I must confess that this entry in the weekly baking series had me a little nervous, and I even considered lying by omission with respect to one of the key ingredients when I brought it into work on Monday. I mean, I’m a massive fan of the lowly parsnip and consider it utterly inoffensive, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cream cheese’
Don’t Underestimate Your Audience
Posted in Breakfast, Celebrations, Desserts, Signature Dishes, Snacks, Sunday Night Baking, tagged cake, carrot cake, carrots, cream cheese, muffins, parsnip, spice on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Apotheosis of the Forgotten Banana
Posted in Celebrations, Desserts, Sunday Night Baking, tagged banana, buttermilk, cake, cream cheese, dulce de leche on August 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite workday lunches is ice-cold fruit salad, obtained from a sidewalk food truck near my soon-to-be-ex office. It’s quick, healthy, delicious, and during the summer, an embarrasingly cheap source of super-ripe, ready-peeled pineapple and mangoes. There is also a small dividend in going this route: much as you would get a complimentary [...]
Buzz Buzz Buzz
Posted in Desserts, Sunday Night Baking, tagged chocolate, cream cheese, honey on August 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Honey is my favorite souvenir purchase when I travel, because it’s easy to obtain, rarely ridiculously priced, takes up little luggage space, and keeps well when I get it home. More compellingly, each one will taste so clearly and uniquely of its place that it will be like being there again. This is why [...]
The Return of Sunday Sweets Blogging: Pumpkin Spice Cake with Dulce de Leche Frosting
Posted in Sunday Night Baking, tagged cake, cream cheese, dulce de leche, pumpkin, spice on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While my blogging schedule has suffered a massive lapse, I didn’t give up my habit of baking on Sunday evening and bringing the results into work on Monday morning.
Appropriately for the season, last Sunday’s baking effort was a pumpkin sheet cake, iced with a quick caramel buttercream made with a cup of dulce de [...]
Pie? Meh, but Cupcakes I Can Get Behind.
Posted in Celebrations, Desserts, tagged cream cheese, cupcakes, honey, mascarpone, pumpkin, spice on November 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
We never had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving when I was growing up. While my mother adopted Thanksgiving with a vengeance when she first discovered it as an immigrant, her nearly-wholesale appropriation stopped short of the dessert course. She never cared for pumpkin pie, probably because she dislikes cloves and allspice, so we usually had some [...]
