I’m sorry for doing this to you. Except I’m not. One should never apologize for cheesecake. Especially not for this cheesecake. Because this one here, is a pre-Christmas miracle. There is coffee, a lot of it, chocolate, a lot of it, cream cheese, a lot of it, and then because there’s always room for improvement,…
Salted Chocolate Pistachio Cookies
So apparently perfection can be improved upon. As long as salted chocolate and pistachios are around. And as long as we have cookies, things can only get better. I give you, buttery, soft, squidgy cookies studded not with chocolate chips which are so yesterday, but bittersweet salted dark chocolate from Earth Loaf and salted, roasted…
Ricotta Cake with Chunky Blueberry Sauce
This post is about the little things. Appreciating them, respecting them, falling in love with them. Little things like a tiny bit of a innocent lemon zest that can take a basic cake to another realm. Little things like tangy blueberries suddenly turning a regular old loaf cake into something that calls for a smug…
Coconut and Lemongrass Cake
I don’t flip through cookbooks. I pore over them. I make mental notes, stick Post-Its, read them like there’s a miraculous fourth book in the Millenium trilogy. With the humongous collection of recipes available online, blogs to gape at and cooking-related discussion groups of all kinds, it seems like there’s actually no need for cookbooks…
Healthy Chocolate Truffles
So I turned out to be an utter and total fraud. I, who runs screaming from brownies adulterated with walnuts, who balks at the thought of popping whole cashews in my mouth, who does not understand why perfectly good oatmeal cookies must be tortured with the addition of raisins. I, who does all of that, not because…