Chocolate lava cakes (a.k.a. molten cakes or soufflé cakes) proved that fame can be damaging. The liquid-centered cakes, popularized by Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten...
What would the holiday season be without homemade caramels, I ask you? Caramels happened to make an appearance during last year's Sugar Rush. My mom's famous caramels to be exact. But this year I wanted to try a chocolate version
San Francisco chocolatier Michael Recchiuti prepared the gooey marshmallow topping for this exquisite chocolate cake on a porch at Prather Ranch using just a hot plate and a hand-cranked beater. Recchiuti decorated the marshmallow with shards of his own graham crackers, but store-bought ones work just fine.
There's something to be said for a cake that you can whip up at 9 o'clock on a Friday night, after a serious doozy of a week, when you need some baking
We're not very good at making decisions. It took us 3 months to pick out a sofa for our living room. Out kitten Sgt. Pepper was nameless for nearly a week.
So light and moist and chocolaty that it’s pretty much cake in a loaf pan. But calling it bread and putting a vegetable in it makes it sound hip and healthy and appropriate for things other than dessert.
