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- The Best Things In Life Are Wee
Psst–I have a confession to make.
Beneath my cranky and occasionally grim exterior beats the tender, kooky heart of a miniatures collector.
My boyfriend and I have just signed the lease on our very first apartment together. I have yet to buy a piece of furniture, but I’ve already begun accumulating the teeny pastries that I plan […]
- Fleur du Mal Cherry-Chocolate Cake
I was going to name this cake after Becky Sharp, the social-climbing heroine of Vanity Fair. It’s Betty Crocker Devil’s Food made good with stiff-peaked egg whites and a slug of kirsch in the batter. Pillows of chantilly-lightened cherry curd, a necklace of sugar pearls and a tiara of red cherries complete the upgrade.
If the […]
- Green Tea Rice Krispie Treats
There is a Chinese snack I grew up eating called sachima. It’s similar to a Rice Krispie treat, but lacks the bracing sweetness of melted marshmallows; it gets its sugar from much mellower rock candy, which has toasty notes of burnt caramel. The doughy bits are larger and airier than Rice Krispie grains, and sesame […]
- Fashion Plates
One of the advantages of painting in chocolate over, say, gouache, is that you can lick your fingers. Hell, you can lick the canvas.
I developed this way of amusing myself on a slow night in the pastry kitchen. There was no call to write “Happy Birthday” on the rim of the few dessert plates […]
