This Cinnamon Hot Chocolate Babka Pie is the ultimate comfort treat. It’s essentially a cinnamon roll-babka hybrid in a pie crust, brought together with a cinnamon chocolate mix that brings a kick of heat from cayenne pepper. Topped with cream cheese frosting, this pie is an impossible to resist combination of cinnamon and chocolate. It’s …
This Nutella Pie lives up to its name. Chocolate and hazelnut is everywhere. Toasted hazelnuts are in the pie crust. There’s a layer of dark chocolate ganache with chunks of hazelnut throughout, and to top it all off, there’s a light mousse-like Nutella filling. Sweet and delicious, this is everything you could ask for in …
Simple and delicious, this Irish Cream Millionaire’s Tart is rich and decadent in all the best ways. With a nutmeg-spiced shortbread crust that’s as buttery and crumbly as one could wish, a chewy Irish cream caramel, and a smooth and soft layer of chocolate ganache, this tart is a total winner. Has anyone else been …
It doesn’t get much better than carbs on carbs with a load of chocolate in between the layers. Maybe that’s not the best way to sell this, so I’ll just give you these two words: Babka Pie. Chocolate & Pistachio Babka Pie to be more exact. With a flaky, buttery pie crust base that’s covered …
With the bittersweet flavor of dark chocolate and the heat and bite of crystallized ginger, these Dark Chocolate & Ginger Biscotti are like a gingerbread cookie all grown-up and dressed with a little bit of extra richness. Easy to make, these are the perfect pairing for a cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa and are …
Rich, moist, and bursting with bright citrus flavor, these Chocolate & Orange Mini Loaf Cakes have just about everything you could ask for in a chocolate cake: soft, light crumb, plenty of chocolate flavor, and a little something extra to amp up the chocolate while also balancing its bittersweet notes. It’s no secret that I …
Chocolate chip cookies are just about as classic as a bake can get. They are just about everywhere you turn. Sometimes, you want to take those classic flavors and fold them into something just a little less common, something that doesn’t try too hard but is worth all the attention that it will get. These …
San Francisco is one of those cities that has somehow become synonymous with Irish Coffee thanks to the Buena Vista and its place in the drink’s origin stories. The real, lesser known tale, tells the story of Joe Sheridan–the bartender who brought Irish Coffee to the Buena Vista–and the passengers of a Pan Am flight that was forced to turn around and land due to bad weather. Cold and tired in Foynes, Ireland, Sheridan was called in to warm the passengers up; he slipped some Irish whiskey into their coffee, topped it off with a pouring cream. When someone asked him if the coffee was Brazilian, Sheridan said, “No, it was Irish coffee!”
In 2012, I was a theater intern in New York. I moved into the city the day before my internship started and lived in an overpriced bedroom with no windows on 10th Ave. One of my favorite things to do was brave the masses in the Theater District and walk past the marquees of shows …