CONTEST: Cheesecake Recipe

Is your recipe better than Junior’s Lemon Coconut Cheesecake? Photo courtesy Junior’s. Junior’s Restaurant—a favorite of cheesecake-loving New Yorkers for 6 decades—is celebrating its 60th birthday with a national contest for the next great flavor of its cheesecake. The company already has dozens of delicious cheesecake flavors, from Original Plain, Chocolate Swirl and best-selling Strawberry…
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PRODUCT: Amy’s Organic Chocolate Loaf Cake

Hankering for a piece of chocolate cake? Keep one of Amy’s new Organic Chocolate Cakes in the freezer—regular or gluten-free—and slice a piece whenever the mood strikes. For a vegan product—no butter or eggs—the cakes are rich and moist, and a good quick fix. The gluten-free version disappeared from our freezer as quickly as the…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: Brownies At Brunch Month

We don’t know who thought up the holiday, Brownies At Brunch Month, but we’re thankful for the alternative to traditional breakfast pastries. Today and throughout the month of August, you can serve brownies at brunch along with: A discussion of the different types of brownies—fudgy versus cakey, moist versus rich and more. The history of…
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PRODUCT: Caribbean Rum Cake

A black rum cake is dense with ground raisins, prunes and cherries. Photo by Katharine Pollak | THE NIBBLE. There are some mediocre rum cakes out there, but we’ve been having a pretty good run tasting delicious brands. The most recent are from Caribbean Cake Connoisseurs, owners of the enviable URL Rumcake.com. They make both…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Hot Fudge Cupcake Icing

This week we visited the website of Saint Cupcake, a cupcake bakery in Portland, Oregon. In addition to buttercream and cream cheese frostings, the busy bakers came up with a third concept: icing cupcakes by dipping them in chocolate sauce (a.k.a. hot fudge). We like that idea—especially since our Top Pick Of The Week is…
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