She smiled at Lianne, warmly and falsely, in a fragrance of glazed cakes, a mother-to-mother look, like we both know how these kids have enormous gleaming worlds they don't share with their parents.
To do so, place the just-glazed cake in the refrigerator until the glaze has hardened, about 10 minutes, remove from the refrigerator, invert over the cooling rack and ladle with warm chocolate glaze once again.
For sweets ($1.50 to $2.95) there are appealing little glazed chocolate cakes, moist yellow cake squares paved with caramelized apple, and chocolate mousse pie with whipped cream: 110 Ninth Avenue (17th Street), (212) 212-5503.
Mary makes an intense glazed lemon cake decorated with candied rind and fresh lemon leaves.
The back-to-basics theme was rather undone by the showstopper challenge: a glazed mirror cake.
But it's clear to me there are about a million ways you can screw up a glazed mirror cake.
Desserts were all highly rewarding, especially the smooth-as-silk yogurt cheesecake with spring berries; glazed coconut cake with passion fruit, lime and basil; and, my favorite, a sweet and satiny coffee crème brûlée with almond biscotti.
10) Flour and Flowers Get some of St . Louiss best doughnuts at World's Fair Doughnuts (1904 South Vandeventer Avenue, 314-776-9975), where Terry Clanton turns out a variety of classic glazed and cake doughnuts (try the bestermilk ones, 47 cents each) while you watch; his wife, Peggy, helps out andoughnutshe counter.
My Special Blend arrived scalding hot, served in silver with a quilted mitten to protect my hands, accompanied by a blistering pot of water to reinfuse the leaves, as well as fresh lemon slices, a little pitcher of milk, and a lovely hunk of glazed orange cake.
The menu features 18th-century favorites like cream of peanut soup; salamagundy (mixed salad with eggs, anchovies, pickles, spinach and sorrel); "frykacy of chikin" (chicken fricassee); Connecticut River salmon; corn pudding; plantation rice (buttered rice with pignoli and pistachios, mace and pineapple chutney) and a glazed orange birthday cake.
