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Banana Split Eclairs

Naomi Robinson — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:31:45 +0000

Banana split eclairs—I know shut-up, right? But really you should, so you can stuff your face with these (and when you are done don’t forget to make these S’mores Eclair too). And yes, they taste as good as they look—hard to go wrong with a banana cream stuffed pate choux covered in chocolate.

There’s a little story behind this recipe—if you follow me on Twitter then you know two weeks ago I tweeted about some pastry cream looking like mustard. That was the first run of the banana pastry cream. It tasted great but looked horrible—it was grey, so I tried to tint it with yellow coloring. Disaster

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Cherry & Lime Ooey Gooey Butter Bars

Naomi Robinson — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:44:32 +0000

The other day, someone asked me what happened to all the crack food and the creative nuggets? I’m not sure, because isn’t everything here crack food and a creative nugget? I am being facetious of course.

Here I am trying to figure out what that question could possibly mean and then it led me down the rabbit hole. And damn – that set off a creeping of self doubt. Did I lose my style, my voice, what is it? I lost something

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Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Naomi Robinson — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:09:53 +0000

Like most posts, the food has nothing to do with the written content, so let’s do food first. Chocolate chip banana muffins – make this for breakfast. It has fruit in it—go ahead. Seriously, breakfast might be the only meal in which you can get away with basically eating cake. And that is exactly why it’s my favorite meal.

Who needs lunch or dinner when you can do brunch or brinner? More of that shoddy logic I’m always pushing on you guys

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Chocolate Whopper Cake

Naomi Robinson — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:35:25 +0000

So I’m a little predictable—it doesn’t matter that I’ve made over a dozen different types of chocolate cake, I’m always ready to take on a recipe I’ve never tried. The Whopper cake is comprised from two Better Homes and Gardens recipe.

The first recipe calls for a malt frosting finish, but I skipped that for a richer chocolate taste, so I used their traditional chocolate ganache and then rimmed the side of the cake with crushed Whoppers for the malt flavoring

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Easy Stone Fruit Tart

Naomi Robinson — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:57:04 +0000

Yes, I’m a little early for some of the stone fruits you see in the picture below—guess you can say I’m overly excited for them and for summer.

Along with that I could have thrown in all this stone fruit in a double crusted pie, rolled out a pate sucre for a galette or gone with a more traditional tart crust, but two things: (1) I was lazy (2) I wanted to test the Avocado Honey from The City Farm and needed a recipe that would not overwhelm the honey

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Snickers Ice Cream Cake

Naomi Robinson — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 04:31:41 +0000

Let’s skip the guilt bartering of one slice of this cake today for three servings of salad tomorrow. Grab your stretch pants – it’s a Snickers ice cream cake, with a layer of chocolate ice cream laced with brownies and vanilla ice cream cake with more of the same—the line of filling between the two: chopped Snickers.

Really, if you are anything like me, you have these “guilt swap” thoughts. But they are just that—thoughts. A momentary buffer that disappears at first bite. I know—I should change this about me—but later, for now I’m too busy for mental flossing.�

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White Chocolate Cheesecake with Mixed Berries

Naomi Robinson — Tue, 28 May 2013 06:17:37 +0000

I have a nasty confession. But before we go there let’s talk food. See it below, white chocolate cheesecake with a boozy raspberry sauce—worth it. Make it. Top as you like, but I thought mixed berries were appropriate with 4th of July around the corner. Next time I’ll probably give this a caloric overhaul with chopped candy and brownies – predictable, I know.

Alright confession time, but backstory first. This past weekend I had to submit a headshot for something coming up. If you know me, than you know I hate having my picture taken—if you don’t know me—I hate having my picture taken. And if you are Matt than you hate pressing the shutter button over and over again while I try to work through an acceptable one

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Blueberry Bundt Cake

Naomi Robinson — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:55:47 +0000

Alright, here goes – career killing post #5, or maybe 20, but who’s counting at this point: I don’t know what it is lately, but my fanboy status for Cook’s Illustrated has been waning with the last two issues.

How can this be? This is like the no-fail magazine.

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Hazelnut Crepes with Honey Whipped Cream and Fruit

Naomi Robinson — Mon, 20 May 2013 05:53:11 +0000

Sometimes fancy doesn’t work and you just have to go back to basics. This started out as a crepe cake, but all that fruit caused the layers to slip and slide until half way through the assembly the cake literally collapsed on its side.

So yeah, this is missing a visual impact. But I can assure you the brown butter hazelnut crepes are something to taste, along with the honey whipped cream—go ahead pair this with the best seasonal fruit you have on hand and see your way to a serving or two.�

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Strawberry Truffle Pie

Naomi Robinson — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:04:27 +0000

Okay, I brought pie, so please allow me to be a whiner.

This past week I lost my Instagram feed. Talk about things that make you want to cry. No, I’m not being dramatic. That’s 4,000 relationships gone overnight. Many of whom I will never get back and don’t even know where to begin, because many of them (and/or you) I know from handles like A19_jillsli. Therein lies the problem– off by one digit or letter and it might as well be like we never met.

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