The Ghost of Christmas Cheesecake
Most grappling with Christmas leftovers involves turkey. But what about all these bits of sweet morsels that inevitably end up kicking about your fridge and ... Read more
Most grappling with Christmas leftovers involves turkey. But what about all these bits of sweet morsels that inevitably end up kicking about your fridge and ... Read more
After last night's gorgeous revelries, I woke up full of a strange certainty: I wanted to make bread. Christmas was full of sweet extravagance: tarts, ... Read more
I was perusing Wikipedia's listing of various cake types and was troubled - troubled! - by the sheer number of cakes I either hadn't made ... Read more
Perusing the slowly expanding archives of this blog it's becoming quite obvious to me that: a) I'm obsessed with baking green things and b) I ... Read more
When the cold and dark days of English autumn creep in, all my baking efforts seem to turn naturally to fragrant spices: cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, ... Read more
I'd not made choux pastry in such a long time that when I casually attempted to make gougeres the other night I failed spectacularly. I ... Read more
I can't remember on what marvelous blog I stumbled across this recipe. Despite its simplicity, it yields - in my opinion - some of the ... Read more
Here's a phrase to sum up this day and age: the Dalai Lama is on Twitter. You can follow him today and have daily nuggets ... Read more
Once you've grasped the idea behind a classic recipe, the temptation to play around with it begins to creep in. This was the case of ... Read more
My recent obsessions: gelatine, any involving fresh berries, and Rose Levy Beranbaum, the god-like (to us bakers) author of "The Cake Bible". All three somehow combined in ... Read more