Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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Desserts

  • Cranberry Magic Bars

    Cranberry Magic Bars

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    Let’s say it’s the day after Thanksgiving and you have a glut of cranberries. What’s a person to do? You could make cranberry muffins for breakfast, that’s an idea. You could make Melissa Clark’s sticky cranberry gingerbread and people would be tickled. Or you could make what I recently made from Genevieve Ko’s 2016 cookbook,…

  • Chocolate Amaro Pecan Pie

    Chocolate Amaro Pecan Pie

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    It’s T-minus four days til T-day and most of you who are cooking have your menus worked out. But wait! I’ve got a recipe you need to add to the mix. It comes from Renato Poliafito’s fantastic Italian-American baking book, Dolci!, and it’s a pecan pie that took a trip to Italy and came back…

  • Maida Heatter’s Key Largo Cookies

    Maida Heatter’s Key Largo Cookies

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    I rewrote and revised the first sentence of my novel Food Person so many times, I know the finished one by heart: “Isabella Pasternak baked treats to bring to work every day; not as a way to endear herself to her co-workers, but as a way to avoid them.”

  • Banoffee Pie

    Banoffee Pie

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    British baking wasn’t something I thought much about until I started watching The Great British Baking Show (or “Bake-Off” as it’s known in its mother country). Now all I think about is Swiss rolls and Hobnobs and soggy bottoms. Also I spend time wondering if the show’s stylist dresses everyone, including the contestants.

  • Nectarine Upside-Down Gingerbread

    Nectarine Upside-Down Gingerbread

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    I’ve had a copy of David Lebovitz’s Ready for Dessert on my cookbook shelf for well over a decade, probably longer, and you can tell it’s much-loved because of all the flour, cocoa powder, and melted butter streaked across its pages. The fresh ginger cake is so iconic that I’m convinced one of the hottest…

  • Gina DePalma’s Obsessive Ricotta Cheesecake

    Gina DePalma’s Obsessive Ricotta Cheesecake

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    Can you channel a spirit with a recipe? That’s how it feels every time I open Gina DePalma’s Dolce Italiano, the authoritative Italian dessert cookbook that my friend Gina wrote before she died of ovarian cancer in 2016. For a dinner party this weekend, I made her Obsessive Ricotta Cheesecake. It’s funny because I convinced…

  • Mixed Berry Pie

    Mixed Berry Pie

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    Generally I try to avoid neighborhood message boards / Facebook Groups because half the time people post things like “there’s a man with a machete standing outside the bodega” or “packs of wild dogs are roaming the streets.” Occasionally, though, someone will post something that’s not terrifying. Such was the case the other day when…

  • Calabrian Walnut Cake

    Calabrian Walnut Cake

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    As many of you know, I’m an almond cake guy. So much so, if were I given the opportunity to take three recipes into my next life, one of them would absolutely be the almond cake from Cooking for Mr. Latte. You’ll find it funny, then, that when I finally set out to make a…

  • Flourless Chocolate Cake

    Flourless Chocolate Cake

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    There are certain recipes that stay with you. They follow you throughout your life and when you return to them, it’s like visiting an old friend. That’s how it is with this flourless chocolate cake that I first made for my playwriting thesis class (taught by Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman) at NYU’s Tisch School of…

  • Sassy Strawberry Sorbet

    Sassy Strawberry Sorbet

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    When strawberries are season (like they are now), you have a few options. Option one: eat them raw. Option two: eat them raw dipped in homemade whipped cream. Option three: Strawberry Shortcake. All of these are totally reasonable options — especially option three (which I plan to make this weekend for a friend’s birthday) —…