This warm chocolate cake, or moelleux au chocolate, is David Lebovitz’s dessert of choice in his “old faithful” French bistro Astier in Paris. This chocolate cake…
Cooking the sugar syrup in the style of the Italian meringue has always been a challenge for me. It’s no exception this time for one of…
Chocolate/ classics/ Cream/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ featured/ kitchen hack/ Other Sweets/ winter
Chocolate Yule Log / Bûche de Noël
Bûche de Noël is not a cake I would choose to bake on my own. It seems daunting. On the other hand, who can resist…
A List of Eric Ripert’s Recipes Listing all of Eric Ripert’s recipes I’ve explored in the last six months (April to September 2018) in one summary…
Chocolate/ convection steam/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Gluten free
Bitter Chocolate Soufflé Cake | Eric Ripert
This recipe comes from Eric Ripert’s Le Bernardin Cookbook. This is how Eric describes the bitter chocolate soufflé cake: “We used to have a captain who…
Chocolate/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ Other Sweets/ pastry/ whole grain
Buckwheat Madeleines | My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz
When it comes to buckwheat anything, I’ll make it first; ask questions later. Although the name may imply, buckwheat is not a form of wheat. It…
Chocolate/ Cream/ Dairy free/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ Low fat/ Nut/ whole wheat
Paris-Paris | Whole-Wheat Èclairs with Hazelnut Non-Dairy Cream and Chocolate Glaze
This looks like an everyday pastry. But there is quite a bit of work involved. You have to make the éclair shells and the hazelnut praline…
A hot chocolate is my preferred drink at the ski lodge when I desperately needed to warm up my freezing fingers and toes from the…
This is a last-minute holiday cooking inspired by Ina Garten’s video on chocolate truffles. She rolled balls of chocolate ganache over a bed of hazelnuts. I…
This Yotam Ottolenghi’s flourless chocolate teacakes from his new book Sweet call for dark chocolate with 70% cocoa solids. What is it? In general, the higher…
Chocolate/ Levain & Yeast Hybrid/ modernist/ my favorites
Chocolate Cherry Sourdough Bread in “Modernist Bread”
The chocolate cherry sourdough bread recipe is published in the New York Times article, “slicing through the myths to rethink bread.” The article reviews the new…
Chocolate/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ Gluten free
Chocolate Cakes with Dulce de Leche and Fleur de Sel
These individual chocolate cakes with dulce de leche and fleur de sel came out of the oven like earth cakes. I called them earth cakes for…
Chocolate/ Dairy free/ Gluten free/ Healthful Eats/ Heidi Swanson/ Low fat/ Sugar free/ Sweet
Healthful Double Chocolate Cookies – IHCC Food We Love
Talking about food we love is not an easy conversation. It’s complicated. The matter of the heart is never straightforward. Admitting what you love is…
This salted butter caramel-chocolate mousse is rich and decadent. You would surely expect that from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. I made half of the…
Inspired by Blue Hill’s Inspiration of this chocolate bread came from an unlikely source. We were celebrating a milestone birthday for my husband a week…
I adore molten chocolate or lava cakes and have been collecting and saving the recipes. But I have never attempted to make them until now.…
This no-churn recipe makes it possible for me to make ice cream without an ice-cream machine. This is a one-step, no-fuss and foolproof recipe what requires…
Any cakes that are made with buttery almond and chocolate get my attention. To make something resembling the natural stripes of a tiger is surely an…
Fun to eat bouchons with your fingers We know beets; we know chocolate, of course. But what the heck are bouchons? They mean corks, shaped by…
Infused with five-spice powder; topped with star anise Who can resist baking some decadent chocolate cakes on Valentine’s day? Since there is no flour of…
Cream puff dough or pâte à choux paste is one of those coolest preparations and I wonder why I don’t use it more often. The list…