After a lifetime of trying countless recipes for chocolate cake and chocolate icing, I've settled on the two recipes below. This makes the quintessential birthday cake, often requested. The cake recipe is adapted from Dr. Peggy Polaneczky's The Blog That Ate Manhattan, and came … [Read more...]
Fresh Ginger Cake
From David Lebovitz's Ready for Dessert (2010). David says this is his most renowned dessert. That's quite a tribute. I love this cake, and Claudia Fleming's Stout Ginger Cake and just plain Gingerbread. Any of the three would be wonderful with … [Read more...]
Stout Ginger Cake
From Margaret Polaneczky, MD, The Blog That Ate Manhattan. Claudia Fleming, former pastry chef at Gramercy Tavern, wrote in Gourmet's October 2001 issue that the moist dark fragrant gingerbread paid tribute to Dona Abramson and Stuart Tarabour at the … [Read more...]
Twin Towers Comfort Cake
Everyone who tries this cake loves it. I found the recipe in Gourmet magazine's first issue after 9/11, included in Ruth Reichl's Letter from the Editor. …Like just about everything else in this new life we're all leading, it happened in the aftermath of the Twin Towers … [Read more...]
Sticky Buns
From Brother Juniper's Bread Book (1991) by Peter Reinhart. These are the best sticky buns in the world. When Rob was a tyke, he called them "Stinky Buns." Sticky Buns are made with a soft sweet oil and buttermilk dough. The oil and buttermilk give the dough a pastrylike … [Read more...]