This cake is super-delicious and so incredibly moist! I don’t usually like banana-flavoured anything, but this cake is virtually the sole exception, probably because it uses actual bananas and not that horrific artificial banana flavouring. *bleaugh* That chemical banana garbage should be thrown into the sea, but that would be cruel to marine life.When I…
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Recipe and Tutorial: Espresso Chocolate Almond Biscotti
A confession: I’m a huge lover of soft, almost gooey cookies; for example, I love biting into a soft, super chocolatey, chocolate chip cookie, and letting the aromas and flavours of good quality chocolate and vanilla roll around on my tongue. How could people not love the intense flavour melding with a gooey cookie? In…
TravelScapes: Christmas in Missouri
Let’s take a trip in the Way Back Machine (not to be confused with a Hot Tub Time Machine), and let me tell you about my vacation in Missouri over the Christmas holidays of 2001. I had decided to come home and go back to college full time after bumming around on walkabout for 5…
Recipe and Tutorial: Chocolate Hazelnut Toffee Biscotti
Hoo boy! I am giving you the recipe for one of the most delicious cookies in my arsenal! …hmmm, arsenal….why does that word look so RUDE? I don’t want to talk about cookies in my arsenal….I think I need food. My mind wanders when it’s hungry. Back to the point! Yes, these biscotti are frelling…
Recipe and Tutorial: Gingerbread Biscotti
I have a regular customer who loves loves LOVES my gingerbread biscotti! While he is Croatian, he has a poker party nearly every weekend, and his fellow players are mostly Italian…and Italians know good biscotti, letmetellyou. I am constantly informed of how GOOD these are, and that no matter how many dozen he buys, there…
Recipe: Meyer Lemon Tarts
I had soooo hoped to find the time (and the lemons!!!) to make these Pierre Hermé Meyer Lemon Tarts for my own wedding dessert table back in August of this year, but events conspired against me (damn you, Whole Foods!), and now I am awaiting for Meyer Lemon season to come back around to make…
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