Dark Chocolate Chip Pavlova with Strawberry Whipped Cream
This has been an exciting week for me! I am so happy to let you know that I am going to write a second cookbook! It will be another book about pies, because you can’t have too much pie I suppose, but this book will be different than the last in that it will focus on gourmet ingredients and high-end flavors. I have a pretty tight deadline for this one but I am confident I can get it all written in time. To celebrate I decided...
Double Dark Chocolate Chunk Coconut Cookies
The last few days have been a roller coaster ride for me. The biggest positive of the week … Everything Pie is written!! Going in I knew writing a book would be a challenge, but it was more difficult than I expected. The rewards of this experience are numerous, but the biggest lessons I take away from it are that I am more dedicated, disciplined, and creative than I ever thought. The big news now is that the publisher has...
Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies
When I have a bad, or stressful day, or when I have an especially good day, I like to treat myself. In the case of this recipe I was having a bad day. It was the last day of a rather bad week, actually and I was in need of something really evil to sooth my nerves. This recipe was inspired by a brownie that I saw in a coffee shop a few months ago. It was a walnut brownie with a walnut chocolate chip cookie baked in the center and it...
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Let’s just get this out of the way. I need cookies. Something about a cookie just makes me feel, when the stress of the season threatens to be my undoing, that everything will be ok, nothing is that bad, and I can cope. My flavor of the moment is chocolate and peanut butter. It is really, really working for me, so I took those flavors and made chewy, moist, deeply chocolate cookies studded with peanut buttery chips. They...
Spiced Dark Chocolate Soufflé
I love things that look difficult but are in fact quite easy. Soufflé is one of those desserts that people assume is terribly difficult to make. I think it goes back to cartoons and movies where someone is making a soufflé that comes out tall and perfect only to have it collapse in spectacular fashion. When I was in culinary school I dreaded soufflé day, knowing that they were so terribly hard to make. I quickly discovered the...
