What’d You Do Last Weekend?

I'm sure you still have mint in your garden, so why not try to make your own mint chocolate chip ice cream? Cacao nibs stand-in for chocolate chips in this grown-up version.
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Italian Creme Cake

Posted by jenny on 08/10/2010
Italian Creme Cake

Over the years, I’ve been known to rummage through used book bins in search of out-of-print gems. I’ve got some victory garden cookbooks, and plenty examples of ‘modern cooking’ books that proclaim the wonders of microwavery and a balanced meal of meat and potatoes. I especially enjoy finding old regional collections – usually from ladies’ clubs, rotaries, churches – when they’re the genuine article and not just simple reprints of the box recipes from Kraft products.


Cat and Lindsay's Wedding Cake

Posted by jenny on 08/03/2010
Cat and Lindsay's Wedding Cake

Somehow, despite my anxiety and our frustrations with salty unsalted buttercream, it got done. Cat and Lindsay got hitched and my cake got made. Let me correct that. We spent a beautiful Saturday on Bainbridge Island watching two of our friends revel in love and affection for each other and from everyone else. The cake was really just window dressing to one of the most lovely weddings I've ever attended.


Gateau de Crepes

Posted by jenny on 07/16/2010
Gateau de Crepes

I've only had this once, but the memory of it is like a dream. A cold night in New York, walking the Upper East Side with my best friend Tanarra - searching for a bakery whose name I was unsure of. I'd heard of this cake before - layers of crepes separated by vanilla pastry cream, and I heard this place had them. I think we got the last piece that night.


Tropical Carrot Cake

Posted by jenny on 06/09/2010
Tropical Carrot Cake

When my friend Sarah wrote that she was looking for a good carrot cake recipe, it occurred to me that I don't really have one in my repertoire. My family was never big on carrot cakes, so I never got one passed down from Granny or any of my baking aunts. But not wanting to let Sarah down, I went on a hunt for something a little different. I figured everyone had a standard carrot cake recipe, but I wanted to find something that I hoped would make that wedding cake she's working on a real showpiece.


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