Imagine you’re sitting there eating a peanut butter cookie, but all of a sudden the cookie is enveloped in The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie. That cookie just got about 600 times better, didn’t it? I need to be clear: this recipe isn’t about taking a massively good brownie and simply swirling PB into it (been […]
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Dear Hazelnuts, Oh, how I’ve missed you. Where have you been? I let us grow apart, and I take responsibility for that. I have to admit that I let pecans and walnuts rule the nut roost ’round these parts, and I forgot about how freaking good you can be- all toasted and fragrant and nutty […]
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Yeah, it’s not a typo. I meant to say HazelNOT, not Hazelnut… for rather obvious reasons, don’t you think? (See picture above.) (These little charcoal nuggets are the disaster version of the Hazelnut Double Chocolate Cookies, which I totally recommend baking as long as you don’t have a Fisher & Paykel oven, which tends to char […]
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I have a hard time naming desserts, because I never find it possible to express exactly how excited I am about all of the layers and ingredients and degrees of sin. Like this winner: there’s the peanut butter cookie layer, which on its own would be satisfying as a last meal on death row. But […]
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For those of you who also wish that you could take a relaxing bath in a tub full of creme brûlée, this recipe is for you. I have extolled the virtues of creme brûlée before. So you know I’m a bit head over heels for it (see the maple version, the pistachio version, and the […]
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Which one to blame? That’s the question I was left with after returning to the kitchen all excited to put together my Creme Brûlée Meringue Cake and finding the creme brûlée ‘sampled’. And not by a human being. Was it Andy, the dairy-loving cat who loves butter and cheese and cream as though he was raised […]
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Who doesn’t like graham crackers? And since we already know that no one doesn’t like chocolate (not true- I met a lovely woman recently who really doesn’t care for it- strange but true), why not combine the two? I know, I know: the s’mores people already thought of the graham cracker/chocolate combination, but they never […]
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I have fantasized about doing this for a very very long time. Specifically since 2001, when I had my first Krispy Kreme donut ever and realized that donuts had to play a more prominent role in my life. (Really- KK came to Canada and The Husband and I joined the other gluttons like us in a […]
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Are you feeling like being a good little healthy person? Especially since it’s so close to your January 1st intention to eat like a healthy person does? Well, look no further. This recipe reeks of health and it doesn’t even taste like it. As a rule of thumb, when you throw chia seeds into anything […]
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Flashback to 2006, Rhodes, Greece. Imagine being served a cool bowl of Greek yogurt- drizzled in honey with walnuts sprinkled on top- on a scorching hot morning as a mere part of a massive breakfast that your impossibly generous innkeeper host will serve to you each day. (If you ever go to Rhodes, which I […]
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I owe you an apology, baker. I haven’t made peanut butter cookies for years (such shame! such horror!), despite having “Coming soon… Classic Peanut Butter Cookies” in the cookie section of the Recipe Index page for about two whole years. Good intentions? Yeah well, you know what they say about those. What was wrong with […]
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I know, I know. I missed the Valentine’s Day boat with these heart-shaped sandwiches of sin. I’m a horrible baker-wife. I realized on Valentine’s morning, as we sat planning what we were going to make for our most-romantic-dinner-on-the-couch-that-night-while-watching-The Americans-and-drinking-a-bottle-of-Monte-Bello, that I had nothing to offer The Husband by way of dessert. “Oh shit.” I hadn’t planned a dessert […]
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Who doesn’t love a fluffy, fruity mousse in the middle of the winter? Fresh off the “5th Worst Blizzard in Chicago History” (whatever), we needed something reminiscent of a warm summer night with crickets chirping romantically in the background. (I know that the crickets themselves aren’t romantic- although I’m not familiar with their mating patterns so […]
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Imagine taking buttermilk vanilla cake crumbs, frying them in butter until they’re a teeny bit crunchy, then sprinkling them over The World’s Greatest Fudge Brownie batter, then popping the pan in the oven and waiting for 27 pain-staking minutes of your life to go by until they’re ready to eat? I know. Exquisite torture. You might […]
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I stumbled upon this recipe in the Wall Street Journal one morning while in professional mode- reading articles about mergers and acquisitions and takeovers and other riveting topics. I must have ‘accidentally’ clicked on the food section and a picture of a cake sprinkled with pomegranate seeds slapped me out of my working-mode stupor. I […]
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I need you to know that there’s no turning back after making these chocolates. You can’t expect to make them, eat them, and live your life like you did the day before. No. Something will happen, some sort of inexplicable shift, some sort of transformation. You won’t be able to stop thinking about them, and […]
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Uh oh. This is a picture of what you don’t want to have happen when sugar and molasses are cooking away quite pleasantly one minute, then angry as hell the next. I turned my back to wash something at the sink, or maybe I bent over to talk to little Ralphie in a baby voice (our […]
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What’s that, you say? Could this really be a pie made with Golden Grahams, the cereal known and loved by sugar-crazed kids across the North American continent? I’ve got one word for you, and it’s the right one: Yes. I bought a box of the cereal last summer (for the express purpose of baking them into […]
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