Entries Tagged as ‘Desserts’

May 25, 2008

Little Black Dress of Cakes

I have five words for you: strawberry white chocolate buttermilk cake.
Is there really anything more to say? Well, maybe two more words: whipped cream.
I was tempted to call this “strawberry shortcake” — it looks like one, right? — but I would be lying. Technically, a shortcake is more like a biscuit or scone, [...]

May 13, 2008

Thrown Together

I often think about what it must have been like to grow up in my dad’s house when he was a kid. By all accounts, there were always homemade baked goods on the counter. Always. His grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant and known to everyone as Gram, lived with him growing up and, well, although I know [...]

March 21, 2008

Patience is a Virtue

Ah, patience. Laboratory chemists, kindergarten teachers, intergovernmental negotiators, driving instructors: these are people with borderline freakish levels of patience. But for some of us, patience can be an elusive trait. The idea of waiting and working — politely and diligently — with few immediate results seems far too tortuous.
But if you want [...]