chocolate
Although in my family we are partial to the traditional flavors of hamentashen (we all love poppyseed) I can’t help but play around with new fillings every year. Not everyone is thrilled to get only poppyseed hamentashen in their Mishloach Manot and I like to provide our friends with interesting varieties they won’t be getting […]
If you asked someone to name a word association with marshmallows elegant probably would not be the word to come to mind. Maybe campfires or s’mores. Or rice crispy treats. Or the chubby bunny game at summer camp (although no longer allowed, I understand, due to safety issues). In most cases marshmallows are pure fun, […]
Butterscotch is one of my favorite flavors, so when I stumbled across the recipe for Chocolate Scotcheroos a few weeks ago on David Lebovitz’s site they immediately caught my eye. Peanut butter, rice cereal, chocolate, and butterscotch chips, what could be better for the perfect late night treat?Wanting to make them parve (and not being […]
As someone who always loves a good flourless chocolate cake I was excited to try this week’s Heavenly Cake Baker recipe, Baby Chocolate Oblivions. The recipe called for the cakes to be baked in silicone cupcake pans, so I decided to use silicone rose pans about the same size and was thrilled with how they […]
Sometimes great recipes come about by accident. I was experimenting with making cinnamon ice cream using a mimiccreme base and the custard turned out tasting very egg-y with almost no cinnamon flavor. Never one to throw out food that could be salvaged I threw in pinch of this and a few ounces of that. The […]
Last week I took an intensive chocolate making class at the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan. For five days straight we learned techniques of chocolate making. It started with basics like tempering chocolate and then covered various methods for dipped, molded and coated truffles and other chocolate confections. I had a blast and learned […]
