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dessert
Elizabeth Belkind’s Nutella babka with hazelnut brittle
Note: At Cake Monkey Bakery, pastry chef and co-owner Elizabeth Belkind makes house-made “Nutella” by combining dark chocolate ganache, pastry cream and pulverized hazelnut brittle.
Cake Monkey: Making a show-stealing babka
Eight years is plenty of time to develop solid products and to know your audience.
Coffee beyond the cup: Java desserts and marinades
Coffee actually started out as a food, not a drink.
Recipe: Baked orange-flavored cheesecake with Indian spices
Cull through this list of common spices for your Valentine\’s Day menu that also may help you spice things up — in other ways — with your Valentine.
Taking a modern approach to Passover desserts
At Passover, because tradition rules, I’m willing to bet that, at most seder tables, undistinguished sponge and honey cake, coconut macaroons and probably some dried fruits cooked into a compote are trotted out at meal’s end, met with no discernable oohs and aahs of rapture from those at the table. Why not bend tradition a bit in the name of making the last course as delectable as the dishes that precede it? Adhering to the albeit fluid rules that proscribe chemical leavening, and flour- and corn-based products, there’s still a whole world of modern and delicious desserts that can grace the Passover table.