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Pies, Tarts and Cakes

Alice Waters Apple Tart

Alice Waters’ Apple Tart

November 16, 2011 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

This apple tart has just a few ingredients: butter, flour, sugar, salt, and of course, apples. There’s not any cinnamon, nor indeed spices of any kind at all. You don’t even have to use a pan – we’re talking way simple.

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Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes

Chocolate Truffle Cupcakes

October 11, 2010 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

I am an unabashed cake and frosting lover. These are the moistest, most chocolaty, cocoa-packed cupcakes I’ve ever had, topped with feather-light whipped meringue frosting. In fact, they were so good that I was compelled to bake them twice in three weeks.

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Daring Bakers: Puff Pastry

September 27, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

Puff pastry was far from a disaster, but it was the most physically demanding challenge to date, as I had to push so hard on my rolling pin that the heels of my hands were bruised for two days afterwards. After suffering* thusly, you can bet I would have broken a window or a least eaten some ice cream right out of the carton if the darn stuff hadn’t puffed. But it did puff. #&@%*.

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Black, White, Red, Eaten

September 9, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

I admit, I was hanging on as long as I could. After all, summer never seems to last long enough. And I had to have strawberry shortcake at least once. Chocolate strawberry shortcake, that is.

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Daring Bakers: Dobos Torte

August 27, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

This, dear friends, is a Dobos Torte: layer upon layer of vanilla sponge cake separated by rich chocolate buttercream, then topped with a caramel-covered cake layer and garnished with hazelnuts. And I have the Daring Bakers’ August challenge to thank for it!

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Daring Bakers: Bakewell Tart

June 27, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

The June Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict and Annemarie of Ambrosia and Nectar. They chose a Traditional (UK) Bakewell Tart… er… pudding that was inspired by a rich baking history dating back to the 1800′s in England.

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Salt, Chocolate, Perfection

March 23, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

This tart is Salt and Chocolate nirvana. The salt is all the way through the crust, so you get a good smack of it in every bite. And it’s no dinky chocolate-covered pretzel either; this is big, thick chocolate, not a thin waxy coating. Get the best milk chocolate you can afford, as you’re going to be tasting it.

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Daring Bakers: Flourless Chocolate Cake

February 28, 2009 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

It was time. I couldn’t put it off any more. I became a Daring Baker, a culinary lunatic goddess obsessed with testing a challenging new recipe each month with hundreds of other bakers around the globe. And a three-ingredient flourless chocolate cake should be simple, right? Burghilicious baking hubris, exposed.

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Christmas Morning Coffee Cake

December 26, 2008 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

This coffee cake has been a Christmas tradition in my family for as long as I can remember. It stems, oddly enough, from summer vacation. My step-dad’s family had a cottage in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, where we stayed for a week every summer when I was young. Every year, I could count on a fancy breakfast at the White Gull Inn, where my stepdad ordered buckwheat pancakes, I hoped for an overflowing bowl of fresh berries, and we always shared the coffee cake. At some point, my mom purchased the hotel’s cookbook, and the rest was history.

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Apples, Cake, Caramel, Cream Cheese

November 16, 2008 Pies, Tarts and Cakes

right around Halloween, I was craving a cake that combined apples and caramel but still had a real frosting, preferably cream cheese. Such a recipe did not exist, so I had to make one up. I’ll admit: this is my first-ever original cake recipe. I will also admit that it rocks. Hard-core.

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