Perhaps the most famous Italian almond cake recipe is the torta caprese, named after the beautiful Adriatic isle of Capri. About This Recipe This flourless gluten-free chocolate almond cake is traditionally made with equal portions of butter, sugar, and almond meal. It is lightened with egg whites, creating a fudgy and moist – yet surprisingly … Read more
We love the combination of chocolate, cherry, and almond flavors. This chocolate cherry cookies recipe delivers all three. A crunchy, buttery, shortbread dough envelops all these flavors. This cookie recipe relies on maraschino cherry for an almondy-cherry flavor. With cheery red flecks, this easy recipe is perfect for the holiday season, valentine’s day, or really … Read more
Most pancake recipes call for buttermilk to give them a tender texture. But, most people don’t keep buttermilk lying around their refrigerator. A can of evaporated milk, however, lasts forever. Many of us, whether we know it or not, have one rattling around the back of their cabinet. What is Evaporated Milk? Evaporated milk is … Read more
Are you like us? Do you spend every day pondering different cookie varieties? Are you scooping cookies in your dreams? In that case, you definitely deserve (and need!) the best cookie scoops around. Why Do I Need a Cookie Scoop? Emerson is often quoted as having said “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”. … Read more
Everyone has a favorite food that they remember from their childhood. One of our favorites were Haribo liquorice allsorts. We bought them with purloined change from the candy store around the store from our school. The (very smart) shopkeeper sold individual pieces of candy for 1 cent apiece and made a (very small) fortune. For … Read more
This is a very traditional German cake recipe, with a classic flavor combination of apples and almonds. This almond apple kuchen is made with almond paste, which gives it a very moist and tender crumb. About This Almond Apple Kuchen Recipe This almond apple kuchen recipe is adapted from Luisa Weiss’s marvelous Classic German Baking … Read more
We like to cook up big vats of oatmeal on weekday mornings, which means that we often end up with extra oatmeal. We hate wasting food, and these leftover oatmeal cookies are a great way to use up anything left at the bottom of the pot. Who invented this recipe? There’s no written record of … Read more
This is the first lucky chocolate rolled cake recipe we have ever found. This cake rolled without sticking together or splitting! Hooray! Rolled Cakes…ARGH!!!! We have historically not had the best luck with chocolate cake roll recipes. They seem a bit more finicky than their vanilla counterparts and we have often resorted to turning shredded … Read more
We make our brown sugar cookies with no butter, since the oil gives them a soft, chewy texture. These easy drop cookies get dusted with white sugar (because, really, is there such a thing as too much sugar?) for some extra crunch and sparkle. What is Brown Sugar? Brown sugar is simply white sugar mixed … Read more
This white chocolate raspberry cookies recipe is the perfect combination of sweet and sour. These cookies use a traditional chocolate chip cookie base, but replace the dark chocolate chips with raspberries and white chocolate chunks. The super sweet white chocolate chips are perfectly balanced by the tangy raspberry pieces. A Short History of White Chocolate … Read more