Cake

This is the Bishop’s cake from the Silver Palate Cookbook and it’s a killer. The Silver Palate Cookbook by Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso is a classic and essential cookbook for any home chef.  Seriously, if you don’t own it, buy it; you won’t regret it.  First published in 1982, The Silver Palate Cookbook was […]

When I was little, I strongly disliked cooked carrots.  I still don’t love them, but their sweetness makes them an incredibly important vegetable in the cooking world.  And when it comes to baking, they are one of the only vegetables to have their very own cake.  I came to enjoy carrot cake later in life. […]

If you are a chocolate lover, keep reading. There is nothing more delicious and decadent than a molten chocolate cake.  It is simple but delightful.  A molten cake is a combination of two things, a flourless chocolate cake (often referred to as a decadence cake) and a soufflé. Its name refers to the lava-like chocolate […]

Passover is approaching, as is the scramble to come up with a dessert to bring to the Seder you’ve been invited to.  Preferably a dessert that is not the flourless chocolate cake that you made last year.  Try this recipe.  This is a cross between a true sponge cake, a classic French genoise, and a […]

My first job out of culinary school was working as a line chef; it was a position for which I was vastly unqualified at the time.  On my second day, I learned that they did not have a pastry chef.  Although I was hired as a saucier (responsible for the meats, fish, and sauces) I was […]