…. Orange circus peanuts taste just like artificial banana. I’m sure a certain ex-roommate/friend of mine will launch into the whole banana liqueur incident. When […]
Continue ReadingLemon Blueberry Buckle
Buckle, Crumble, Cobbler, Clafouti, Grunt, Brown Betty, Pandowdy? Huh? What is the difference between all these desserts? The similarity between them is that they all contain fruit. Crumble This is my daughter, Zoe’s, specialty, which is basically fresh fruit mixed with sugar and covered in a crumbly topping. The topping is a mixture of brown sugar, […]
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