by Brian | Apr 29, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
When you open the pages of a new cookbook, that first recipe can make an important statement. That certainly happens in The Cardamom Trail by Chetna Makan. This upside-down cake is a beauty to behold, exotically rich to the eye and surely to the palate. I happen to be...
by Brian | Mar 29, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Everyone seems to love pound cake. When there is a secret player of cinnamon streusel, the love only deepens. You will know this cake is perfect long before you bake it. How? Just taste the batter. In Step 4, author Tish Boyle of The Cake Book has you beat sugar and...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In that bag of books you would take to a desert island, surely you must include Flo Braker’s Baking for All Occasions. My review from a few years ago may convince you of that. We keep the book on a convenient shelf and Suzen reaches for it once a month or more....
by Brian | Mar 23, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Suzi does a lot of work with celiac patients. We are the official test kitchen for the Center for Celiac Disease at Columbia University. Once a month, patients and their families come to Cooking by the Book to prepare an entire meal including dessert. Suzi has...
by Brian | Mar 16, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For some reason, we tend to eat pumpkin only in a short window of time each fall. Frankly, a lovely pumpkin pie seems to be an appropriately colored Easter dessert. Pumpkin cookies or squares are actually welcome any time. Suzi’s corporate customers at Cooking...
by Brian | Mar 14, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I recently posted a review of a lovely book, Fika: The Art of Swedish Coffee Break. We often think of coffee or espresso being consumed in a Paris café or an Italian square. But the Swedes drink more per capita and they do it with fervor. Coffee is not enjoy in...
