Sweets Posts
Investigating the Myth of the 5-Minute Chocolate Cake
Let me start by saying: This is kind of ridiculous. Let me also say: I know how to make homemade chocolate cake. In the oven. Ask The Angry Chef, my mother, or my friends. I can make simple ones or elaborate ones. I can make complicated cakes with layers and fillings that are piled high [...]
Chocolate French Toast
If you find yourself with a stray loaf of chocolate bread in your kitchen, you can get into all sorts of devilishly decadent trouble with it. You could toast it and slather it with loads of creamy peanut butter. You could use it for a sandwich that evokes some of the flavors of a classic [...]
Bitter Triple Chocolate Bread
Warning: This is not an ooey-gooey, sticky-sweet bread. It’s a kind of grown-up yeast bread. It’s rich and dense—and is the sort of thing you can use to make out-of-this-world peanut butter sandwiches or decadent french toast. (I like mine warm with loads of cold butter.) It gets a deep chocolate-y flavor from chocolate chips, [...]
Molasses Ginger Drop Cookies
Call me crazy, but when I’ve had a long day, there’s something really satisfying about going home and baking cookies. The dough is simple to throw together. They don’t take long in the oven. And they make the house smell heavenly. These cookies are soft and chewy and oh-so-gingery. About the method These are really [...]
Gummi Bear Love: Sweet Decorating Ideas
Gummi bears are my favorite candy. Hands down. And while any gummi bear will do in a pinch, I definitely like Haribo Gold-Bears the best. Needless to say, I lost my mind when I saw this this morning: Target is selling these pink LED GummiLights by Jellio for $79.99. (You heard me right: That’s almost [...]
Rustic Apple Galette
This may be the shortest intro in Hungry Mouse history. We’re out the door in a few minutes on our way to a party, but here’s what we’re bringing. A galette is basically a rustic tart. It’s free-form and halfway open faced, so you get a peek at the gooey, caramelized fruit that’s hiding inside. [...]
Happy Sea Urchin Meringues
When I made a batch of Tuxedo Meringues a few weeks ago, my dear friend the Lady Otter and I got to talking about cookies. Our conversation went something like this: “Hey Mouse, you know what would be really cool?” “What would that be, Otter?” “Meringues in the shape of sea urchins. You could make [...]
Chocolate Tasting, Part 1
With Halloween approaching, the Angry Chef and I have candy on the brain. Consider this the first article in a series of chocolate tastings. We spotted these at Whole Foods and couldn’t resist picking them up. If you’re familiar their mind-bogglingly vast chocolate bar selection, you know we’re lucky we walked away with just two. [...]
Devil’s Delight Chocolate Pudding Cake
I swear I’ll post a salad recipe one of these days. I do eat green things. Honest. This cake is one of my all-time favorites. It’s dense, moist, and rich. It’s not a molten cake, but it’s plenty gooey with pudding-y goodness (call it a cross between cake and fudge). It’s bursting with four different [...]
Big Top Marshmallow Cookies
The Lady Otter and I were cruising through Whole Foods last night, on a mission to pick up some flowers for the host of the cocktail party we were attending. It was supposed to be a “quick in and out” trip, as we were already running a tiny bit late. It never quite works like [...]
