http://www.ezrapoundcake.com Cake. Delicious cake. Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:41:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ah, comfort food. You have no idea how much we were looking forward to the Fourth of July. First, we were going to drive to my parents' house for our annual Red, White, and Blue Breakfast–an event that started after Momma handed Daddy the business end of a sparkler and we ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/79 My sister is always telling me she can't do the Tuesdays with Dorie recipes at home. Too many pans, too many steps, weird ingredients. Jennifer, this one is for you: apple cheddar scones. You probably have most of the ingredients right now. And if you don't, this is a great recipe for ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/76 This morning, I completed June’s Daring Bakers challenge, the Danish braid, because we don’t have enough carbs in the house. What with the cake, the biscuits, the Tuesdays with Dorie scones. If not for Simply Orange, we’d have scurvy. There are three things you should know if you decide to make ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/71 I love cobbler. When I was a kid, summer started when my Mommaw pulled the season's first huge, bubbling, lattice-topped baking dish of peach cobbler out of the oven. She would let me eat it as hot as I could stand it, with a huge scoop (or two) of Breyers ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/64 Summer officially arrives in the U.S. tonight at 11:59 p.m. This is the year we make friends. Life's too short to dread the humidity, chlorine, and mosquitoes big enough to rape a chicken. And the sweating. The sweating! No, I'm not going to focus on that. Last January, Gourmet printed "What Is Southern?," ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/60 I've lost my techno mojo. Saturday morning, I baked this week's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe, a cream puff ring chosen by Caroline of A Consuming Passion. Monday night, I plugged in my digital camera, and the photos were gone. The next day, I baked another cream puff ring, took more photos, ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/57 Internet, if you thought my baking week couldn't get any weirder than the catfish cake, you would have been right. Until yesterday. That's when I spent the day on a cake designed to look like a 2 1/2-foot male member as the final project for my Wilton Fondant and Gumpaste ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/53 It's too hot. For complete sentences. Sleeves. Maybe breathing. Perfect weather for a fruit tart. Unlike the wholesome, humble, "American-as" pie, the tart isn't afraid to show off her goods. You wouldn't catch a tart dead in a fussy lattice cover-up or quaint maple-leaf border. Tarts go topless. They're bold. Confident. Hard-wired ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/50 Last year, I was at a total loss for what to give Jeff for his birthday. My brother-in-law, Taylor, had just scored a new-in-the-box PlayStation 3 from a police auction, and he gave it to me to give to Jeff. G-a-v-e. I paid him back the money he'd spent, but ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/49 We took these French Chocolate Brownies to a "Lost" season finale party Thursday night, and it's a good thing the room was dark, so no one noticed exactly how many I wolfed down. I needed something to supplement our dinner, which was a menu of Things That Are Difficult If Not ... http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archives/44