I had riches in the refrigerator, extra puff pastry left over from dinner on New Year’s day. Too good to go to waste, this all-butter puff was made by Dufour Pastry Kitchens in New York, and my not-so-local fancy food store had stocked it for the holidays. I’ve read rave reviews about Dufour’s puff pastry…
Tag: Desserts
Ring of Coconut Fudge Cake
Someone special had a birthday recently. Like every year, I asked him what kind of cake he’d like. Every year, he says he wants this one. This year, to my surprise, the onery cuss he said make anything chocolate, not specifying this cake. So of course I made this cake, like every year. Because it’s that…
Pumpkin Brownies
If you had a chance to shop for chrysanthemums with a chihuahua riding shotgun in a flower pot, wouldn’t you do it? I did. It’s fun. And if you could dig into a luscious pumpkin brownie crowned with orange-flavored cream cheese frosting, wouldn’t you do that? You should. It’s delicious. That’s not such a stretch…
Pumpkin Pie Follies at the Arkansas State Fair
Some of the nicest people I’ve ever met were my competitors at the First Lady’s Pie Contest at the Arkansas State Fair. They greeted me with smiles, they tried to help me, and then they trounced me. I can’t even trash-talk their pies, because contestants got small tastes of everyone’s entries after the governor’s wife…
We call these Seven Layers at my house…
…because we can’t count. There’s a layer of salted, buttery graham cracker crumbs (one); and a layer of coconut mixed with chocolate chips (two), all glued together with sweetened condensed milk that bakes to a chewy gold on the edges. The condensed milk melds with everything else so it can hardly be classified as another…
Cookbook Wall 