At a recent shabbos dinner my table was crammed with chocolate addicts: since this is an addiction we can easily admit to, and with no need to get apologetic, I decided to make an all-chocolate dessert course. A chocolate orgy, you might think, and who could blame you, but believe it or not,  it was [...]

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A little kitschy, right? Just this once, please! I actually succeed in turning quite a few people on to my honey cake. Mine is moist and spicy and easy to love; I trust it will make you forget all the indignities of past dried-out and brittle honey cakes. I make it several ways, all scrumptious, [...]

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This improbable ingredient combination results in an incredibly moist and fragrant cake. It is important to use a shallow mold here, like a pie plate, no higher than 2 inches high, so the syrup that is poured at the end of baking reaches all the way to the bottom. Those of you who use Matza [...]

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I developed this wonderful recipe to accommodate Kosher diners after a meat meal as well as dairy-intolerant diners. Although it is delicious as is, feel free to substitute dairy ice cream (premium please!) for the sorbet, keeping the color scheme monochromatic:  Vanilla, coffee, chocolate. I tried with a red layer (strawberry) and found it disrupted [...]

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Sometimes I take my playing with food a drop further than even I myself dare, tinkering endlessly, picking my family and friends as willing victims as I subject them to constantly evolving batches and asking them to please forget they ever tasted something if it was just way too wacky. This cake is a perfect [...]

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Promise I don’t want to be coy here: After more than two years of incredibly hard work to get my line of Natural Spelt Desserts in place, it looks like it’s finally happening. They are called, what else, Levana. I made a dry run of the desserts a couple weeks ago, and served them at [...]

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  I love all my “babies”, but this is one of my greatest triumphs. Whenever I need to get to anyone’s heart with no time to waste, I whip up this cake for them. My daughter Bella recently asked me with great urgency whether I had thought of including this recipe in this book. “Whatever [...]

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  Children adore it, and of course so will you. Bananas got too ripe? Don’t even think of chucking them, as they make the greatest smoothies, muffins and cakes, their flavor reaching their sweetest and most intense peak! The riper the better: freeze them, and when ready to use run them under warm water, the [...]

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This is one of my favorite Passover cakes. As much as I would like to make my life easier by minimizing Passover preparations, I have never had the heart to buy pre-made desserts.  The ingredients in this cake are assertive and deliciously fragrant. You will want to make it all year round. Huh? cake made [...]

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I can’t be bothered with eating junk and then feeling guilty about it, so I eat junk as rarely as I possibly can, enjoy it thoroughly and move right along until the next attack of the junkie-munchies. Rather, I always look for baked goods that would double as real food, using unrefined sugars and whole [...]

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