Tag: baking
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake
Hey, you! (Yeah, you!) Summer's coming. Let's go to the playground! Oh, or maybe the roller rink. Or both. Sorry...this cake makes me feel like I'm about 12 years old again. And I'm loving...
Soft and Chewy Rye Bread
'Tis the season for leftover corned beef. One of my favorite ways to enjoy it is a nice, fat corned beef on rye, spread thickly with mustard. This rye bread is easy and...
Dark & Fudgey White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Imposter alert! This is a brownie masquerading in cookie form.
These cookies are soft and a little chewy—and totally brownie-like in consistency. They're studded with white chocolate chips, and get their dark, fudge-y flavor from...
Basic Cooking: How to Test a Cake for Doneness with a Toothpick
Years ago now, I used to hang around a little cafe that a friend of mine owned.
One day, she charged me with keeping an eye on a couple of cakes that were in the...
Nice & Easy Pizza Dough (Plus Simple Red & White Pizzas)
I have a few different pizza recipes. This is my old standby, whip-it-together-then-forget-about-it pizza dough.
It produces a versatile, bread-y crust that can hold an almost-heroic amount of toppings. The crust is pre-baked, then topped...
Daring Bakers’ October Challenge: Thin-Crust Pizza
Last month, I joined the Daring Bakers, an online community of fabulous foodies and cooks who do a baking challenge every month. They provide the recipe, you provide the cooking.
Their blogroll includes some of...
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...
Overnight 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...
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...
Thick Crust Sausage & Cheese Pizza
This is another incidence of me combining homemade bread with pork products. If it happens again, I might just have a problem. I can admit that.
While it's not necessarily a fast thing to cook...