Dessert Recipes

An Early Look at New Vietnamese Joint Falansai

Friends of ours who live in Bushwick looked east down a deserted-looking block of Harrison and said, "I've lived in this neighborhood for ten years, and I still can't believe there's a restaurant down there." Warehouses are quickly converting to lofts near the Morgan L stop, especially around still- ... More >>

Cata's Rustic Spanish Flavors Are Spot-on

Excellent tapas on Bowery

What's Happening: The Great CSA Smackdown, Last Day at Le Parker Meridien's Gingerbread Extravaganza Closes

Thursday, January 3 Pie-Making Class at The Brooklyn Kitchen: Head to Williamsburg to learn how to make a mean pie from author and baker Millicent Souris. She'll teach you the secret to making perfect crusts and for $65 students will leave with a crust and a mini pie to bake at home. 616 Lorimer St. ... More >>

Chocolate Blizzard? Tis Just About the Season: Some Cold Weather Treats

Dark Chocolate and Peppermint Popcorn from Popcorn, Indiana Blockbuster movies, cooking for the holidays, and snow sports signify winter months, but the coldest season of the year wouldn't be complete without festive goodies to sweeten your seasonal hobbies.

How To Make Apple Strudel From The Russian Tea Room

[See More Recipes: Grouper Santiagero From Havana Central | San Felipe Tacos From Rosa Mexicano | Chocolate-Rosewater Creme Brulee From the Baking Bean] Rosh Hashanah is coming up on Sunday and to celebrate, we have a Jewish holiday dessert from Chef Marc Taxiera off the Russian Tea Room's holiday ... More >>

How to Taste Wine

I've been drinking and enjoying wine for many years, but I haven't always tasted it. Tasting doesn't mean composing the longest list of esoteric flavor descriptors in the galaxy. We all know those annoying types who make you feel like an idiot because you can't pick out the "Oaxacan chocolate, dri ... More >>

How To Make Chocolate-Rosewater Creme Brulee From the Baking Bean

[See More Recipes: The Cocky Rooster: A Sriracha Beer | Spiced Crab Salad From Junoon] Clarice Lam is the owner of the Baking Bean, an online pastry business that delivers desserts to locations across NYC. She previously worked at Spice Market as a pastry assistant and later clinched the title of e ... More >>

Hillside: Just the Two of Us

Vinegar Hill House gets a neighbor

Spice Market Celebrating National Watermelon Day With Menu Specials

Next Friday, August 3 is another national (insert food item) day. This time: watermelons. Spice Market will be celebrating the occasion with two dishes that will be added as specials on the menu. Executive Chef Anthony Ricco will be serving watermelon gazpacho ($8.50), and bringing back an old des ... More >>

Sriracha Ice Cream Shake

Lately we've been kind of obsessed with ice cream. Here's another one to add to your list: a Sriracha ice cream shake. It's called the "The Fiery Berry Crumble" and made with strawberry ice cream, Sriracha, and graham crackers. For those a little uneasy about the sriracha component -- rest assured ... More >>

Cocktail Recipe: Tiramisu Tippler from the World's Fastest Bartender

Remember Sheldon Wiley, the world's fastest bartender who can't seem to stop breaking world records? Well he has provided us a recipe from his book. Introducing the Tiramisu Tippler. Tiramisu Tippler Ingredients: 1 ounce Patron XO 1 ounce Godiva Dark Liqueur 3 ounces chocolate pudding Cocoa powde ... More >>

Seven Pink Mother's Day Recipes

This one is for those who want to show off their cooking skills to mom this weekend. We've gathered some of the best Mother's Day friendly recipes off the web for you -- all of them with a pink flair. Click on the title of the dish to go to the original recipe. Enjoy!

Make Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter's Stewed Tomato Pudding

Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter serves the type of Southern cooking that makes us want summer to just get here already. Luckily, you don't have to wait for the warm season--and with it, summer tomatoes--to make one of the restaurant's signature dishes: stewed tomato pudding. We've got the recipe, ... More >>

Make Jemiko Solomnishvili's Buttermilk Pancakes with Bittersweet Chocolate

A pizza parlor probably isn't the first place you'd pick for a weekend brunch spot, but the guys at the Upper East Side location of Numero 28 Pizzeria are going to try to convince you otherwise. Earlier this month, they started brunch service with their signature pizzas; a morning pie with mozzarell ... More >>

François Payard's Chocolate Macarons for Macaron Day

Happy Macaron Day! Maybe our interview with François Payard convinced you that macarons are way cooler than cupcakes. Maybe you just want a light, brightly colored pastry to get you through this Tuesday. Either way, you're in luck: François Payard Bakery is hosting a type of macaron treasure hunt. ... More >>

Make Bistro Truck's Moroccan Chicken Almond Pastilla

If any country understands the appeal of combining sweet and savory , it's Morocco. They flavor their roasted meats with cinnamon and wash them down with sweet mint tea. A contender for Morocco's national dish, pastilla combines sweet and savory like none other. Traditionally made with squab, the he ... More >>

