This holiday season eats into baking time, but I managed to put together a büche de Noel for a family friend. Even if it seems you’re about to run out of essential ingredients (e.g. decent sheet pan, butter and yes sugar), there will be büche! Here’s the...
While cleaning the kitchen at work, I found a bundt cake mold. It made me think of working years ago in the The Drake Swiss Hotel's bakery, specifically a cake we made called "Marmor Gugelhupf." It's not a yeasted or baking powder cake,...
My brother Philippe asked me if I'd bake a cake for his wedding. As I had baked the cake for his first wedding (and was best man, too) it was a testament to my brother's faith in me. So of course I said "yes." We chose to make it a carrot cake in...
Hankering for pound cake, I made a batch using chocolate chips provided by spice shop master, Lior Lev Sercarz. More specifically, I incorporated his #39 Reims spiced-chocolate. Normally reserved for hot cocoa, below are photos of the quatres quarts au chocolat...
Crave cake? This here torta paradiso lives up to its name; a paradise cake made from butter, sugar, zest of lemon, limoncello and vanilla. It also has a surprising ingredient; potato flour. Which actually is a bit like Latin pastries made with...
