Do you like that rich flavor only chocolate can bring? I’m not talking about a slight richness, I’m talking about a richness so rich you can’t eat more than 2 squares at a time. I am a self proclaimed chocoholic and even I could not handle more than 1 piece of Giada’s Cinnamon-Chocolate Fudge. The recipe was super easy. Coat an 8×8 pan with butter and line with parchment paper. Stir together condensed milk, cinnamon and vanilla. Add in some chocolate chips and butter and then melt in a double boiler. Once melted, pour into the pan, sprinkle with some salt and refrigerate for at least 2 hours until hardened.
This week is restaurant week in New York. Every year I look forward to this 2 week period, although now it seems like it goes on for more like 2 months, as a chance to try out some of New York’s finest. Unfortunately, this year every restaurant I was excited for seemed to already be booked up, but since we were already in the mood for a great meal we had to pay up to go somewhere which wasn’t participating in restaurant week. (more…)
This weekend I had a chance to go the famous Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Gallerie in New York. The cafe is known to be one of the best Austrian Cafes in the city and it didn’t disappoint!
We got to enjoy 1 an Apfelstrudel, or Apple strudel and a Wiener Mélange (Espresso with steamed milk and foam).
Just made these great cookies from Giada on Food Network. The full recipe can be found here. The cookies are made from butter, sugar, an egg, vanilla and almond extract, cinnamon, dried cherries and toasted almonds. I followed the recipe exactly, but decided to skip the icing since the cookies seemed sweet enough to me between the dried cherries, vanilla extract, and almond extract.
Definitely not a diet item due to the full stick of butter for approximately 24 cookies, but worth every calorie!
Check them out when you’re looking for an alternative to chocolate cookies!
Don’t these just make you want to bundle up with your cutie? I love how the cookies are placed on the sugar like snow! They simultaneously make me want to sit by the fireplace and go out to holiday parties!
Something about the holiday time always makes me think of chocolate tarts. Maybe it’s the buttery, sweet crust. Maybe it’s the melt in your mouth chocolatey richness, but when I heard my family was going to come visit today, I just knew this has to be the dessert. (more…)
Just made these pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving tomorrow and let me tell you, they are the softest cookies ever (and delicious too)!! My husband hates pumpkin and usually refuses to eat anything with it, but even he couldn’t resist these! I originally saw these cookies on sporkorfoon.com and at the time ran out to buy some canned pumpkin, but didn’t get a chance to make them until tonight. And how appropriate since I can bring them to the feast tomorrow!
Whether you like pumpkin or not, you’ve got to try these! (more…)
This past weekend I got a chance to try a recipe I’ve been eye-ing for a while. It’s called Breakfast pizza, but honestly, it could be called Dessert Pizza as well. It was delicious!
I modified one of Giada De Laurentiis recipes that I saw on Food Network a while back. The pizza is made up of store bought pizza dough with some cinnamon sugar sprinkled on top, the “sauce “is mascarpone cheese, a little heavy cream and some lemon juice and zest, and then the topping is a whole lot of berries. I didn’t originally like the “sauce” but after adding a bit of honey and some vanilla extract, it was great. I’ve never worked with pizza dough before and found it a bit tricky. The recipe called to roll out the dough, however, it seemed like no matter how I rolled, the dough always shrank back. So in the end my pizza may have been much smaller than it was supposed to be, which made it so the original ingredient list seemed to be much too much. I would up almost half-ing it.
Do you like that rich flavor only chocolate can bring? I’m not talking about a slight richness, I’m talking about a richness so rich you can’t eat more than 2 squares at a time. I am a self proclaimed chocoholic and even I could not handle more than 1 piece of Giada’s Cinnamon-Chocolate Fudge. The recipe was super easy. Coat an 8×8 pan with butter and line with parchment paper. Stir together condensed milk, cinnamon and vanilla. Add in some chocolate chips and butter and then melt in a double boiler. Once melted, pour into the pan, sprinkle with some salt and refrigerate for at least 2 hours until hardened.
