(anne): marquise au chocolat

a word about myself before i write the rest of this post…i am a morning person…while i do have some of my best creative ideas at night, i tend to do much better at technical things (such as following recipes), before 7pm…it just so happened that i made this dessert in the evening, which means …

(livi): sunday in paris cake

i baked these wonderful smelling sunday in paris chocolate cakes (from dorie greenspan’s “baking chez moi”), during an evening summer rain storm, here in indiana. in fact, i had to close the window because the wind was blowing in at such a rate that it caused the flour to cover my cookbook instead of sifting …

(anne): sunday in paris cake

last week, i made the "sunday in paris chocolate cake" from dorie greenspan's    "baking chez moi".  i chose to make mine in a mini muffin tin. i'll walk you through the process and then walk you through how to fix a broken ganache, because, surprise!, mine broke!!!! ok, so the first thing i did was mix …

(livi): lime tart

i’ve never made a tart before ever. i’ve never eaten a tart before. being raised on a rural farm, something this formal never graced our tables, mainly we enjoyed a simple pie. so since this was a completely foreign recipe for me…i was a bit nervous. but i shouldn’t have been because it is a …