Tag: desserts

My personal favorite take on a bunny cake (or a birthday cake, or a Sunday afternoon for no reason layer cake) is an orange layer cake with orange buttercream frosting. I love chocolate cake, …

... OK, I am a sucker forchewy homemade chocolate chip cookies. And nothing quite hits the spot in the fall better than my friend Kas's molasses cookies. And these yeasted butter and sugar …

...Panforte, a specialty of Siena, a hill town near Florence, dates back to the middle ages, when it was paid as a tax to monks and nuns, and was reportedly carried by Crusaders on the …

<a title="Hazelnut Blondies by The Domestic Front, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/6495515827/"><img alt="Hazelnut Blondies" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6495515827_135ffd4a79.jpg" width="500" height="333" /></a> <br /> Fortunately, some kind soul long ago invented the bar cookie, which have the advantage of being delicious, baking up …

I wasn't sure what to call this. The recipe that I adapted it from is called a pie, but we all know a pie, and this is no pie. Cobbler would have a …

We get grapes from so many places around the world now that we forget to think of them as seasonal fruit, but anyone who lives in or near wine country knows that fall is the …

This is the easiest, most foolproof chocolate cake recipe I've ever made ... And because every cake deserves to be tarted up with frosting, I made this intensely flavored roasted pistachio buttercream frosting. The color is …