Blackberry Jam-Filled Doughnut Bundt Cake
“Did you ever suck the jelly out of a jelly doughnut and then fill it with chocolate swirl ice cream?” Fatso, written by Anne…
Tag: dessert
Angel Food Cake with Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce
There isn’t any rhubarb in California. At least, none that I could find in Los Angeles in June. In Maine, this time of year,…
Bird’s Nest Cupcakes
The egg is a perfect symbol for this season. No matter which occasion you’re baking for, this recipe will suit. Easter? Yes! Passover? Totally!…
Sweet Crepes with Nutella and Bananas
The best crepes I ever had were on the beach in Mexico. Malcolm and I had been living there for about two years, we…
Coconut Lime Semifreddo
Holy crap, this is delicious semifreddo. And it’s ridiculously easy to do. So easy you can make it while you wait on hold to speak with…
Momofuku Cornflake Marshmallow (Chocolate Chip and Oatmeal) Cookies
It’s eighty degrees outside, so brightly sunny I’m sure we’ve living under an ozone hole, and we’re camped inside our apartment, shades drawn, like aging movie stars,…
Parsnip Spice Cake
There’s no need to scoff at parsnip cake, like certain husbands did. It may not have rainbow layers or funfetti or an animated character airbrushed in…
Pumpkin Spice Cake with Rum Raisin Icing
If you’re going to make this cake (and you should), you need some advance warning. Perhaps you’re a better person than I am and…
Chocolate Molasses Cookies
September is delicious. Going back to school was always terrifying and thrilling for me. I loved book reports and music class and all the…
Strawberry Upside Down Cake
Today, in Maine, it is the most spectacular pre-fall day. Fifty-nine degrees, high blue sky. I turned on the heat in the Jeep, rolled…
Wild Blueberry Pudding Cake
Maine wild blueberries are tiny, usually smaller than peas. Violet and I have been eating them by the quart this summer. They are sweet, never…
Chocolate Banana Sour Cream Cupcakes
In high school, on Friday and Saturday nights, we would drive. We would drive from Clinton to Old Saybrook and back. We would stop…
Four-Ingredient Frozen Coconut Mousse
The sandy road into town is lined with ramshackle coconut stands. Hand-painted signage announce their short list of goods: “Pay de Coco” (coconut pie);…
Peaches and Cream Coffee Cake
Four years ago right now, Malcolm and I were driving a rather large moving van from Florida to Maine. First, we had to fly…
Individual Chocolate Souffle Recipe
Even though this decadent chocolate souffle for one was meant to be yours only, the flavor is rich enough to share with a significant…
Raspberry Sweet Rolls
When we were eighteen, my best friend and I started going on summer adventures. We would pack White Lightning, my intrepid Toyota Corolla with…
Black Forest Brownie Trifles
I’ll tell you up front: this isn’t a story about chicken wings. When we were in college, TK’s American Cafe, now long gone, was…
Mexican Chocolate Cake
Once upon a time in Mexico I got married in front of a fountain and a defrocked priest and friends and family, under a…
Cinnamon Ricotta Danish
When we have a houseful of company for the weekend, I love to get up early and bake something yummy for breakfast. This is…
Coconut Drippy Cake
Take my mother-in-law, please. I kid! I am very lucky to have a terrific, fun and lovely mother-in-law; she has been back visiting from…
Homemade Oreo Cookies
Is it possible for a facsimile to be as good as the real thing? What if the source, what you’re copying, is packaged in…
Toasted Almond Blondies
I never got to buy hot lunch. I considered this a great injustice in the third grade, when everyone who was cool got to…