Blog Posts on sweets for my sweets
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Neiman Marcus (oatmeal-chocolate-chip) cookies by baby rambutan on May 3, 2012it’s taking me days to write up this recipe! which is totally unfair since these cookies are so luscious that they deserve close scrutiny, boisterous fanfare…and immediate sharing of the recipe. selfish withholding of the recipe might inc...
creme brulee and crema catalana by baby rambutan on Apr 30, 2012cracking the caramel crust, oooh. dear husband gave me a mini blowtorch many many Christmases ago…the box got shelved under the “pending” file, and got buried by life’s busy schedules…and he didn’t get pestered eno...
red velvet cake, take two? by baby rambutan on Feb 26, 2012i wanted to have another go at red velvet cake. trying to recall any distinct flavor memory from that first time, well, i couldn’t. it was featured as the “cover girl” (she does kind of look like a girly kind of cake doesn’t s...
Meyer-lemon-curd cheesecake by baby rambutan on Jan 22, 2012do i have a cheesecake problem! the problem is, i crave it very strongly and painfully, but i know that i can’t eat very much of it. another problem: cream cheese is horrendously expensive now! gone are the days when you could get one bar for j...
welcome 2012! by baby rambutan on Jan 12, 2012yey, we made it to another year . i’ve recovered from all that holiday-ing, and once more my resolution about that is to start out earlier. we’ll just have to wait and see. i always am so full of hope . i’ve been cooking a lot, A LO...
decadent cocoa cake by baby rambutan on Dec 3, 2011i haven’t baked a layer cake in such a long time, so long! that my family asked me, “what’s the occasion?!” when i set this plump and dark and fragrant cocoa cake in front of them. after a dinner of IKEA meatballs, roast finge...
birthday cupcakes 2011 by baby rambutan on Nov 14, 2011my two younger kids are five years apart but their birthdays are within 11 days of each other. that means cakes: birthday cakes, cupcakes, cheesecakes, ice cream cakes…whatever their hearts desire. after all they wait and wait all year for this...
after first-day-of-school snack treats: marshmallow clouds by baby rambutan on Sep 7, 2011something chocolate, i thought, to soothe my 6th grader’s ambivalent feelings about the first day of school. he’s been requesting these, for the longest time, and it was really weighing on my mind. i never want to recycle old posts! i swe...
gluten-free caveman cookies by baby rambutan on Aug 12, 2011so, who would eat healthy cookies? i mean, it’s a contradiction in terms isn’t it–a healthy cookie? when someone says that, a cookie that’s good for you, i automatically turn on my skeptic button that goes, beep beep beep, sys...
summer=strawberries! by baby rambutan on Jul 21, 2011i’ve been eating them straight out of the box, washed of course, but i think they’d be just wonderful with cakes and whipped cream…not that i have the go-ahead from the doctors or nurses or nutritionists but i would really really go...
