I’m sure you’ve seen the zebra stripes cake around the internet at some point in your surfing life. I discovered it when only two results showed up in a yahoo search circa 2000, after I followed a photo of it. Amazing how there are now thousands of zebra stripes cakes on the internet! That said, I’m 100% sure you’ve seen peanut butter cup fudge brownies before, so no need to touch on those.
Before I get to either, a little preface.
The above is a transitional header and name (desserts and line drives was too long). I still haven’t decided where I’m going to go with this, but I got sick of looking at that ugly, old header.
Back in January of 2011, my computer crashed. The hard drive was annihilated. I lost all of my photos. Some of those photos were of several amazing and somewhat laborious, treats, three of the treats that I especially mourn to this day. One was a beautiful Tourte Milanese – layers of colorful, roasted red peppers, spinach, cheese, ham and softly scrambled, herbed eggs encased in golden puff pastry. The other was a Gateau Basque, best described as a mix of a cake, cookie and pie, from the Basque region of France, filled with luscious almond pastry cream and homemade cherry jam. The third was a 12-layer milk chocolate macadamia nougatine torte that I can’t even remember the recipe for because I didn’t write it down. PLUS, many other cool desserts and savories.
They were all so lovely, aesthetically, and exquisite in flavor, that I did everything I could with the dead hard drive, bringing it from place to place, to see what they could retrieve from it.
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