Dessert Recipes

Pumpkin Pie With Ginger Cookie Crust

November 23, 2011
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Two days to go before Thanksgiving and the old familiar dilemma pops up.  Do I make the traditional dishes that everyone loves or is there room for any innovation?

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Apple Cake with Caramel

October 9, 2011
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Yom Kippur was winding down yesterday, the last of the sun’s rays fading from the stained glass windows in the temple; my feet tired from standing during the Neilah service, my thoughts turned to the menu for the break-the-fast party my sister-in-law makes every year.  It’s a dairy party, bagels, lox, cream cheese and an [...]

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A Honey Cake for 5772/ 2011

September 20, 2011
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Ever on the quest for a moist dark honey cake that tempts you to eat a second and third slice, I invented a new recipe this year using my favorite dark amber avocado honey and date molasses.  This honey cake not only uses the quintessential Rosh Hashanah ingredient of honey

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Hazelnut Biscotti with Dried Cranberries

August 21, 2011
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Biscotti are such a wonderful cookie and very Sephardic in spirit since they are great dunked in Turkish coffee.  I baked a new version of hazelnut biscotti the other day, try these. 6 plus 1 cups all purpose unbleached flour

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Peach Cobbler

August 5, 2011
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Are  you inundated with too many ripe peaches?  Make this easy peach cobbler in in 1/2 hour and then just wait for it to bake while wonderful smells drift out of your oven.  I made this the other night after coming home from the movies.  We ate it hot.

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