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dark chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting
makes six servings Everything in moderation, right? It’s fine to eat a slice of this cake if as long as I balance it out with a hearty kale and cashew salad or something. Here’s the problem..this cake is actually physically impossible to eat in moderation. You’ll cut a sliver off, eat it in a few seconds, and…
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pumpkin cheesecake with almond gingersnap crust + sukkot
makes twelve servings There are hundreds of Jewish holidays. Okay there are twelve, but that’s actually so many! We have a holiday to celebrate the birthday of the trees! Sukkot celebrates agriculture and autumn and the harvest season. It involves building and sleeping in a sukkah, which has three walls and an roof made of tree branches…
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pound cake with hidden pumpkin center
makes twelve servings Although this is a time-consuming cake, the final result is delicious and beyond impressive. Okay, so my cake ended up a little under baked. Substantially under baked. Near raw. BUT!! That does not mean that yours cannot be amazinglythoroughlyundoubtably cooked throughout. When the cake had been in the oven for an hour, I…
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honey cake with brown sugar and cream cheese buttercream
makes eight servings Happy New Year! Shanah Tova! The solemn atonement of Yom Kippur has passed and now we can make that cake that we meant to make on Rosh Hashanah! This cake was devoured before I got the opportunity to take a picture of its inside, but believe me when I tell you that it…
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caramelized onion and goat cheese empanadas
makes six (one empanada each) servings The best appetizer I’ve ever eaten was a caramelized onion and goat cheese cheesecake. I experienced this sweet-but-not-dessert cheesecake on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. Almost every restaurant on the island had a menu of twenty variations of fish & chips, and after the nausea-inducing ferry ride, seafood was not something…
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mac n grilled cheese
makes three servings I admittedly saw this on the Food Porn twitter account, but I’m glad I did. I took a shortcut by using boxed Annie’s White Cheddar Mac n Cheese, but feel free to make your own from scratch. As for bread, I sliced up some challah from the JCC. The cheese powder didn’t…
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sweet potato, parmesan, and chive waffles
makes four servings Mashed and sweetened sweet potato is the base for these slightly savory waffles. These work for breakfast or brunch or really any meal, they’re that good. Add buttermilk, cheddar, and finely chopped chives to a basic waffle recipe and stick them in a waffle maker. Take it easy when you’re pouring,…
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a brief history of fondant
Fondant is a sugar paste that can either be poured or rolled. Rolled fondant is much more common. I made these carrots by kneading orange and green gel food coloring into white fondant, softening it with the warmth from my hands and then rolling it into the appropriate shape. I try to refrain from…
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double chocolate bundt cake with ganache
makes eight servings When I say I’m not a chocolate person, what I mean is I’m not a milk chocolate person. This is the stuff I like. This is the real stuff. Bittersweet chocolate and dutch-process cocoa powder accentuated with strong coffee and buttermilk, doused in thick ganache. adapted from food and wine Ingredients 5 oz bittersweet…
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buttermilk pie
makes eight servings I’m sick of fruit pies. I know it’s summer and I’m supposed to be using local-seasonal-organic-farm-to-table ingredients, but when I opened the fridge and saw a box of blueberries and a bottle of buttermilk, I had to go with the latter. Ninety percent of the time when a recipe calls for buttermilk,…
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