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Dessert Recipes

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Paula Deen's Best Diabetic Shortcuts

    It wasn't exactly shocking when butter maven Paula Deen revealed she'd gone and given herself "the Sugars"-- aka type 2 diabetes-- last January. It was a little surprising she sat on the information for over three years and is now a pharmaceutical spokesperson for the drugs to treat the disease, all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Fuji Bakery Arrives at Perfection with a Reauleau Caramel Chocolat

    Yesterday,Fuji Bakery owner Akihiro Nakamura spoke about precision in developing his recipes, and his desire for perfection. Today, he provides a perfected recipe, a chocolate caramel rolled cake, where he shaved away at proportions gram by gram so you don't have to. But note, I did say, "gram." Dus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    The Fearless Baker Will Turn Terrified Bakers Into Fearless Ones.

    Emily Luchetti, herself an accomplished pastry chef, has long wondered why so many home cooks have a fear of baking. Even skilled, confident cooks fear the precision and risk of failure that baking can sometimes present. So, she teamed up with Lisa Weiss, a food writer and coauthor of several chefs' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Eight Months of Eating, 10 Outstanding Dishes

    Culture shock? Here's the last meal I reviewed in Dallas.​Year-end lists are always agonizing. It's not easy pitting a burger against octopus crudo when bestowing "best of" status, or whittling down the candidate list to five, 10 or some other arbitrary number. But the task is especially hard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    The RN74 Gingerbread Cookie Recipe That Turns Adults Into Happy Children

    Kim Mahar is known for her modern and beautiful take on nostalgic desserts at RN74. Having a fine arts degree does that to a chef. She's also constantly questioning what she does in the kitchen, staying curious, which in itself inspires her. What's interesting about Mahar's story is that she just re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    A Very Seattle Thanksgiving: White Chocolate Cheesecake

    Voracious this year asked local food producers to provide their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. We'll run one recipe each day through Nov. 23; if you collect them all, you'll have a complete feast. When Brian Holmquist's great-great grandfather started growing DuChilly hazelnuts in 1928, plenty of o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Fried Chicken and Waffles... Ice Cream

    Ah, chicken & waffles.  Having grown up in Los Angeles, I've made a few late-night pilgrimages to the famed Roscoe's House of Chicken'n Waffles, and every now and then, I get a craving for crispy fried chicken alongside a lightly toasted waffle.  But other times, my desires are a litt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    The Cookie Recipe That Launched a Thousand Cheesecakes

    ​Paul Verano is the master of cheesecake in Seattle, having recently opened a second location for his popular shop, The Confectional, on Capitol Hill to supplement the throngs of people who visit his tiny store front in Pike Place Market. Now, with Halloween over, he and his staff can concentr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Chocolate Chip Cookies with Puddleglum on a Tuesday Night

    http://finance.varolmak.com​For the past several hours, the page in front of me has been completely blank. I have not even written and erased anything. I got up and made dinner. I had a glass of wine. I came back. But the page remained blank. When I woke up this morning, there were at least th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Just in Time for Oyster Season: Eugene Walter's Recipes for Oysters With Beer, Sherry, and Ouzo

    ​The dry white wine in potato salad and vermouth in lamb stew are quick to evaporate, Eugene Walter assured a prospective publisher of the recipe and essay collection that became The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink. ("I presume the book will be a favorite Chris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Three Little Words You Love To Hear: Doughnut Bread Pudding

    Photo by Scott Pitts​Before co-founding Top Pot Doughnuts with his brother Michael nearly a decade ago, Mark Klebeck worked just about every job imaginable, from Mr. Rags to Palisade: "I think that there's so many jobs out there that I worked and hated. I remember one summer my brother and I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Recipe: Julie Kloss's Ultimate Chocolate Cookies

    Photo courtesy of Dutch Bike Co.​You'll usually find Julie Kloss at Ballard's Dutch Bike Company. If she's not chatting with her customers -- "We just have the nicest people come in, so it's so satisfying and it's fun to be a part of peoples' day and I feel I've gotten to know so many people w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    A Recipe for Gooey Chocolate Cookies from Alice Medrich's Latest Book

    Bittersweet Decadence Cookies (Image courtesy of http://lettuceeatkale.com).​In her latest, award-winning cookbook, Chewy, Gooey, Crispy, Crunchy Melt-in-Your-Mouth Cookies, Alice Medrich introduces readers to new cookies and refines recipes for classic cookies, delivering excellent results. ... More >>

  • Food

    May 4, 2011

    Rachel Yang's Revel Yell

    Joule's founder starts a Fremont frenzy.

