Entenmann's is a ubiquitous part of drugstore and supermarket displays. My all-time favorite item is the All Butter Loaf. The ever-so-soft moistness, the eerily golden brown top, and the loaf ends—so delicious. Here are five simple ways to use the cake as a base for other more exciting and impressive-looking preparations.
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Photograph from J. McPherson on Flickr I go out to eat a lot and one of my favorite things to do in a fancy restaurant is to order the mixed greens salad. It might sound boring but I think...
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The following recipe is from the June 3 edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! If you ask me to choose one country's cuisine to eat for the rest of my...
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Photograph from Svadilfari on Flickr When I see those beautiful crimson and green stalks of rhubarb at the market my first instinct is to pick up an bunch, take it home, and make something with it, but I never...
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They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. I say cream and cream cheese make the heart grow creamier. Sugar makes the heart grow sweeter. Some people have funny valentines, but I have French ones, and this year, I...
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For a recent private party held at the new restaurant where I'm pastry chef, I was asked to make some sort of special little package of goodness for each guest to take home after the party. Because it was to...
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I picked up some strawberries up at the farmer's market and I just couldn't wait to get them home. Real strawberries—the ones that come in early summer—taste so much outlandishly better than what you can find in the grocery store.
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Ever since I first started baking as a child, I've been searching for a recipe for strawberry cupcakes—perfect, pink confections with the sweet flavor of pure sunshine. There are plenty of versions to be found, but most call for frozen...
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I’m about to type a cop-out phrase that I would immediately cut if I were editing someone else’s work: I don’t know if I can find words to express how I feel about strawberry shortcake.
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You know how I urged you to bookmark the previous two Cook the Book recipes for winter? This one you're going to want to bookmark for spring. Sure, it's not strawberry time, but we wanted to highlight produce-aisle citizens from...
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