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This pie recipe was recommended by my friend KAnn who adapted it from The Harry’s Roadhouse Cookbook. It’s very similar to Richard Sax’s Claremont Diner pie, which is a lighter textured cream pie with a filling stiff enough to pile above the shell. You can make it in a 9 inch pie dish with …
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After a week of making cake balls and doughnuts, I decided to start this next week with something a little more nourishing; and by that I mean with at least a tiny bit of nutritional value. Oatmeal cookies fit the bill, and this recipe has the benefit of being unique. It’s from Shirley …
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I first tried cake balls while judging a baking contest. My fellow judge, or to be more precise, the person teaching me how to judge because I didn’t have much experience, was Jacquy Pfeiffer. If you recognize the name chances are you’ve seen Kings of Pastry. And if you have seen Kings of …
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One of my favorite subjects came up on Epicurious the other day. Joanne Camas from the Epi Log mentioned she was obsessed with brownies and listed 10 Best Brownie Recipes based on fork reviews. I’ve tried quite a few on the list, the most recent being the Browned Butter Walnut Brownies, but the …
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Last week I bought a deep fryer and made doughnuts. The results were impressive, but I think I’ve found a better recipe. With mashed potato in the dough, these are ethereally light textured, not-too-sweet, and pretty much the best doughnuts I’ve ever made (keeping in mind I’ve only made doughnuts 3 times). This recipe is [...]
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Today was a lemon bar kind of day, but I didn’t want to make the usual type and was glad to stumble across this recipe. Unlike typical lemon bars, this one has a streusel topping. I found the original version in one of my favorite cookbooks, The Wellesley Cookie Exchange. That book never lets …
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After looking at doughnut recipes on the Internet last week, I very impulsively clicked over to a cooking website and bought a deep fryer — the Emerilware T-Fal model with the selling point being that it filters the oil automatically so you can use it again a few times before changing it. Hmm, not …
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Happy to have another opportunity to serve them, I decided to make the delicious vanilla bean cupcakes for today’s Bake for Japan event. But I wasn’t thinking. This was a bake sale not a school party, and at the last minute it dawned on me that I needed to package the cupcakes individually. Uh oh. [...]
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