This recipe doesn’t have chocolate in it, but it tastes like it. Alice Medrich's cocoa sorbet in Pure Dessert.

I’d like to make a birthday cake that people can just grab and eat. Cupcakes fit the description, but I’d like something a little fancier. I’m think about making Alice Medrich's fallen chocolate souffle cake...

There is a recipe for marjolaine in Cocolat by Alice Medrich. There is no mocha flavoring in it, but lots of hazelnuts. I have never made it but I have eaten it when purchased from the shop of the same name years ago. It was...

In Alice Medrich's excellent book of desserts, “Cocolat”, there is a recipe for Prune and Armagnac Loaf. Basically a pound cake in which armagnac-soaked prunes are folded in. I add toasted walnuts. Mighty fine.

buckwheat cookie recipe she made from Pure Dessert. If you scroll down to the links at the bottom of her post, you’ll see she includes one that is an interview with Alice Medrich wherein Ms. Medrich talks a bit about her...

I buy a lot of things including cookbooks on Amazon. Today when I ordered an Alice Medrich (low-fat baking)book, I was thanked by ads for weight loss centers in Jersey City, NJ!!! (I work in the culinary wasteland that is...

Dorie Greenspan’s lemon cream tart or Alice Medrich's lemon tart?

From France. OMG, this stuff is amazing! If I don’t eat it all a dab at a time the first thing I plan to make is Alice Medrich's Honey Panna Cotta from Pure Dessert. I’d like to hold off until my lavender plants bloom...

Buckwheat pancakes are good — they give lots of energy! You could also try Brittany-style crepes with gruyere and ham. I think there’s a recipe on Saveur’s site. And I believe Alice Medrich's new cookbook...

You will have to extract the nibs, ferment them possibly, roast them, grind them and then gently heat them for a long time (conching). Sounds like the Little Red Hen. Please do the research on fermentation. As for help with the...

sugar" One of my favorite chocolate cake recipes (for a very adult, bittersweet cake) uses unsweetened chocolate: Mississippi Mud Cake from "New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant." “Bittersweet” by Alice Medrich has an...

I use Bittersweet by Alice Medrich a lot — great recipes and easy to follow.

for what to do with it. I was thinking of making a cake and whipping some of it for filling/frosting and then keeping some of it pourable for a glaze. But any other ideas would be most appreciated. Just don’t recommend...

Interesting... I see these cocoa brownies are from my baking idol, Alice Medrich. She also has a fabulous recipe for melted-chocolate brownies (also calling for 1/2 c. flour). I wonder if good results could be had by combining...

Alice Medrich, in her low-fat cookbook, has a recipe for pumpkin pie. She has you bake the pumpkin pie without crust, then scoop it into nests made of phyllo.