Cakes and Pies

From appetizers to desserts, explore our curated collection of tested recipes

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Food & Film: Alice’s Restaurant

Days Of Yore This will be a different Thanksgiving dinner for many of us. We usually host a mid afternoon...

stale bread

Ingredients: Where Has All The Flour Gone for bread

Bidets, Baubles, Ballet And Bread In Italy, it was pasta and rice, in the UK it was tea and then...

almond cake big shot

Ingredients: Almond Essence From Grasse

Sweet Vs. Bitter I wrote earlier about the essences from Grasse, France, which we used to carry at La Cuisine....

Chocolate Nemesis in all its naked glory

A KD Reader Valentine: Chocolate Nemesis

Not Your Chocolate Covered Strawberry Now is not the time for a low-fat yogurt  dessert.  Now is the time to...

Maida Heatters Lemon Buttermilk Cake in KD kitchen

Recipe: Lemon Buttermilk Cake

Resoundingly Lemon Naturally You must know how much we revere the recipes from Maida Heatter at Kitchen Detail, and this...

Bonus Recipe: Fig Tart French Style

Fig Tart Of My Dreams Tarte Aux Figues Georgette may be your secret weapon for fall desserts, as it will...

rolling strudel dough according to Cathy Barrow

Book Report: I Strudel With Cathy Barrow & When Pies Fly

Prime Time With Flying Pies I have never moderated anything. Not even moderation.  So it was not without trepidation that...

Juicy Post: The Fruitcake Crusade

Fruitcake Is Your Friend My mother-in-law made heavenly fruitcake.  Stephanie Gorenflo, our baking Cuisinette extraordinaire, made a divine one too....

tarte tropezienne cropped from Mes Inspirations Culinaires

Juicy Post: Tarte Tropézienne

Blame It On Brigitte We were traveling through the south of France when my husband fell in love with this...

close up of biscuit de savoie with caramel chocolate ganache

Recipe: Biscuit De Savoie with Chocolate Caramel Ganache

Biscuit de Savoie is a centuries old cake recipe and its roots are indeed from a pastry chef in the...