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Rhubarb Doughnuts a Sweet Sign of Spring

    Photo by Leslie KellyGive it up for Lucy's rhubarb cream doughnuts!​TASTE's pastry chef Lucy Damkoehler says: "I love making these doughnuts as a celebration of spring! Why wait to use your rhubarb in a pie, when you can make these delicious, creamy delights!" Read part one and part two of thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Recipe: Lemon Panna Cotta With Lavender Coconut Foam, Coconut Shavings, and Candied Meyer Lemon

    Now that we've seen the first inklings of spring, I thought it would be nice to make a not-too-heavy, not-too-sweet dessert to pair with some sunshine and [the hope for] warmer weather. Although you might assume that I used a hydrocolloid to make the gel-like panna cotta and a modified soy prote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Powdered-Duck-Fat Popcorn Seasoning

    Popcorn can be boring.  As much as I love butter and salt, and I do love butter and salt, shoveling greasy handfuls of soggy popcorn into my facehole gets old within a few bites.  Luckily, we don't have to rely on Orville and Redenbacher for the flavors we crave.  Using tapioca ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    The Cooky Book Keeps It Simple

    ​There is a simplicity in cookbooks from 30 or 40 (or more) years ago that is mostly missing in contemporary cookbooks. In the Cooky Book, there are no references to kitchen scales, silicone baking mats, or 70% cacao baking chocolate, and instructions are sometimes as simple as "mix thoroughly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    6 Chocolate Fillings: Can You Guess Them All?

    © Sees CandyLove it or loathe it: Your basic box of chocolates will either disappoint or provide endless hours of guessing-game fun.​Whether you love, like, or hate Valentine's Day and chocolate, you've probably bitten down on a mystery cube a time or two in your life. What is the sick fasci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Revel Is Better Than Hawaii, Where Lava Has Multiple Uses

    Duck meatballs so good it'll make you stick your dick in here.​Many things about Hawaii are beyond remarkable. Hawaii has shaved ice: like pussy, ice is better shaved. Hawaii is also the only state in the U.S. where lava isn't just a soap old people use. In Hawaii you can ACTUALLY SEE REAL LAV ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Make Girl Scout Cookies at Home!

    ​In a little less than a month, it'll be Girl Scout cookie season again--that delightful time of year when you shell out $4 for a box of Thin Mints and devour half the pack before arriving home. Maddeningly, Girl Scout cookies are only sold for a three-week period during the end of February an ... More >>

  • Food

    January 12, 2011

    La Bete Puts the B in Superb

    Chez Gaudy's successor is SUPER BADASS!

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Pink Strippers and Social Network Nuggets: A Golden Globe-Themed Menu

    Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures​The Golden Globe Awards - forever in the shadow of its prettier older sister, the Oscars - will take place on Jan. 16. The event will no doubt be the kick off to award show viewing party season, and for the last-minute planner filled with the burning desire to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Salted Will Change the Way You Cook With Salt

    Himalayan salt blocks are rad. But pricey.​Mark Bitterman's manifesto, Salted is the kind of book I wish I'd never read. I could have gone on buying 79-cent cartons of salt at the supermarket and been none the wiser. Now, I want to stock my pantry with salts from around the world. Read Part I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Vegan And Gluten-Free Cookies That Taste Great? Hell Yeah

    Photo by Leslie KellyMost of Marie Holtz's desserts at Cafe Flora are vegan and gluten-free.​Marie Holtz from Cafe Flora promises these cookies don't have any weird bean-y after taste. Go ahead and dunk 'em, warm from the oven, in a tall glass of soy milk. Read part one and part two of this we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    A Recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies from The Essential New York Times Cookbook

    Image courtesy of The New York TimesThrow away every other recipe you have for chocolate chip cookies. ​Many of the 1,400-plus recipes in The Essential New York Times Cookbook by Amanda Hesser are American classics, yet many recipes reflect how our palates have changed over the last 150 years. ... More >>

  • Food

    November 3, 2010

    Organic Cheetos, Wine Jelly, Sous Vide Salmon, and Other Geek Recipes

    The Seattle Food Geek shows you how to become a confident, cut-rate kitchen chemist.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Rene Redzepi Dazzles Mistral Kitchen With Caramel Marrow, Rejects Scandinavian Metal

    This ceremonial Viking hammer was used to crush ice (and enemy skulls) at Mistral Kitchen. Somehow I thought Thor's Hammer would have more lightning bolts shooting out of it.​Rene Redzepi is the head chef of Noma. Located in Copenhagen, Denmark, Noma was recently voted BEST RESTAURANT IN THE W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Full Tilt Scores With Its Gooey Good Caramel Sauce

