baking
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Midnight Munchies: Espresso Mousse Brownies
As both an avid baker and snacker, I had some trouble deciding what to bake for the inaugural column of Midnight Munchies. Did I want to start on a healthful or an indulgent note? How inventive/elaborate should I be? How could I encapsulate myself in a recipe? After this (slightly melodramatic) train of thought, I [...]
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Cranberry Pecan Tart
I love pie. I really love pie. I count tarts as a form of pie. One pie/tart I have never understood is pecan pie. I mean, I’d be kidding you to say that I don’t enjoy a mouth full of gooey sugar every now and then but something about pecan pie is just to much. [...]
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Dutch Apple Pie
Pippa’s back with In-Season, a great series that explores fresh produce and gives you way to create really delicious things. So you went apple picking a few weeks ago and have barely made a dent in the PILES of apples that you foolishly said you’d finish in a week. Say hello to the apple [...]
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Postcards from Paris : Macaron à la main
Kelcey achieves a gold star worthy achievement in the Culinary world: making her own macarons. Notoriously complicated and time-consuming, Kelcey’s story and pictures and recipe lead the way. I’m a pretty lucky girl. For one, I’m in Paris. Two, I’m not working, interning, or bombarded with extra-curriculars. Third, I am surrounded at all times by [...]
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Short Brittle
Courtney joins the rest of the bloggers with her series Colors and is going to recreate her amazing experiences in food form. So enjoy the fall colors and make some brittle! Hello! Welcome to my first post on the Columbia Culinary Society’s blog! Coming from my cook’s perspective, baking is formidable. Once the mix [...]
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Club Re-Cap: Culinary Society’s First-Ever Thanksgiving Pie Competition!
This past Tuesday, in honor of the great food holiday, the Culinary Society hosted its first ever Thanksgiving Pie Competition. Entrants from all over the Columbia and Barnard communities came out to showcase their baking skills, with pies of all different flavors. Of course, there were the classic Thanksgiving favorites, like pumpkin and apple pies, [...]
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Let them eat (purple fondant) cake!
We at the Culinary Society love doing catering events for different groups all over campus. The Chicano Caucus approached us to make a cake for their second annual Quinceañera themed celebration. The Quinceañera is a long standing tradition to celebrate a young woman’s fifteenth birthday, including dancing and toasting. Culinary Society collaborated with the Chicano Caucus [...]
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Cooking Across the Globe
Your summer is about to get much more interesting… How would you like to work in India as a baker, teaching people how to make your favorite breads and pastries? Or how about working with women and youth in Africa, instructing on proper food sanitation and cooking for families? What about showing women in Costa [...]
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Recipe: Banana Bread
Due to the spike in our blog viewership, we have taken on new authors. This post is from a new contributor, Katie Chan. Since I got off the meal plan, I’ve had a freshman friend sneak me fruit from Hewitt. Thinking that refrigeration would help the fruit last longer, I stuck bananas into the freezing cold [...]
