Chocolate and Vanilla Recipes

These recipes come form Gale's book Chocolate and Vanilla. Click here to go to the Recipes main page.

Chocolate-Almond Upside-Down Cake
This chocolate cake with a gooey-nutty topping is an upside-down cake designed for chocolate lovers.

Vita’s Ricotta Doughnuts
My Sicilian-American mother-in-law, Vita Seidita, taught me how to make these tender-on-the-inside, crisp-on-the-outside doughnuts, which she often made for her family on Sunday mornings.

Buttermilk Panna Cotta with Strawberry Mash
My husband Jimmy stops reading the dessert menu when he reaches panna cotta, a creamy, easily-made custard sometimes flecked with what I like to call vanilla “caviar,” the tiny seeds from the vanilla pod.