Following requests from readers, here are a few more pictures of the s’mores tart, in all its gooey glory.
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Childhood Favorite Grows Up: S’mores Tart
My s’mores tart incorporates the primary elements of the classic dessert (graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows), but this is no messy, eat-with-your-hands treat. The chocolate acquires a melted consistency in the form of a part-ganache, part-pudding filling that is poured into a graham cracker crust. Marshmallow-y meringue is piped on top, then briefly [...]
Peanut Butter Banana Bread
As good as this bread is fresh from the oven, I like it even better the next day. Wrapped well, you can easily pack a slice for a snack or even send a loaf in the mail; it is sturdy and tastes better with age. If you need a treat, try toasting a slice and [...]
Sweet Potato Cake with Brown Sugar-Cream Cheese Frosting
Sweet potatoes and brown sugar are a perfect match, and that was my inspiration for this recipe. I adapted the cake from Gourmet cookbook’s Fresh Banana Layer Cake recipe, substituting sweet potatoes for the bananas and adding cinnamon to enhance their flavor. The brown sugar element comes into play in the frosting, with [...]
My Almond Poppy-Seed Muffins
One of my favorite things about baking is tinkering with flavors in recipes that I already love. When I was a kid, and if I asked very nicely, my mom would make almond poppy-seed muffins as a special breakfast treat during the week. I got the urge to recreate them after flipping through Dorie [...]
Mini Chocolate-Banana Breads
Sometimes a creation comes about as a result of guilt: in this case, I had two pitiful, overripe bananas that, despite their brown skins, I was loathe to throw away–it just seemed so wasteful. As such, they finally met their fate, mashed and baked into mini versions of Dorie Greenspan’s Coco-Nana Bread. As luck would have [...]
