Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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  • Coconut Macaroon Cake

    Coconut Macaroon Cake

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    The right dessert to serve at Hanukkah, according to experts, is sufganiyot: aka, jelly donuts. Based on the same miracle that brings us latkes, the donuts are fried in lots of oil. Call me a health nut, but eating jelly donuts after eating a ton of latkes seems like an unpleasant gut bomb. For dessert,…

  • Spiced-Quince Brown-Butter Cake

    Spiced-Quince Brown-Butter Cake

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    Taylor Swift is in her tortured poet era, and I’m in my quince era. What can I say? I love how those rock hard, green softballs transform with a little time, a little sugar, and a little liquid into something so fragrant and colorful. Not to mention, when they’re cooked, they taste like honey and…

  • Apple Bundt Cake

    Apple Bundt Cake

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    A new Dorie Greenspan cookbook is always a cause for celebration. Her latest, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes, is just the kind of book her loyal fans want from her: a cookbook full of expert advice that’s also cozy and comforting . Reading her headnotes is like having your favorite teacher show up at your house with…

  • Bar Bête

    Bar Bête

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    When I went on Watch What Happens Live to promote my novel Food Person, I was told that Andy would be asking me one and only one question: “What’s the book about?”

  • 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…

  • Blueberry Streusel Sour Cream Coffee Cake

    Blueberry Streusel Sour Cream Coffee Cake

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    We hosted a brunch here last weekend. The original plan was just to offer bagels and cream cheese (four different kinds!) and smoked salmon with red onions and sliced tomatoes and capers and coffee made to order. That seemed like enough but then I asked myself,”What else would you want there if this were at…

  • 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…

  • Banana Upside-Down Cake

    Banana Upside-Down Cake

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    Most cakes tell you what they’re going to look like before you put them in the oven. If you make a flourless chocolate cake, it’s going to be the same color going in as it is coming out. Same for an almond cake, a coconut cake (pre-icing), a hummingbird cake, etc. Upside-down cakes are different.…

  • 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…