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Tag Archives: cake
Favorite Things: A smaller, taller cake pan
While few things say a party, or a birthday, like a layer cake, the ones we always made at home came out on the short and stocky side. I thought the issue was that the cake just didn’t rise like … Continue reading
Posted in Favorite Things
Tagged cake, cake pans, chocolate, chocolate cake, favorite things, Valentine's Day
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Chocolate Glazed Pumpkin Cakes, and a little song too
For every occasion, there is a song. And if there isn’t a song, I will make one up. My repertoire of tunes-by-Maureen is limited to the a capella (no instruments), and those ditties are typically sung for children. You could … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged cake, Dessert, pumpkin cake, pumpkin puree, pumpkins
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Ingredient: Pumpkins
Until I moved up north, the edible pumpkin was not at all on my radar. In Chicago, the effort to procure, lug home, and carve or just front-stoop a pumpkin happened infrequently. I remember pumpkin-ing in the first year or … Continue reading
Iced Brown Butter Pound Cake, dreamy good
Of all of the possible culinary meccas to explore during my time in San Francisco, the Ferry Market was the one I frequented the most. Every Saturday morning without fail during the year I lived in the city, I headed … Continue reading
Posted in Stories and Recipes
Tagged Brown butter, Brown butter cake, cake, Dessert, paper bakeware
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Technique: How to brown butter
If I could write a single culinary aria and sing it all the rest of my days, that love song would be to brown butter. It’s a bold statement, given the many contenders that are deserving of such devotion. It’s … Continue reading
Favorite Things: Paper Bakeware
There are many reasons why paper bakeware is one of my favorite things, the first of those being that it is the darling of the pastry shop. The pros bake in paper so that they can give us our cakes … Continue reading
Postcard from Chicago
I raised to my lips a spoonful of the cake . . . a shudder ran through my whole body and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place. ~ Marcel Proust (Bittersweet bakery, my Chicago favorite. … Continue reading
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