Kabocha Pumpkin Cream Cake
December 12th, 2009 admin
Topics: baked, bon appetit, cream cake, dinner party, fancy, french recipes, holiday, japanese recipes, kabocha, mont blanc, mousse, NoRecipes, pastry, pumpkin
Regular readers will know that I don’t bake. You also know that I am incurably lazy in the kitchen and can’t be bothered to follow complicated recipes. That’s why I was both honored and mortified when Emily Fleischaker from Bon Appetit invited me to a Holiday Bake-Off at the Conde-Nast offices in Times Square. As I read my way down the invite and came to the list of judges, names like Barbara Fairchild , François Payard , and Dari Alexander hit me like a bag of sugar. Any initial giddiness fluttered away, and
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