Category: chocolate

Vanilla and Chocolate Coconut Almond Macaroons

05 April 2012

If you live in New York long enough, you will most likely eventually get the honor of being invited to attend a seder for Jewish Passover.  Because the holiday requires that nothing is cooked with leavening, you will also almost always be offered a very traditional and very delicious dessert: coconut macaroons. People tend to […]

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Chocolate Pot de Creme

10 February 2011

When I was a little girl, my mom would serve us pot de creme only once or twice a year, and we could not wait to have it.  Her presentation was so elegant.  We received our pots in lusterous ivory china demi-tasse cups and served with real silver demi-tasse spoons.  I felt like a princess. […]

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Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Tea Cakes

25 January 2010

Cover these babies with a marshmallow frosting and they’d be Elvis’s favorite cupcake. As they are- as they were, I should say, as we ate every bit of these up- my morning cooking class whipped up a rich and comforting treat. Nothing much needs to be said about these. The name speaks for itself. There […]

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Chocolate Salami

04 December 2009

A special visitor came to our cooking class this week. My Brazilian friend Roberta’s mama was in town and offered to swing by and teach the children to make a Christmas treat. Sonia has a catering business of her own back in Sao Paulo, teaches within a program that helps low income teenagers become skilled […]

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Hairy Eyeballs (a.k.a. Vegan Chocolate Brownies Bites

30 October 2009

These vegan brownie bites are a clear example of how the way in which you describe a food affecting the way a food is received. Some of you maybe thinking, “Vegan brownies?” Yick. Go further: Raw brownies? How does that sound? Maybe yum, maybe not so much. If you tell your kids that these are […]

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