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Classic Chocolate Soufflé Recipe

This recipe for a classic Chocolate Soufflé is one that I practiced many times before learning that I was chosen to cook for Chef Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Chef Aaron Sanchez on MasterChef. If you’re a fan of the show, you’ll know that soufflés show up quite often in challenges. I refused to be […]

Food, Recipes

Easy Lemon Cheesecake with Blackberry and Ginger Spiced Topping

There are few desserts as rich and delicious as cheesecake.  Personally, I prefer cookies, but Piyush–who swears he does not like sweets!–is definitely a “cheesecake man.” In fact, he likes it so much that it’s all he wanted for Christmas.  No presents, just cheesecake.  Heck, that’s easy enough! I first made this particular cheesecake during […]

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The Easiest Chocolate Cake Ever (and it’s Vegan)

I have a “thing” for chocolate. I love everything about it.  It’s smell, it’s taste and–most especially (at the risk of sounding like some sort of chocolate obsessed crazy lady who is in clear need of psychological assistance)–it’s ability to “pick me up” when I’m feeling down. The only thing I might love more than chocolate is […]

Food

Cake-tastrophe Averted! “Building” a Wedding Cake

Have you ever had such high hopes for something, that you don’t even consider the end result will be anything except for everything you ever imagined?   It happens to me a lot.  Especially when I’m decorating cakes.  I get these fabulous ideas, grandiose even, but sometimes when I start working on them…the ideas just don’t […]

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What a Beautiful Baking Day!

I love this crisp weather. It’s absolutely perfect. Unfortunately, the crispness in the air also means that snow will be here sooner than later. That makes me sad. But the snow isn’t here yet, so I’m going to do my best to enjoy autumn as long as I can! I love everything about autumn. I […]