desserts
Recipes
Two-Tone Fudgesicles
Inspired by Amanda's Blackberry, Rosemary and Yogurt popsicles and a recipe for Mexican Chocolate Pops on Leite's Culinaria, I decided to try my hand at a double-layered fudgesicle. I started with the spiced dark chocolate base...
Alice Medrich's New Classic Coconut Macaroons
Alice Medrich, chocolatier and author of scads of baking cookbooks, is famously a little wild with her desserts. She developed this recipe not with the standard bag of sweetened, angel flake coconut in mind, but those...
Black Bottom Oatmeal Pie
This pie has slowly but surely become a sort of cult favorite in the pie shop. We loved it from the start for its oatmeal–chocolate chip cookie quality; it’s like a pie version of that classic...
Salted Maple Honeycomb Candy
As it says in the recipe, you must try your hardest not to smooth out the blob after it comes out of the pan, even though you'll desperately want to do so. That's the key to...
Chewiest Sugar Cookies
These super-chewy cookies have deep dark sugar flavor and rich vanilla notes. The recipe calls for one cup of brown sugar, which we thought imparted a distinct brown butter taste. Not your traditional sugar cookie, but...
Belle Foley's Chocolate Cake
While making this cake I felt sent back in time: stirring up batter in a country kitchen, before the time of electric mixers and air conditioning. The batter came together quite easily with just a bowl...
Strawberry Tartlets with Breton Shortbread Crust
Brittany is a land of butter, and with this butter they make shortbread cookies that are gloriously golden and shatter-in-your-mouth crumbly. These sablés bretons are traditionally served on their own, but in recent years French pastry...
Applesauce Parfait with Cinnamon Bread Crumbs
This breakfast parfait (ugh, I hate calling it a parfait because it makes me think of all the super commercial yogurt parfaits from fast food chains out there, but oh well) is based off a Norwegian...
Deborah Madison's Sweet Potato Flan
Very lightly adapted from Deborah Madison's Vegetable Literacy. Madison recommends moist, orange-fleshed sweet potatoes here, specifically the Jewel or Garnet varieties, which are often labeled as yams. I've substituted maple syrup for her brown sugar or...
White Chocolate Snowflakes
When I was young, my mother made lots of different kinds of cookies in the weeks leading up to Christmas. These "snowflakes" (which technically aren't really cookies, but no matter) were among my favorites because they...