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Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake

Posted by jenny on 03/27/2011
Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake

Daring Bakers out of a toaster oven was proving to be interesting.


Beer Bread

Posted by jenny on 10/13/2010
Beer Bread

Earlier this year I borrowed a copy of Ruth Levy Beranbaum's The Bread Bible from the library and culled through it for recipes I wanted to try. Rather than buy every book I want, I'd rather borrow, try a few recipes, and then decide if it's something I need to add to our (ample) cookbook library. One of the early recipes I'd settled on was a beer bread. I'm a big fan of pumpernickel bread and while this recipe didn't have some of those familiar pumpernickel ingredients, I thought it might be a good weekday-night substitute. The trick was in finding a flavorful enough beer to use.


Italian Creme Cake

Posted by jenny on 08/10/2010
Italian Creme Cake

Over the years, I’ve been known to rummage through used book bins in search of out-of-print gems. I’ve got some victory garden cookbooks, and plenty examples of ‘modern cooking’ books that proclaim the wonders of microwavery and a balanced meal of meat and potatoes. I especially enjoy finding old regional collections – usually from ladies’ clubs, rotaries, churches – when they’re the genuine article and not just simple reprints of the box recipes from Kraft products.


Tropical Carrot Cake

Posted by jenny on 06/09/2010
Tropical Carrot Cake

When my friend Sarah wrote that she was looking for a good carrot cake recipe, it occurred to me that I don't really have one in my repertoire. My family was never big on carrot cakes, so I never got one passed down from Granny or any of my baking aunts. But not wanting to let Sarah down, I went on a hunt for something a little different. I figured everyone had a standard carrot cake recipe, but I wanted to find something that I hoped would make that wedding cake she's working on a real showpiece.


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