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...]
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...]