Archive for the 'chocolate' Category
Chocolate Almond Apricot Biscotti
October 19th, 2011by Caroline You never know what will draw you into a recipe. A picture? An ingredient? Sometimes it’s a word; any recipe with the word “caramelized” in it gets me. Or it can be a phrase, as in the line that grabbed me several years ago when I spotted this recipe in Sunset magazine and [...]
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
September 19th, 2011by Caroline A friend of mine reviews reviews for websites; you read that right: if you write a product review of an item you buy online, chances are she or one of her colleagues will vet your review before it is published, checking for inappropriate language, slander, and other no-no’s. But even acceptable reviews are [...]
Three Chocolate Cakes
July 19th, 2011by Caroline We’ve been feeling pretty celebratory around here since learning the terrific news that Shambhala Publications/Roost Books will publish our anthology, The Dish: Making the Meals that Make Your Family. It seems an appropriate time to give you a big cake bonanza: three recipes! all for chocolate cake! I hesitated briefly because I don’t [...]
Super-decadent No-Bake Fudge Brownies
July 6th, 2011by Caroline I may never bake another brownie again. Oh, I will certainly make brownies, but now I’ve found a recipe that rivals even the one I discovered in Kate Moses’ gorgeous memoir-with-recipes, Cakewalk, the brownie recipe I said — oh, less than two months ago — was the last brownie recipe you would ever [...]
First Honey Ice Cream, then Chocolate Cake
June 18th, 2011by Caroline After making the honey ice cream the other day, I had 6 egg whites left over. I could have made an egg white omelette, I suppose, but that’s not really my style. This is more my style: This recipe is similar — in look and execution — to Lisa’s chocolate roulade, though her [...]
Chocolate Brownie Frosting
June 1st, 2011by Caroline I don’t do elaborate kid birthday parties. Knowing that most children are happy with a treat and the chance to play with their friends, I don’t see any reason to knock myself out. I am lucky that my sons both have spring birthdays, so we can keep everybody in the backyard, and for [...]
The Only Brownie Recipe You Will Ever Need
May 18th, 2011by Caroline Last summer, to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, Tony and I arranged back to back sleepovers for our kids with two different families, and thus managed our first two-night getaway together since Ben was born. We’d each been away longer on our own (or with friends and family), both for work and for [...]
Birthday Cake
February 16th, 2011by Caroline Five years ago today, in honor of her milestone birthday, I organized a virtual birthday celebration for my sister by having her many friends post birthday cake pictures on their blogs. This year, with fewer of us blogging and more of us on Facebook, her friend Becca and I organized a somewhat different [...]
Black & Orange Oreos for the Team
October 15th, 2010by Caroline The other day we were brainstorming about foods we could make to celebrate our team — the San Francisco Giants — moving into the playoffs. Conveniently, their uniforms are a seasonal black and orange so we were thinking pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips (or chocolate frosting), and for dinner, black bean and sweet [...]
Bake Sale Chocolate Chip Cookies
October 9th, 2010by Caroline On a recent episode of Top Chef: Just Desserts (yes, I watch it, and I watch Top Chef, too), the contestants were asked to make items for a bake sale. One made a milk chocolate ginger pudding. Another made strawberry shortcake. Have these folks never been to a bake sale?! The winning recipe, [...]