Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
In Polish cooking, this cocoa cake ranks as the easiest baked dessert. I had to laugh out loud when I heard that from my Polish relatives. It is definitely not a mug or all-in-one bowl cake, so that means that it’s already a step above “easy,” at least in my book. For this cake, you […]
I noticed the other day that my dessert-oriented blog is missing one of my favorite desserts: the humble, all-American chocolate chip cookie. True, it is probably one of the easiest cookies on the face of the planet to make, and there is a recipe for it on every bag of chocolate chips that you can […]
Pouring a thin coating of shiny chocolate over a cake adds a certain elegance that a regular buttercream frosting just can’t pull off. It could be that I’m partial to chocolate. Or, it could be that I’m getting old. I can’t believe that I am saying this, but I’ve come to a point in my […]
The cafeteria at my college dorm had a killer dessert counter. Even for ice cream sundae day, they had mounds of my favorite candy bar of all time–Goldenberg Peanut Chews–as a topping choice along with true blue hot fudge and a whole host of other unhealthy but tasty goodies. One “everything but the kitchen sink” […]
My kids had a rough week – tests at school and grueling after-school activities – so I wanted to give them a nice treat. I wanted to bake them oatmeal raisin cookies, thinking that it’s the healthier alternative to chocolate chip cookies (ha, ha). Lo and behold, I’m out of raisins. Plain oatmeal cookies would […]