Category: Cake & Cookie
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Sleepless Cookies
When having a bout of insomnia, baking cookies with a loved one makes for a good remedy. It keeps off sleeplessness anxiety, reduces stress, and perhaps even releases endorphins to boost happiness. Where brownie is all about chocolate, what constitutes cookie is infinite. At its most basic, the cookie is a shortbread, containing flour, fat,…
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Brownie
It happened during my first study abroad trip. Passing by a bakery, I saw alluring sprinkles of powdered sugar atop brown squares, stacked neatly on the other side of the window pane. Having been away for a while, I was very excited to get a taste of home, but my excitement was only quickly replaced…
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Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake is a staple dessert – rich, dark, and decadent. Some folks prefer milk chocolate, but if one truly loves chocolate, one wants it dark. It’s akin to the idea that if you eat your steak well-done, you don’t enjoy beef. I personally have my chocolate cake as black as midnight; something like Hershey’s…
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Coffee Cake
Coffee cake is served with coffee, typically sweet and spiced to complement coffee’s strong flavor. Coffee cake is another kind of cake with layers being baked together simultaneously. Unlike the tarte Tatin, a layer of crumb, similar to Germany’s streusel, is spread and baked atop the cake batter. Streusel means sprinkle or strew in German,…
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Rosemary Apple Cake
To give complexity to a cake, whether to contrast or to compliment its flavors and textures, we build dimensions into it. One method is to add layers after the cake is done baking, such as frosting. Another way is to bake separate layers simultaneously. Because layers require different settings to be correctly cooked, the challenge…
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Notes on Cake
In making cakes, size matters. Different baking pans require changes to the original proportion between ingredients, else it may no longer allow for a sufficient rise or may lead to over-leavening, causing the cake to collapse. As Shirley Corriher noted that “a sad cake is a happy cake”, a soft and moist cake, which is…
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Crisp & Spoon Cake
This is just to sayI have eatenthe plumsthat were inthe icebox and whichyou were probablysavingfor breakfast Forgive methey were deliciousso sweetand so cold–William Carlos Williams One can’t not read this poem and not break a smile. It has been countlessly parodied and even inscribed on a wall in the city of Den Hague, Dutch country. …
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