Tasty and terrific with vegan vanilla ermine frosting The Bakehouse team has unveiled a newly created vegan chocolate cake! That’s right—lots of flavor and verifiably vegan! Ermine frosting may be new to most 21st-century Americans, but its origins go back to the 1880s, when it was also known variously as “milk frosting” or “boiled milk […]

Twenty years of brewing up beautiful cups of coffee If you’ve never tried one of the “alternative brew methods” on the Big Brew Board at the Coffee Company, let me invite you here to try one. Each really does yield its own flavor characteristics, and if you have a couple extra minutes to wait while […]

Classic confection, influenced by Cuba, handcrafted in Turin Rocco Disderide, who along with his wife Katherine built the building we now know as the Deli back in 1902, was a lifelong lover of tobacco. He smoked a pipe and also cigars throughout his remarkable 105 years. Tobacco was so close to his heart that even […]

Grace Singleton, co-managing partner of Zingerman’s Delicatessen, and I persevered through internet issues (at times it sounded like we were talking to each other through fast food drive-through speakers from the ’80s) to talk about everything from her culinary background to what’s ahead in the new year at the Deli. She shared what it’s like […]

A wonderful bit of chocolatey deliciousness in a buttery pie crust Over the 20-plus years we’ve been making it, Chocolate Chess Pie has quietly become a big favorite here at the Bakehouse. As the New York Times wrote a few years back, chocolate chess pie is “the perfect move for a gathering where some people want pie, […]

Soft hazelnut meringue and a whole bunch of buttercream One of the planet’s premier pastry makers and baking book writers, the Paris-based American David Lebowitz offered, “Yes, marjolaine is a project, but worth it!” He’s writing, of course, about making marjolaine at home. Happily, for folks like me who like the idea of marjolaine but […]