Tag: desserts

Homemade “Magic Shell”

Homemade “Magic Shell”

‘Magic Shell’ is probably one of the easiest things to duplicate at home. In fact, in my years of cooking with coconut oil, I’ve accidentally ‘magic shelled’ a number things when I’ve added melted coconut oil to cold ingredients. I just played around with the 

Chocolate Pudding

Chocolate Pudding

One of the first things I was tasked with ‘cooking’ was chocolate pudding from a box. I don’t know how old I was – I just remember feeling really put out at how much stirring was involved. Eventually I graduated to making pudding from scratch 

Lemon Curd

Lemon Curd

A few years ago, we purchased a small Meyer Lemon tree. We keep it indoors in the winter, and move it outdoors in the summer. It has suffered from both neglect and over kindness, and has weathered its share of damaging hailstorms. Yet every year 

‘Crazy’ Chocolate Cake

‘Crazy’ Chocolate Cake

This was the very first cake I made on my own when I was a kid. Since then I’ve baked a lot of chocolate cakes – most of them fancier and more complicated (especially after watching an episode of Bake Off ). They haven’t really been