by Brian | Nov 7, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Soft, delicate, subtle. Not this cake. If you want a cake with “texture” and “flavor” that bites you back, resists your bite, then here is a recipe for you. And, it’s one to absorb any leftover berries you might find before fall freezes...
by Brian | Nov 5, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
We adapted this complex dessert from Diana Henry, who calls it Peasant Girls in a Mist. Here, we’ve added a layer of caramel to the mixture so there is plenty of sweet and crunchy and fruit, all proudly presented in a clear glass bowl. It’s one of those...
by Brian | Nov 3, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Our friends gave a dinner party last weekend and asked us for the Alpha and the Omega. For a Mexican-themed dinner, my role was to supply margaritas and dessert. We knew the main entry, pork shoulder cooked for hours with spices and chiles, would leave people with...
by Brian | Oct 27, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For Halloween, why not a Devil’s Food Cake. Chocolate. Rich. Tangy. Ah, but the devil is in the details. I know of no other cake recipe with such a diverse base of recipe alternatives. It’s a light, chocolate cake but getting to that end can mean...
by Brian | Oct 9, 2014 | Dessert Digest
This recipe comes from a book titled Pies, Glorious Pies. The book has several lovely pastry recipes, all shown with a sequence of photos to guide you from flour to dough. Yes, pastry making is something that can trigger high anxiety. I can bake a cake or make a...
by Brian | Sep 23, 2014 | Dessert Digest
Yesterday’s post for a Fresh Fruit Galette suggesting pairing your galette slice with ice cream. Buttermilk ice cream. Yes, that yellow object in the left of the picture is a very-hard-to-photograph portion of very-very-yellow buttermilk ice cream....
