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Caramel Ganache Roulade

Caramel Ganache Roulade

Often we have roulades during the holidays: a chocolate sponge cake filled with whipped cream, perhaps surrounded with a chocolate glaze. Roulades are far more than holiday food and can be enjoyed year-round in great variety. The cake can be vanilla, as it is here, or...
Choclatique Part 1: Dark Chocolate Ganache

Choclatique Part 1: Dark Chocolate Ganache

Chef and author Ed Engoron has written a very beautiful book Choclatique: 150 Simply Elegant Desserts with a very intriguing concept: make chocolate desserts using different chocolate ganaches instead of chocolate or cocoa directly. His reason, chocolate can be...
Chocolate Macaroon Bars

Chocolate Macaroon Bars

Sometimes even I can tire of a simple brownie. I want that chocolate high but still something different. But not too different. Oh, dear, I’m over the edge. I need my caffeine. Now. Which is why this particular recipe will supply all the caffeine you could possibly...
Chocolate Cake with Caramel Benefits

Chocolate Cake with Caramel Benefits

I am a butter man. I bake with butter. When I see a recipe that uses oil instead of butter, my first reaction is to keep flipping the pages of that cookbook. Why? Well, probably because I like to eat the batter and I love butter but the idea of eating oil … I...