by Brian | Jan 1, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
In The Homemade Kitchen, Alana Chernila calls this a Summer Trifle. And indeed we usually offer up this dish with mounds of fresh summer fruit. However, nowadays even in the dead of winter you can get berries galore. Fresh peaches? No, I admit we can’t find...
by Brian | Dec 29, 2015 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
I errored. I’m sorry. In early December I did a Throwback Thursday Cookbook review of The Good Cookie by Tish Boyle. I mentioned this book contains a couple of cookies that, in and by themselves, make this monumental cookie encyclopedia a “must-have”...
by Brian | Dec 28, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
From Christmas to New Years, we may be traveling or hosting and very likely feasting. Pomegranates are in season and we can always find strawberries. From Amber Rose in the lively new book Nourish, here is her Summery Pomegranate & Strawberry Cake. [Oh, you...
by Brian | Dec 23, 2015 | Dessert Digest
Would you like a White Christmas? You can have one. You can bake one up. All you need is some white chocolate, some coconut, and some happy time in your kitchen. This magnificent cake is from Sweet by Valerie Gordon. On the outside, there is a white chocolate...
by Brian | Dec 21, 2015 | Dessert Digest
For many of us, there is one dessert that is cardinal to Christmas: Bûche de Noël. I could use a thousand words to attempt to describe this wonder, but the picture above is surely better than one or two or three thousand words. This recipe and the lovely...
by Brian | Dec 18, 2015 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
As 2015 ends there is an opportunity to look back to a wonderful book from 2014. Better Homes and Gardens published the Ultimate Cookie Book, a volume you can spend years wandering through. Well, wandering, baking, and tasting. This cookie is described as the perfect...
