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 | Sep 5, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
This post is the first of two. I had to flip a coin to see which would come first. No, that’s not true. Look at that picture. The brownie is very good, made with cocoa and very cakey. But it is this frosting that literally tops this treat. This frosting,...
by Brian | Jul 10, 2014 | Recipes
Devil’s food cake is an American creation, a fairly recent one from the very early 1900’s. The first printed recipe occurred in 1905. And, then evolution set in. The cake is characterized by being more moist and more airy than traditional chocolate cakes....
by Brian | Mar 6, 2013 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
“Too big.” I said. I know what I am talking about. “They’ll be fine,” Suzen countered. I bit my tongue. I waited. They baked. They cooled. Suzen made the filling and began to assemble these sandwich cookies. “Too big,” she...
by Brian | May 24, 2012 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Todays’ cocoa, and today’s buttermilk, have some different chemical properties than they did 60 years ago. Old fashioned cocoa could then give a cake a lovely “reddish” color — a color I believe that resembles the “red velvet” color so popular today. This is a very...
