If you follow my blog, you know that I’m part of a bake-a-long group, called Tuesdays with Dorie, and that we’re baking our way through Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, entitled Baking Chez Moi. We bake a new dish twice a month, and this week’s recipe is Brown Butter and Vanilla Weekend Loaf. In France, apparently,…
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How to Eat Your Cake & Burn It Off Too: BCM Gingerbread Buche de Noel!
IN WHICH I BAKE So I made the Gingerbread Buche de Noel from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Yours Anywhere. It’s the latest recipe that my bake-a-long group is trying; you can see my other attempts here, here, and here. And more to come! IN WHICH I ACHE Can…
Fruitcake Smackdown: Marzipan-Covered Bar Form! Plus cakepops.
The DH is still overseas, so I am continuing to sublimate my worry by baking. Baking, the panacea for all worries, since…forever? I can totally see a cavewoman doing this, far back into the reaches of time. Silly caveman out on a hunt for a wooly mammoth? Sublimate worries by collecting berries and grains and…
Fruitcake Smackdown: Loaf version!
I love fruitcake. There. I’ve said it. I know it’s much maligned, but I really do love it. My mother used to make it when I was younger, and I used to hold up the slices to the light and try to see through the fruitcake, imagining that the candied fruits were pieces in a…
Boeterkoekjes: Two-Bite Almond Blondies, Dutch-Style!
So I have a backlog of recipes to post. Tons of delicious things coming up! Today’s deliciousness is a recipe that I came up with last week, which was consumed within 12 hours of baking it. And I still crave more! What is this delicious dish? Boeterkoekjes! They’re basically two-bite almond blondies, super-moist and buttery…