Chocolate-Walnut Cake from Cooking Light

Anna | April 30, 2007

I felt bad about not posting the crumb cake recipe yesterday, so last night I made another cake – an interesting one from Cooking Light. It can be found on the CL recipe finder and below. The only change I made was NOT to line the pan with waxed paper. The wax paper [...]

New York Crumb Cake

Anna | April 29, 2007

I’d been thinking about making an authentic New York Style Crumb Cake for quite sometime. What prompted me to go ahead and actually do it was the current issue of Cooks Illustrated which has an article about how to make it right. At first glance, the recipe looks pretty typical. However, CI’s is the only [...]

Fiesta Fudge Cookies

Anna | April 27, 2007

I am very proud of the Betty Crocker bar cookies. My dad, who doesn’t even like peanut butter, keeps asking me to make them. Our conversation goes something like this.
Dad: Hey, would you make me 6 dozen of those cookies? I’ll pay you for the ingredients.
Me: Make them yourself. They take 2 [...]

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Tahini

Anna | April 26, 2007

Along with Tuesday’s banana cake, I baked a batch of Eating Well Magazine’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies with tahini — the ones my mom thought might be too exotic for a funeral reception. When I tasted the cookies on Tuesday, I knew my mom was going to love them and that I’d probably spend a [...]

Banana Cake for My Grandmother’s Funeral

Anna | April 24, 2007

I’m turning off comments for this post. In fact, I wasn’t sure if I would post at all, but I’ve mentioned my grandmother quite often so it seems fitting that I should let you all know that she died. She’d been sick for a while and her death did not come unexpectedly, but it’s still [...]