Pastry Princess: Raw Chocolate

Nibbles and Bits

I have several old, tattered folders filled with hundreds of recipes. A whole corner of my room is dedicated to plastic filing cabinets crammed with pages torn from magazines and newspapers, photocopies from borrowed cookbooks and printouts from websites collected over the years. Every time another recipe finds its home in one of these folders, I promise myself that I will attempt this one – my recipe to-do list grows every day. But somehow, I never manage to actually root through these recipes when I want to bake.

I bake every day. At work. But if I bake at home, it’s not usually a premeditated attempt for which I have to search for recipes, but on a whim with something I either came across on a website or cookbook I read that day or something simple that needs not a recipe. I don’t have the means or the kitchen to produce something of restaurant quality at home, so I love an excuse to bake something simple. Even more so, I love an excuse to bake simple cookies. (read more)


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