My mother sometimes visits the bustling Bergenline Avenue shops and buys little cartons of tres leches cake, the treat soaked in three different kinds of milk that’s rich in all senses of the word. She keeps them in the freezer and eats them little by little like a squirrel with its winter stash of acorns. [...]
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Simple additions and subtractions
Posted in Cakes, Tres Leches on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Breaking: Baking update
Posted in Bread, Cakes, Cornbread, St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m sorry. It’s been awhile. Last week, my legs were about to give out after a day off from some long, long nights but I still needed an accompaniment to turkey chili. So I cracked open Mollie Katzen’s Still Life With Menu Cookbook and made the Simple Corn Bread recipe. And indeed-y, it was smoove-as-buttah [...]
Goo + butter? Yes, please.
Posted in Cakes on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This St. Louis Gooey Butter cake would really hit the spot right now. It’s before noon, sure, but only by 14 minutes.
Plot potato
Posted in Cakes, Sweet potato cake on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my fall projects will be an attempt to reverse-engineer a cake my mother bought for my father’s birthday back in spring from a small hybrid Asian-French bakery chain in North Jersey called Gateaux. This is not just any old cake, you see. It’s made of sweet potato, not the orange-y ones often mistaken [...]
So you went apple picking. Now what.
Posted in Cakes, Upside down apple cake on September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have a backlog of ideas for this site, and I had made some ghetto apple crisp last week that I wanted to blather on about, but I figured I should write about something more substantial for you since I’m barely keeping up with this week to week. So here goes. Lots of pictures! My [...]
Go ahead, call me a snob
Posted in Cupcakes, Mixed berry tart, Pies and tarts, Restaurants, Tartine on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying to enjoy as much as the city has to offer me at night before I officially sign my soul away to the restaurant, so one humid night this week, the bf and I walked to Tartine in the West Village for dinner al fresco. One block away at Magnolia Bakery, throngs of people [...]
Fun, home-grown and home-made
Posted in Blackberries, Blueberries, Cakes, Cupcakes, Ingredients on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Between a quick trip to the beach and a little get-together Saturday night, we stopped by at my bf’s childhood home to feed the cats (his parents are away) and pick some fruit. I knew his mother is a big gardener, and I knew these fruit bushes existed, but it was the first time I [...]
Your wedding cake flavors
Posted in Cakes, Flavors on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not too many of my friends were married in our 20′s, but that’s about to change soon, if it hasn’t already been changing. After discussing weddings of mutual friends and acquaintances, I asked N. what flavors she would want for her wedding cake, which I’ve informally signed on to make, and she said rhubarb—she loves [...]
