Entries tagged with 'Alice Medrich'
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The following recipe is from the February 13th edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! I was drawn to Alice Medrich's recipe for chestnut torte from Bittersweet because right now I'd...
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This week's Cook the Book is a little different—and sweeter—than most. Usually, we feature one book the entire week, excerpting adapted recipes as the days go by. This week, in honor of Valentine's Day, we've put together a list of...
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And the last of our chocolately, Valentine's Day–appropriate from Cook the Book recipes for the week from Alice Medrich's Chocolate Holidays: Unforgettable Desserts for Every Season uses milk chocolate, for all you folks (like me) who prefer it to dark....
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This rich, moist flourless chocolate cake is sure to please any valentine. Unless he or she hates chocolate. And if that's the case, why don't you go get yourself a new valentine? Be sure to make it at least one...
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The following recipe is from the February 6th edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! Although I love ordering blintzes at restaurants, I've never thought of making them until I read...
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Who doesn't love chocolate truffles? And going through the effort to make your valentine a batch of these treats only sweetens the deal. You can make these with domestic bitter- or semisweet chocolate that doesn't list a percentage on the...
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The first of our Cook the Book recipes this week is for a simple breakfast Valentine that you could bake up for your sweetheart the morning of Valentine's day or for tea later that afternoon. They require a 2 1/2-inch...
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OK, folks, break out your candy thermometers, 'cause you're going to need 'em for this one. These caramels, which come from Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich use whole ground vanilla beans and golden syrup, which makes them extra delicious. If...
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Alice Medrich, author of Pure Dessert, from which this recipe comes, took inspiration for this Italian Chocolate-Almond Torte from Claudia Roden's torta di mandorle e cioccolata in Roden's Book of Jewish Food. The chocolate in this torte is ground, rather...
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Alice Medrich, author of Pure Dessert, from which this recipe comes, advises would-be bakers of this cake not to fear the olive oil in it. The result won't be overly sweet, as you'd imagine. Instead, the oil, sherry, and orange...
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