Heavenly Bakers: Pumpkin Cake

November 2, 2009

I am very excited to announce that I have joined the baking group Heavenly Cake Bakers. We are going to be baking through Rose Levy Beranbaum’s new book Rose’s Heavenly Cakes. As an avid baker I knew that there was a serious gap in my baking library since I didn’t own a book by the […]

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SoHo Globs

October 28, 2009

In my ongoing effort to bake more from recipes I have collected, rather than always seeking out new ones, I decided the time had finally come to make these cookies. I needed something sweet and chocolatey to take to a friend and these seemed like they would fit that bill. I got the recipe from […]

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Roasted Pear Amaretto Trifle

October 26, 2009

Trifle is one of my favorite desserts. A layered dessert consisting of sponge cake, fruit, and pastry cream, there is something both elegant and comforting about it at the same time. I love the interplay of textures and flavors, and the beauty of layers in a clear glass bowl gets me every time. Until recently […]

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Rosemary Poached Pears

October 20, 2009

A few weeks ago someone emailed me asking if I had any good “plain” parve pound cake recipes. I wasn’t much help since I had never made a parve pound cake, but it did make me realize I needed to remedy that situation. I tend not to make simple cakes like pound cake, which is […]

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Cinnamon Ice Cream, Perfect for Any Season

October 15, 2009

For my birthday a few weeks ago my wonderful husband got me a new ice cream maker. And not just any ice cream maker. This one has a built in compressor so I can turn it and make ice cream any time I want without having to have freezer space for the canister at all […]

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Marshmallow Peanut Butter Crunch Brownies

October 9, 2009

When I saw the recipe on Brown Eyed Baker this week for Marshmallow Crunch Brownies on the Brown Eyed Baker this week I knew that I had to make it. Immediately. And I am sure glad that I did. As my husband said the minute I walked through the door from work today “those bars […]

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Apple “Brown Betty”: A Comforting Dessert in No Time at All

October 7, 2009

Growing up we had a large pippen apple tree right outside the kitchen window. It was prolific, to say the least, and the apples were often on the tart side for eating which made them perfect for baking. Except for the years when my dad was trying to perfect his apple tarte tatin recipe the […]

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Easy Apple Tarts

September 21, 2009

Sometimes it is nice to make a tasty dessert worthy of company with very little effort. I always think that the dessert is as important as the meal, but when there is lots of cooking to be done there simply aren’t endless hours to spend on the dessert. These simple apple tarts are perfect for […]

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Apple and Honey Marshmallows: A Different Way to Usher in a Sweet New Year

September 18, 2009

One of the most traditional foods for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is apples dipped in honey. Sure no holiday meal would be complete without sweet round challah, but the flavor that most epitomizes this holiday season for many people is the combination of apples and honey. This year I decided to play with […]

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Moist and Wonderful Honey Cake

September 16, 2009
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Honey cake is one of the traditional foods for Rosh Hashana but I have to admit that I really don’t like most honey cake. It is usually so dry it sticks to the roof of your mouth in a quite unpleasant way. I am not one to pass up sweets but I will gladly walk […]

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Pumpkin Cheesecake

September 14, 2009

A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a kosher taste test in Bryant park of the book America’s Most Wanted Recipes by Ron Douglass.

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