nigella's chocolate gingerbread
Super Easy Chocolate Gingerbread -
Evan Kleiman

Several years ago,  2004 in fact,  I became obsessed with Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Gingerbread from her cookbook Feast.  I made it once then another thirty times.  Why?  It's a perfect foolproof cake with holiday flavor that is dead simple, not just to make but to serve.  At Angeli we ended ...read more

Babka Monkey Bread -
Evan Kleiman

This is a mashup of a Chocolate Cinnamon Babka and a Monkey Bread.  It is good. I know that a lot of people are obsessed with cooking big pieces of meat or making cookies over the holidays, but I want breakfast or tea time treats.  Those buttery, cinnamon kissed baked ...read more

Evan's Choc Chip Cookies
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever -
Evan Kleiman

This weekend I made the best cookies I've ever made in my life.  For someone who made cookies to sell in a restaurant for years that's a pretty big statement. For years my "go to" chocolate chip cookie has been Kim Boyce's Chocolate Chip Cookies from her book Good to ...read more