Currently baking out of Baked by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito I think these brownies are the thing that started all the buzz surrounding this bakery, and by extension, this book. Oprah made them one of her “favorite things,” and America’s Test Kitchen and the Today Show awarded these brownies top honors (brownie tester – [...]

Currently cooking out of Pure Dessert by Alice Medrich. “Oh my.” That was pretty much all I could think of when I bit into a square of these deep, dark chocolatey brownies. The texture was some where between cakey and fudgey, moist but not dense and crunchy from cacoa nibs. They were so good that [...]

The first book I’ll be baking from is The Art & Soul of Baking by Cindy Mushet. It’s a hefty volume (my favorite kind) with lots of pictures. I had some reservations about it as it is part of a cookbook series by Sur La Table. I was afraid the book would turn out to [...]