Cupcakes, Two Ways…

Actually, while the cupcakes themselves come in two varieties, Chocolate and Vanilla, both welcome the public the same way, with a rich dulce de leche cream frosting sprinkled with chocolate shavings and caramel bits.  There should be a deeper meaning in all of this, but that’s a discussion best left to the philosophers. We’re here for…

Wait, How Do You Pronounce It?

“al-FA-ho-RACE” is fairly close, at least by virtue of my five years of high school Spanish.  Then again, that was a bit longer ago than it’s comfortable to admit… Anyway, alfajores are one of South America’s, specifically Uruguay’s, contributions to the world’s dessert table.  The cookie is particularly light and crumbly, due to large amounts…

Muito obrigado por tudo!

How spectacular would a cake have to be make one happy to be at work, even while returning after a long holiday weekend?  To achieve this miracle, the cake would need to be extraordinary, of course, featuring multiple strata of moist, rich chocolate and topped with an ethereal white layer. Such would be the confection of dreams.  It…