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  • dark chocolate clementine cake

    dark chocolate clementine cake

    clementines offer a brightness matched by few other types of winter produce. beets are earthy and evasive; radishes are spicy and curt; grapefruit packs a punch, but its bitter aftertaste offsets its initial sunniness. january’s gloomy nights, often solely illuminated by dull moonlight on dirty snow, parallel this cake’s dense chocolate sponge and thick, dark ganache. solace arrives in the form…

  • 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…