A couple of months ago I wanted to create the perfect chocolate cookie, so I read endless cookie blogs and tried every ratio of flour to sugar, to butter, to chocolate.
The best cake recipes to bake for special occasions
Whether you whisk, cream or mix, a well-baked cake is something to celebrate
12 May 2021 • 3:54pm
Let us all eat cake…
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Cake helped get us through the past year. It wasn’t something you made when you’d invited friends for tea – because nobody was coming for tea – it was just a source of comfort, of sweetness, for the family. Tarts and rice pudding can provide sweetness too, but there’s something about cakes. They’re soft but, unless you’re eating a whisked sponge, which is light and airy, you can get your teeth into them.
Zuppa Inglese (Italian trifle) recipe
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Decadently creamy and rich, this chocolate-laced trifle is powered by a big hit of boozeÂ
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Prep time:Â 20 minutes, plus 2 hours chilling | Cooking time: 15 minutesÂ
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Pour the Alchermes into a bowl. Dip enough of the savoiardi to line the base of a one-litre trifle dish into the liqueur, then layer them in the base of the bowl. Leave the liqueur to one side, ready to dip the rest later.
In a saucepan set over a low heat, gently warm the milk and vanilla pod, bringing it to a gentle simmer.
Novelty is a drug. We love new flavours, new recipes, the unusual, the unfamiliar. But most of us also have a core repertoire of dishes that are as much a part of us as the way we dress. We make them because we love eating them but also because we could turn them out in our sleep.
I do make cakes that require work (layers of genoise, stripes of mousse-like filling, a glossy mirror of glaze on top) but these are project cakes, theyâre not what I slide into the oven on a weekend afternoon. I have what I think of as a âcapsule wardrobeâ of cakes, favourites that can be subtly changed or accessorised.
Pandemic inspires law firm to reissue cookbook
HANNA RASKIN, The Post and Courier
April 18, 2021
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) In online reviews, clients praise personal injury attorney Davis Rice for being “a pit bull” who refuses to settle for less than he thinks workers deserve for falling off a ladder or otherwise getting hurt at work.
None of them, though, mention the quality of his macaroni-and-cheese, topped with buttered breadcrumbs and baked for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
Rice’s recipe was among the breakout hits in the Joye Law Firm’s cookbook, first issued in 2013 and now undergoing an update. Once completed, the e-book detailing how to prepare partner Mark Joye’s ranch dressing, a financial manager’s cherry cookies and the human resources director’s bacon-enhanced Brussels sprouts, among other dishes, will be shared with the 7,000 or so people on the South Carolina firm’s contact list.