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Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe

Carrot Cake: Our Award Winning Recipe! Me, my sister Lea and my husband Maurice.  Circa 1979, selling our famous carrot cake at a Central Park Fair. We sliced until we dropped. Our Post-Woodstock Pre-Chassidic days. You like? I remember…
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LEVANA COOKS WITH OSEM MATZAH PRODUCTS: PASSOVER BROWNIE RECIPE

Passover brownies are virtually undiscernable from year-round brownies, because there is so little flour in the whole preparation that making Passover brownies substituting tapioca starch or potato starch for the flour is a painless transition.…
coconut meringues
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Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Meringues Recipe

Coconut Meringues: Chocolate-dipped! This is serious delicious trouble! Kids, please: Don't let's get into a turf war with the distinguished and wonderful French Macarons, or with the somewhat less distinguished and ubiquitous canned Passover…
sweet vermicelli
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Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

Moroccan Sweet Vermicelli is comfort food at its best and easiest. And healthiest: In Morocco we grew up on this kind of dessert my mother, an ingenious cook if I ever met one, used to whip  up at the drop of a hat, for children big and small.…
chocolate sauce
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Chocolate Sauce Recipe

No commercial chocolate sauce comes anywhere close to this one. So simple to make, and so versatile. Plus: Dairy-free, and all natural. How can you miss? Serve it on cake or ice cream, dip strawberries and orange slices in it as soon as it…
chocolate chip cookies
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My Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

My Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe is in all my cookbooks.     I can never make enough of these; and apparently, neither can thousands and thousands of people. You would think I would get tired of them. Absolutely not! Besides…
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Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse Torte Recipe

Mousse Torte: I can't remember how many I made for parties. And at Levana Restaurant, we were never one day without chocolate hazelnut mousse torte. A few years ago, a couple whose wedding I was catering wanted this very cake, but luxuriously…
berry kanten
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Berry Kanten Recipe: Jell-o of Champions

Berry Kanten Recipe: Consider kanten the Jell-O of champions. You can make it with any kind of fruit and juice, or tea. Take a look at my Lychee Kanten Recipe. Kuzu, the starch of the kuzu plant, is a great natural thickener, and is…
muffins
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Muffins Recipes. Including Vegan and Gluten-Free

Muffins Galore! That's right: You say cupcakes, I say muffins! Gosh, I would hate to lose my popularity with the junior cupcake crowd, but many years of catering kids’ parties and watching their delighted faces as their lick their fingers…
chocolate cake
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Chocolate Cake Recipe, Chocolate Icing Option

Chocolate Cake: The stuff of dreams! At a recent Shabbos dinner my table was crammed with chocolate addicts: Chocolate Cake a must, right? Since this is an addiction we can easily admit to, and with no need to get apologetic, I decided to make…
Apple Sauce Recipe
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Homemade Apple Sauce Recipe

Homemade Apple Sauce What could possibly beat homemade apple sauce? While you indulge in frying - and eating - latkas and their trademark topping, it's a perfect time to tell you that the store-bought apple sauce doesn’t hold a candle…
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Quick Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipes

Bread pudding is the answer to the perennial question, what to do with all that leftover bread, we always ask ourselves after Shabbos (attention Gluten-Free diners: this is for you too!). Turn in into bread pudding in a jiffy, that's what!…