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 [...]
Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream
This week seems to be ice cream week. If vanilla ice cream is my favorite, chocolate is the next runner up. This ice cream tastes like frozen chocolate mousse. It’s rich and creamy—with a boozy double dose of flavor from vanilla extract and chocolate liquor. Chocolate Truffle Ice Cream 5 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped 5 [...]
Tuxedo Meringues
Sometimes the sternest methods yield the most whimsical results. Such is the case with meringue cookies. Nothing makes me feel like I’m Baking (with a capital “B”) like making these meringues. The separation of the eggs. The melting of the chocolate. The multiple water baths. The whisking. Oh, the constant whisking. These cookies only have [...]
Drunken Chocolate Pound Cake
Boston has been cold and rainy the last few days, and it’s making me want to bake. Here’s one of my favorite pound cakes. It’s ridiculously rich and bourbon-y. A note on the coffee and booze in the recipe: It doesn’t matter what kind you use, but it should be something you wouldn’t mind drinking. [...]
Mayan Hot Chocolate
I can’t stop thinking about hot chocolate today. Maybe it’s wishful thinking that August will be more forgiving than July—and less oppressively hot and wet. Maybe it’s that the AC in my office is set on Arctic Frost today. Maybe I’m just dying for something sweet after my super spicy lunch. Mayan Hot Chocolate is [...]
Very Special Batman Cake
There’s a joke between The Angry Chef and one of our friend’s boys. It goes something like this: “I’m Batman!” “No, I’M Batman.” Rinse. Repeat. Late last year, we decided to put one of my newer cake molds to good use—the castle cake pan. (It’s a longer story than this, but I have a great [...]