    Photo by Leslie KellyGo ahead and add some booze to your caramel sauce.​Justin Cline, owner of Full Tilt in White Center, the U-District, Columbia City and, by early next year, in Ballard, too, doesn't really use recipes. But he wrote down his version of caramel sauce that's such a hit at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Betty and Crow's Pastry Chef's Cookies Great With Ice Cream

    Photo by Leslie KellyShortbread cookies are a big hit at Betty.​Brittany Bardeleben's shortbread cookies are just begging to be dipped into the ever-changing flavors of housemade ice cream at Betty and Crow. Read part one and two of our Q&A with Bardeleben to learn more about her old-school/so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Urbana Legends: A Salad With Absolutely No Greens But Enough Pink And Yellow To Make Up For It

    Just a small serving of Urbana's 24-Hour Salad. ​As a sort of Julie & Julia-type project for Voracious, I'll be taking on the mighty recipes of the United Methodist Church of Urbana, Ohio. Every Tuesday, I'll whip up one of the Midwestern classics and chronicle the cooking process, while offer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Urbana Legends: A Not-So-Crazy Dessert That Makes Any Cook Feel Accomplished

    Bite-size pieces of homemade sugary heaven. ​As a sort of Julie & Julia-type project for Voracious, I'll be taking on the mighty recipes of the United Methodist Church of Urbana, Ohio. Every Tuesday, I'll whip up one of the Midwestern classics and chronicle the cooking process, while offering ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Recipe: Fresh Flours' Green Tea Cookies

    Photo by Lara Ferroni​These green tea cookies are a signature treat created by Fresh Flours, in Phinney and Ballard. Etsuko Minematsu is one half of the couple behind the pair of bakeries in Phinney and Ballard; her husband, Keiji Koh, is head baker. This recipe is part three of our time with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Grillaxin' with Diane Skwiercz of Street Treats

    Photo courtesy of Diane Skwiercz, pictured.​Street Treats is a mobile confectional set to launch in May. Diane Skwiercz is still putting all the details together, figuring out recipes, getting the truck decked out, and plotting which neighborhoods to invade. I spoke with her about launching he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    This Week's Recipe: Dana Cree's Chocolate Chip Licorice Ice Cream

    ​Before becoming pastry chef at Poppy, Dana Cree worked for three years at Lampreia (on the savory side), then staged at The Fat Duck in England and WD-50 in New York City, both internationally famous for their culinary experimentation. After returning to Seattle, Cree was pastry chef at Eva a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Cupcake Royale Goes Local (and Gets Bigger)

    When Jody Hall opened the original Cupcake Royale/Vérité Cafe in Madrona in December 2003, she says it was the first cupcake bakery to open outside New York. Has it really only been five and a half years? An entire generation of toddlers are being raised by parents who had cupcake weddi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Reverse Engineering: Cremant's Chocolate Cognac

    This little creamy concoction has inspired a local following for Cremant and has any drink you could make behind the bar beat. Why? It starts as rich hot chocolate and doesn't just rely on chocolate liqueur. At least, I think. I have no idea how Cremant makes their version, and while this one tastes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Cake! (Or Reasons to Celebrate Catholic Holidays)

    No place is better at identifying and really playing up the hedonistic parts of the normally austere Catholic faith's high holidays than New Orleans. And today, Epiphany (when those wise men supposedly bestowed the baby Jesus with gold, frankincense and myrrh, lucky kid), is no exception. New Orlean ... More >>

  • Food

    December 10, 2008

    Make Your Own Nog!

    It’s not that difficult. It’s not that spendy. And it’s really f#$%*&* delicious.

  • Music

    February 20, 2008

    The Sea Navy’s Holiday Sweet Potatoes

    Postholiday style.

  • Music

    November 21, 2007

    Josh Ottum's Oslo Kringle

    What you eat when you're dining with the band.

  • Food

    May 2, 2007

    After Homemade Limoncello, You'll Accept No Other

    It's like eating lemon meringue pie at a lazy Sunday picnic.

  • Food

    December 7, 2005

    Cocktailing at Home

    It's like eating lemon meringue pie at a lazy Sunday picnic.

  • Food

    November 2, 2005

    Chef's Notes

    Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  • Diversions

    December 15, 2004

    Lovin' in the Oven

    Idiosyncratic new cookbooks arrive from some of Seattle's finest kitchens.

  • Diversions

    December 10, 2003

    Cookbooks 2003

    The year of back to basics.

  • Food

    March 5, 2003

    Food Files

    The year of back to basics.

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    How to Gift 'n' Go

    The en-route jackpot is there for the taking

  • Food

    November 22, 2000

    Tasteful words

    A local chef shares his herb-infused secrets.

  • Music

    December 15, 1999

    Can't catch me

    A local chef shares his herb-infused secrets.

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