Café liégeois with Homemade Coffee Ice Cream ~ a coffee and chocolate dessert
Café liégeois used to be universally known as café viennois. But after the Germans invaded Belgium, attacking the city of …
Category Archives: Desserts
Moelleux au chocolat en aumônières ~ Soft Chocolate Cake in a Beggar’s Purse
In the 14th century, having money on hand to give to a passerby who begged a gift was (and still …
Off the Menu: featuring Fresh Redcurrant Tart with Shortbread Crust
Redcurrants ripen from mid to late summer. The diplomatickitchen briefly sets aside the menu of recipes for Mixing Dinner and …
Hungarian Sour Cherry-Cream Pie ~ Meggyes-krémes lepény
There are traditional meals that are not necessarily everyday occurrences. The English ‘Elevenses’ fits into this category. So does the …
Chocolate Marquise ~ Marquise au chocolat
A staunch chocolate admirer cannot fully appreciate a dessert bereft of their favorite sweet. “That was very good,” the chocolate …
Lemon-Glazed Persimmon Cakes
Many years ago, long before the appearance of The Online Recipe Box, there was The Recipe Drawer. Usually located in …
Nena’s Croatian Sour Cherry Cake
Laurie Colwin, cook, food writer and novelist, felt that a picnic was a good excuse to eat a whole bag …
Eton Mess
Among English desserts, Eton Mess has the marks of a tradition. Traditions often come dressed out in fanciful stories and …
Lemon Curd Tart with Coconut Crust
“My mother…had learned to cook when a girl…She learned the feel of foods, such as the lightness of brioche dough …
Dark Chocolate Cream
There are many for whom the kitchen is foreign territory and yet who, for any number of good reasons, may …
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