Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

This recipe is based on Martha Stewart’s Outrageous Chocolate Cookies. They’re amazingly good — the kind of recipe you make to enthrall other people with your baking prowess. The recipe popped into my mind after trying Green & Black’s white chocolate. I don’t like white chocolate but, after getting a rave review on Candy Blog, […]

For Passover, the local Wegmans stocked up on Doc Brown’s Root beer, macaroons, and Black and White Cookies from Wein’s bakery. I grew up downstate, where — I guess — there are more Jewish people. So these “specialty items” that flooded Wegmans are just regular things I grew up eating — especially Black and White […]

Mmm, mmm good. This recipe was a challenge. I wanted to create something that would be eligible for the next Sugar High Friday; this month’s theme requires that all desserts incorporate liquor into the recipe. My initial thought was baba rhum. But then I read Chandra’s instructions: “let’s try to stay away from the ever […]

“A Butter icing is like a favorite cotton dress…simple and easy to put on…cooked white frosting like a perky street ensemble…and the extra touches of tinted coconut, toasted nuts, or allegretti are the gay accessories that make a costume ‘special.’ Your family will enjoy your ‘dressed-up’ cakes the more because they look so pretty.” – […]

Ah! Fudge. Sadie the stepdaughter sampling sweets. Read the recipe here. Two things about fudge: 1) it’s notoriously difficult to make 2) I’ve never made it before. Recipe … for disaster! (Cue musical sting.) But this month’s Martha Stewart Living, which calls like a culinary siren,had a fudge recipe replete with “money shots”: a pile […]

It’s been a pretty hectic week around here, which has precluded me from doing much blog-worthy cooking. We ate corned beef and cabbage leftovers, homemade chicken soup, some take out and tonight, we had an impromptu potluck with some good friends. We had a great time: five kids and five adults feasting on smoked pork […]

TIP: Cutting angel food with a regular knife will squash the cake. If you don’t have an angel food cake comb (above) saw through it with unflavored dental floss. This recipe comes from Creighton, the 12 year old daughter of two good friends. She has made this — by herself — on several occasions. In […]

With and without chocolate. Everyone loves these cookies; make them and people will genuflect before you. They bake up very thin and crisp but after a day or so, they soften up and become chewy (which is how I prefer them). They have very little flour in them but lots of butter and sugar, which […]

This recipe comes from the March issue of Everyday Food (and is very similar to CDKitchen’s version. I made these last weekend for a potluck dinner and they were devoured. Rich, chewy, and chocolately, more than one person asked for the recipe. The recipe calls for pecans and semi-sweet chocolate, which I substituted for walnuts […]