Sherrie Flick

Posts Tagged ‘dessert’

Chocolate-Beet Cake with Cayenne, Fresh Pear, and Black Pepper

March 8, 2012

Beets bobbed like roiling hearts in the pan of boiling water. I measured the flour and baking soda into a big green bowl. Turned up the radio as a Felice Brothers song came on. Added salt. When I grabbed the pepper grinder and then the cayenne, I knew I’d tugged my recipe into uncharted waters. [...]

Food and Writing and Life and Food: Orange-Lavender Pound Cake

June 22, 2011

Food This blog exists because I published a novel. The novel exists because I worked at a bakery. The bakery, Ceres Bakery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, served as the start of my food education. The women there taught me most everything I know about baking and cooking and feminism and living a good, fine, adventurous [...]

Artists Eat (at my house): Elise Levine and David Smooke

June 1, 2011

This post is the first installment in a new series: Artists Eat (at my house) where artists come to my house to eat, and then share some of their art, posted here along with a recipe. I think it will be fun and creative and tasty. Or, that’s the idea. E2 and Lemon Tart E2 [...]

Oatmeal cookies with dried cherries, cinnamon, crystallized ginger, and walnuts.

April 29, 2011

Pecan pie for Pam and Guy.

April 4, 2011

Pear pie for Joy and Rob.

March 26, 2011

Whole wheat pear cake with walnuts.

February 15, 2011

Calvados syllabub. Happy holidays!

December 25, 2010

Holiday stollen, 2010.

December 10, 2010

Applesauce cake with roasted walnuts and cinnamony cream cheese frosting.

October 31, 2010