Anthony Lombardi

This is called Queen of Sheba. Pretty fancy name huh? Well it deserves it! I’ve made this chocolate torte quite a few times now, and every time I’m reminded of how good it is. If you’re looking for a super-chocolaty cake with a very unique texture, this is it.

This was a spur-of-the-moment idea I had, and it turned out very delicious. I toasted croissant halves (which you may not need to do if they’re fresh and crispy still), let them cool a bit, and then topped them with pastry cream lightened with whipped cream, fresh raspberries, and powdered sugar. I’m sure other fresh [...]

This is another use of the Danish dough that I used to make the Danish Twists recently. The recipe is in the good but out-of-print book “The Best Bread Ever“. I made the variation with raspberry jam and cream cheese. Personally I think the cream cheese isn’t really needed. I’d add more raspberry jam instead [...]

One of the stranger things I’ve made, but very tasty too. This is tangerine juice, sugar, citric acid, methylcellulose, and xanthum gum, all blended together until it increases in volume 8 times. Then it’s baked in a 150 degree oven for 9-10 hours. The recipe is in Johnny Iuzzini’s book Dessert Fourplay. It’s actually just [...]

My beautiful girlfriend Lisa and I are now engaged! As you can see in the picture below, I made a pretty crazy ice cream cake for her and wrote the proposal on top in funny spelling, with the ring in the middle. We jokingly talk like that sometimes. She laughed out loud when she saw [...]

Today, for the first time, I made some homemade bagels. Both Lisa and I agree they’re the best we’ve ever had! We ate them with the usual topping: cream cheese. Part of the reason they were so good may have been simply that they were fresh. The crust was nice and crisp and the crumb [...]