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Chocolate buttons

  Happy New Year 2012~ Wishing you good health, prosperity and lots of joy! A tiny sugar cookie shaped like a button is flavored with chocolate, coated with ganache and dabbed with a whisper of gold leaf. INGREDIENTS: 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp of baking powder 1 cup unsalted  butter room temperature 1 [...]
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Chocolate roulade

How many of you are secretly happy for a Halloween night with trick-or-treaters knocking at the door and the excuse  to stash pounds and pounds of candy at the house? I was! Well, the kids are grown and neighborhood kids are not knocking these days. This cake is a great consolation:  flour-less, moist, creamy and [...]
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Eggplant gianduja

  A recipe from Eric Bernardin the cerebral and creative blogger (and Bordeaux wine expert). He got it from another site that got it from chef Bruno Verjus.Well, I was not about to let this pass untested; after all, they are fiddling with the eggplant, the most revered  of our Levantine vegetable! It is simply [...]
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