I’ve modified Zingerman’s Sourdough Farm Bread with Pepper and Bacon recipe so that it doesn’t require kneading. Need I say more? OK, I’ll add “Dutch oven.”
Baking
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Old-Fashioned Chocolate Layer Cake
Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake: an excellent buttermilk chocolate layer cake with a fantastic frosting, from Amerca’s Test Kitchen.
Light Wheat Sourdough Bread
Light Wheat Sourdough Bread, baked in a Dutch oven. Includes directions on how to create and maintain a starter. Produces an enviable crust.
How to Make No-Bakes with Old-Fashioned Oats
How to Make No-Bakes with Old-Fashioned Oats: easy to make, chocolaty-cocoa, peanut-buttery, stovetop, comfort-food cookies.
Lemon Layer Cake
Lemon Layer Cake: alternating layers of white cake and lemon curd shrouded in a cloud of a feather-weight, whipped frosting.
Chocolate Blackout Cake
Chocolate Blackout Cake is three layers of buttermilk-chocolate cake, interspersed with a luscious, chocolate pudding. Beautifully decorated in cake crumbs.
Chocolate Chip Cookies: The Best I’ve Ever Made
I stumbled across this Jacques Torres recipe at Martha Stewart. Though it specifies bittersweet or semisweet, milk chocolate would be just as delicious. A combination of bread and pastry flour (maybe a touch of whole wheat), plus the secret of refrigerating the dough (thank you, NY Times), makes these cookies chewy, beautiful, and texturally interesting.
Smith Island Cake
A Smith Island Cake consists of many, thin cake layers. It looks like a crepe cake, but the layers are made with from-scratch cake batter. This chocolate fudge version is ultra traditional.
Pear and Olive Oil Cake
Poached Pear and Olive Oil Cake with hints of ginger and spice, paired with a luscious, cream cheese frosting: yeah!