Orange Lace Cookies

September 18th, 2009  |  35 Comments

They kind of look like potato chips, don’t they? They really are impossibly delicate. Scott saw these all strewn about the table and his immediate urge was to smash them with his fist. Is there something about these that tap into man’s desire to go to war? Against a lace cookie? An easily conquerable foe, […]


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Chocolate Sorbet

September 14th, 2009  |  29 Comments

You’ll probably want to throw tomatoes at me for saying this, but I don’t like frozen chocolate anything. Not chocolate ice cream, not sorbet, not frozen parfait, nuthin’. I’ve always preferred fruit flavors in my freezer. I don’t have a good explanation, but could theoretically defend myself by saying chocolate flavors are best and most […]


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Chocolate Walnut Toffee Bars

September 5th, 2009  |  18 Comments

If there’s one thing that makes ladies forget their manners, it’s free clothes. If there’s another, it’s chocolate. Put them in a room together, and you’ve got yourself an every-woman-for-herself swap party. My friend, Amy, decided to get all us chicks together under one roof to celebrate, oh, just being our great womanly selves. And […]


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One Coconut Cookie, Three Personalities

September 1st, 2009  |  36 Comments

Coconut cookie and strawberry ice cream sandwiches A big gracias to all of you for your stunning influx of comments about the Dobos. It was overwhelming and really made my día, so thank you. You may be asking yourself if this has suddenly become a Spanish blog, what with me sprinkling foreign words around like […]


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Chocolate Dobos Torte and the Daring Bakers

August 26th, 2009  |  61 Comments

As much as I like to think that I know everything about pastry, the truth is that I only know a small percentage. The amount of available info is bigger than all the sugar crystals in the world. As we speak, delightfully batty pastry chefs are out there, stirring up shenanigans that I couldn’t even […]


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