Messy adventures in the modern kitchen
Sometimes you just need a cake fast. This simple No-Bake Strawberry Cake is an old favorite from grandma’s kitchen — and once you try it, you’ll see why! All you need is four store-bought ingredients and about 10 minutes to whip up a sweet delight that looks almost as good […]
Marriage doesn’t always last, but the memory of a great dessert never fades. Thirty-five years after their divorce, my dad still talks about my mom’s chocolate brownies with an intense passion (which I think bothers my stepmother just a little bit). In 1969 just before my parents married, my dad […]
I love halvah as much as the next Jewish girl. But those thick blocks of sesame candy are usually packed with sugar. That’s why we were delighted to find this amazing No Bake Salted Tahini Cookie Dough Fudge recipe from Ambitious Kitchen. It uses only 2 tablespoons of maple syrup as a sweetener …
I have a galette story, and it involves Jonathan Gold screaming. How many people can say that? So, it’s not technically my galette story, but someone I know was there (and in my book that counts). A few years ago a very talented pastry chef I admire was judging the […]
Crushed gingersnap cookies and homemade vanilla whipped cream, layered with fresh raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and cherries … this is a dessert to rival fireworks.
Whether you call them Bomb pops, Rocket pops or Firecrackers, these patriotic popsicles make for some very sweet summertime memories: the faint chime of the ice cream truck, lips stained a happy raspberry blue for hours. The original red, white and blue rocket-shaped “Bomb pop” first hit supermarket shelves nearly […]
Fruit leather makes for happy, sticky memories: The day you had fruit leather in your lunchbox was a day to celebrate indeed! Giggling over boys and fart jokes on the schoolyard was just so much sweeter with a fruit roll up “thumbsicle” to gnaw on. This simple recipe for homemade […]
Some people have a soft spot for sweets; others lean on liquor. In my grandma’s kitchen, you didn’t have to choose. The recipe for Grandma Sarah’s “Butter Pecan Whiskey Cookies” is a bite of bittersweet family history. I found it by accident, scribbled on the back of an old, voided […]
The banana sandwich is to Americans what Marmite is to the Brits: either you love it, or it the very idea makes you want to hide. If you happen to live North of the Mason-Dixon line it’s very possible that you’ve never even heard of it. But even if the […]
Milk, breakups, thinking real hard … some things just go well with cookies. So when my son came home from a particularly trying day at school last week, begging to “bake something” with me, our path through the pantry was clear. Cookies are, in my mind, the purest of guilty […]