Our 10 Best New York City Restaurant Cookbooks

Going out to dinner in New York City can be an expensive endeavor, with entrée prices clocking in at $30. But you can eat four-star food at a fraction of the price: Cook it yourself using the restaurant's cookbook. Now, cookbook love is like any other type of love -- wildly subjective. Yet some of ... More >>

5 Pies to Stuff Yourself Silly on Today, a/k/a National Pie Day

Lauren ShockeyNorth End Grill puts out a fine lemon meringue pie​Today is National Pie Day, woot woot. While Fork in the Road believes that this holiday should really coincide with the other Pi Day (March 14), any day that celebrates the bounty of baked, filled pastries is still pretty damn a ... More >>

The 10 Best $10-and-Under Dishes of 2011

The end of the year usually sees a lot of money being spent, whether on holiday gifts or new outfits or doling out bonuses to dutiful employees. So with 2012 just beginning, it's probably time to save some dough. While New York City might be expensive, you can still eat quite well for cheap. Below a ... More >>

Chocolate Chip Cookie Showdown: Testing Recipes From Three Cookie Books

Lauren ShockeyLeft to right: The Cookiepedia, The Treats Truck Baking Book, Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America​ Whether you like 'em chewy and studded with tiny milk chocolate morsels or crispy and stuffed with big bittersweet chunks, there's really no such thing as a bad c ... More >>

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook Author Frank DeCaro Dishes About What Famous Dead People Once Ate

Health CommunicationsCelebs might be gone, but not forgotten​While celebrities now get their food fixes at trendy restaurants like LA's Koi or Nobu, once upon a time they actually cooked. Eartha Kitt made a mean chicken wing, Gilda Radner whipped up a sumptuous apple cake, and Johnny Cash fri ... More >>

Battle of the Fancy Madison Avenue Chocolate Bars: Ladurée vs. La Maison du Chocolat (Plus Some Macaron Porn, Too)

Lauren ShockeyCalling all chocoholics​If you're going to spend $10 on a chocolate bar, it had better be a damn good one. Or so you'd hope. But what do you do when the market becomes flooded with overpriced chocolate bars? How can you know how to best blow your weekly paycheck on cacao? Wel ... More >>

Make Le Comptoir's French Toast Crème Brûlée, Like Chef-Owner Sebastien Chamaret

photo by Michael TulipanLe Comptoir's French Toast Crème Brûlée​ Don't you love having dessert for breakfast? At Le Comptoir, in Williamsburg, chef-owner Sebastien Chamaret has been serving his French Toast Crème Brûlée since he opened the restaurant last year. He shares his recipe for t ... More >>

Make Jenny McCoy's Strawberry-Pistachio Clafoutis with Lavender Ice Cream, from Craft

Craft's Strawberry-Pistachio Clafoutis with Lavender Ice Cream​Make the most of your summer strawberries with this refreshing take on clafoutis that incorporates strawberries and pistachios instead of the traditional cherries, courtesy of Craft's pastry chef, Jenny McCoy. "Clafoutis is one o ... More >>

Our 10 Best NYC Restaurants For Pre-Theater Prix-Fixe

Lauren ShockeyBright lights, big city. But where to eat?​The Village Voice's Obie Awards are on Monday, celebrating the best Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theater. So what better time to take in a variety of shows and performances? Yet the Theater District can be confusing culinary wate ... More >>

Battle of the Valentine's Day Chocolates: Russell Stover vs. Whitman's Sampler

Lauren ShockeyLife is like a box of (V-Day) chocolates?​It's almost time for Chocolate Day! We mean Valentine's Day! For this week's Battle of the Dishes, we're comparing heart-shaped boxes of chocolates--Russell Stover and its drugstore rival, Whitman's Sampler. Two classics which beg the ... More >>

Dorie and Josh Greenspan's CookieBar

Rebecca MarxFrom left, strawberry-raspberry and pear-pineapple jammers.​ Along with pancakes and hot chocolate, the return of Dorie and Josh Greenspan's CookieBar is one of the few things that makes February bearable. This morning, the renowned cookbook author and her son debuted the second c ... More >>

Kittichai's Ty Bellingham Talks Thai Food, Feeding the Kids & The Guy He Hired Just to Make Curry Paste

Ty Bellingham​Sydney, Australia transplant Ty Bellingham has taken over the kitchen at Kittichai, one of the city's best reviewed Thai upscale restaurants. His pedigree is as strong as it gets this side of Bangkok -- of course, with a name like Ty, what else would you expect? What changes hav ... More >>

Make Desserts NYC's Apple Tart in Cheddar Rosemary Biscuit Crust

Apple Tart in Cheddar Rosemary Biscuit Crust​For the past five years, Mary Fitzgerald was a custom baker, making birthday and wedding cakes from a rented commercial kitchen in Long Island City, until earlier this year when she found herself a storefront on East Broadway and Rutgers Street. No ... More >>

The Culinary Historians of New York Show the Big Apple What It's Biting

Eighteenth-century fish, as portrayed by Luis Melendez.​Gourmands looking to bone up on their food history should check out the Culinary Historians of New York, a nonprofit organization founded in 1985 with the aim of furthering people's knowledge about the historical and sociological signific ... More >>

