by Suzi | Oct 20, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Have you ever wanted that classic white cake of your childhood? Very white? Very vanilla? With a great chocolate frosting? Oh, you may not even know quite what I’m talking about. Your age needs to have a first digit that is bigger than 3, because I’m talking about a...
by Suzi | Oct 8, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
This is a two-part blog. In a week, I’ll describe the perfect cake. Perfect. Rich, eggy vanilla layers with a devastating chocolate buttercream frosting. It’s the cake of your dreams. But to get the cake, you need to make a couple of what are called “baking...
by Suzi | Aug 22, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews
Yesterday’s post for Double Chocolate Brownies suggested adding ice cream. Here is what we serve at Cooking by the Book: a rich, bourbon spiked vanilla treat. This recipe follows the classic technique of carefully making custard. The steps here are well described and...
by Brian | Apr 26, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews
Down the road from us is lady with a yard filled with chickens running around and laying eggs. The egg shells come in rainbow colors — almost like Easter eggs without the artificial dye. Inside, each egg is radiant with an intensely orange yolk and lovely white that...
