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Category Archives: Sweets

Lost in translation: A sweet story from my first year of motherhood

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Bombon Cake Gallery in Pilsen makes the most extraordinary cakes — delicate, melt-in-your-mouth tres leches, cinnamon-spiked chocolate mousse, perfectly spiced carrot cake studded with sweet pineapple, to name a few. I’m very particular about my desserts even when I’m not overtaken by pregnancy hormones, so I told my sister she could plan every detail of [...]

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The emperor’s new candy

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

London artist Greetje van Helmond creates lovely jewelry out of sugar crystals like the chunky necklace and ring pictured above. But with prices starting at £120 a piece — over $240 for a bauble that’s history if it falls into a cup of coffee — you can buy sugar for enough edible rocks to outbling [...]

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Anti-Valentine treats

Monday, February 11, 2008

Valentine’s Day is three days away. Saccharine profusions of hearts and flowers not your thing? There’s a sweet option for folks without significant others — or would rather not have them. Sarah’s Pastries and Candies offers heart-shaped vanilla bean sugar cookies decorated with choice phrases like “No thanks”, “Not a chance”, and “There’s someone else”. [...]

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Texas sheet cake

Monday, December 17, 2007

There’s been quite a debate in our house about what to call the cake pictured above. My husband calls it “sheath cake”, I call it “sheet cake”. Josh says it’s been called sheath cake in his family for decades; I say maybe so, but it doesn’t make any sense — what is the cake sheathing? [...]

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Pumpkin bars

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Here’s a confession: I’m really bad at making pie crust. I’ve tried just about everything — all-butter, all-shortening, half and half, the food processor method, the pastry cutter thing, bare hands — only to end up with something slightly too dry/too gooey/rolls out funny/holes in it. What’s a girl to do when she has to [...]

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