Eric Ripert's Recipe for Goat Cheese Parfait from In a Cheesemaker's Kitchen

photo by Nigel ParryEric Ripert's Goat Cheese Parfait​Is there anything better than cheese? Perhaps. But the list is surely a short one. In a Cheesemaker's Kitchen, released late last year by the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company, features recipes and anecdotes from such chefs as Michel Richard ... More >>

Tully Lewis Talks About Opening Tully's, New York's Second Gluten-Free Bakery

In Februrary, you'll be able to find these on East 11th Street.​In early February, Tully Lewis is planning to open Tully's, a gluten-free bakery located in a former Veneiro's production space on East 11th Street. The bakery will be the brick and mortar manifestation of Lewis' online and wholes ... More >>

Cookbook Tester: The Craft of Baking

​ From 2001 to 2008, Karen DeMasco was the pastry chef who conjured the desserts at Craft, Craftbar, and 'wichcraft, providing a blissfully lavish counterpoint to Tom Colicchio's studiously executed cooking. DeMasco's since moved on to Locanda Verde, where she's currently demolishing diets wi ... More >>

Cookbook Tester: Everyday Harumi

Tofu with spicy minced meat sauce (Japanese-style mabo dofu)​Mackerel cooked in miso​ Harumi Kurihara is Japan's most popular cookbook writer and food authority--she has books, a magazine, and shops where she sells her cookware and clothing lines. She's like Martha Stewart, Nigella Lawso ... More >>

One Ring Zero Makes Ingredients Sing. Literally.

​Like any good chef, One Ring Zero partners well-honed technique with unconventional inspiration. The brainchild of Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, the band entered the cultural consciousness in 2004 with As Smart As We Are, an album featuring lyrics written by the likes of Margaret Atwood, Ri ... More >>

Recipe--Make Jenifer Fournier's Peach Cylinders and Vanilla Creme Fraiche with Compressed Sangria Peaches

This week, we bring you a recipe for Crunchy Peach Cylinders and Vanilla Creme Fraiche with Compressed Sangria Peaches by a Las Vegas chef. Why feature a Vegas chef, you might ask? Well, she's in town for Dessert Professional magazine's annual Ten Best Pastry Chefs in America awards, to be held at I ... More >>

Recipe--Make Julia Jaksic's Polenta Pound Cake with Summer Fruits

If you didn't already sign up for Julia Jaksic's session at Whole Foods Bowery tonight, which is a part of its How I Cook At Home series of New York chef-led classes, here is a sneak peak of what you're missing. The Employees Only chef will be talking about polenta, and will let participants in on h ... More >>

Make Pierre Poulin's Rhubarb Dessert At Home

As promised in our weekly dining newsletter, we bring you the recipe for the Rhubarb dessert from the pastry chef at Le Cirque, Pierre Poulin. Cirque is currently celebrating its 35th anniversary, and is offering its six-course tasting menu for $74 until the end of the month to commemorate the occ ... More >>

Boston-New York Cocktail Smackdown

I first published this post last spring, in honor of the first Yankees-Red Sox game. And today the same occasion rolls around again, on a beautiful, blue-sky day. And so I thought I'd revive this post, in case you feel, as I do, that this evening deserves a nice cocktail. The first Yankees-Red S ... More >>

We Get Tempted By Tanteo Infused Tequilas

We finally got a chance to try the recently launched Tanteo brand of infused tequilas. Now, I know what you're thinking: flavored tequila? Isn't that just a sneeze away from Bacardi Limon? And the answer is: not at all. Or at least not in this case. Tanteo, which is made of 100% Weber blue agave a ... More >>

80s Creme Brulee

Gotham Bar and Grill (2 East 12th Street) is celebrating its 25th anniversary by reviving some of its classic dishes from the 80s and lowering the price of their $31 lunch prix fixe to $25 for the month of March. One of their classic dishes is a Maple Crème Bruleé from 1988, pictured above. T ... More >>

Weekend Special -- Cookbook Corner

This weekend Fork in the Road is kicking off a new series focusing on cookbooks and other food-related volumes that have appeared in our in-boxes recently. Ratio: the Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by Michael Ruhlman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 231 pages, $26, pub date: ... More >>

Sexy Veggies at Dirt Candy

Breaking the vegetarian rules

Leftover Holiday Bread Pudding

Bread pudding made with rosca de reyesAs I wrote on Tuesday, which was Three King's Day, otherwise known as the Epiphany, or the day that the three kings brought all those nice presents to baby Jesus, many cultures celebrate January 6th with a sweet bread that features a small baby Jesus doll lurkin ... More >>

Little Baby Jesus Cake

Fork in the Road at Hundred Acres and Forge (Plus Recipe)

Wylie Dufresne Plays with Tofu

Last Meal: Morimoto has a Recipe for You

Masaharu Morimoto's Last Meal

Short and not so sweet

Chocolate Chocolate Chic

Haute and Cold: An ice cream taste test