Tag Archives: chocolate

Devil’s Food White-out Cake Recipe

January 1, 2009 – 6:46 pm

 
Last night a few of us gathered at our place for an extravagant, multi-course dinner cooked by Brian to ring in a new year that we can only hope holds as many good things for us as the one that has just passed. The meal had been built up for weeks and I felt a [...]

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Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons Recipe

December 22, 2008 – 10:16 pm

 
I’ve been on a baking binge for the holidays and I can’t seem to stop. It may be the four pounds of dark chocolate I bought at Jacques Torres that is giving me the choco-pneumonia and the coco-loco flu. These decadent macaroons are another installment in the parade of chocolate creations (see: Chocolate Salted Caramels, [...]

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Coconut Oatmeal Lace Cookies Recipe

December 17, 2008 – 8:46 am

 
Get yourself a hat and hold the heck onto it! When messing around tonight in my kitchen experimenting with entry ideas for my office Iron Chef: Holiday Cookie Battle, I finally got around to this recipe, and I don’t care what Gourmet says, this is actually the best cookie of 2008.  

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THE New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

December 12, 2008 – 3:21 pm

 
Thank god for the so-called “liberal news media” who in addition to the truth, also bring us articles by folks who obsessively test recipes, seek the help of the experts, and create dozens of versions in their own kitchens, all to bring us the fruits of their hard-hitting research: the perfect recipe. They did it [...]

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Chocolate Hazelnut Cookies Recipe

December 11, 2008 – 12:07 pm

 
Like every kid, I loved decorating cookies at Christmas. The only problem was, mine were cookies that only a mother could love. Pastry decorating has never really been my forte (even though I began my illustrious foodservice career at Mrs. Fields: the famous purveyor of giant, custom-decorated chocolate chip cookies), and yet in my old [...]

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Chocolate Salted Caramels Recipe

December 8, 2008 – 11:22 am

 
Trying to win somebody’s heart? Here’s a tip: save yourself the time that you might spend on writing flowery poems or tracking down a gigantic double-speaker tape deck to hold over your head beneath the window of your beloved, and instead just make these. And then try not to eat them all before gifting them. [...]

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