Sweet take on veggies

Kids refuse vegetables? Let them eat cake Douglas Drenckpohl is out to change the way people think about vegetables. First he worked on vegetable baby foods. Then it was pureed vegetable soups, then vegetable ice cream. Now he has tested recipes for vegetable cakes.

Easy Lemon Ice Box Cake is a family favorite

It's almost impossible for me to converse without going off on a tangent -- or five or six.

Just desserts

All-dessert restaurants and all-dessert bars opened shop five years ago in Paris, New York and Barcelona, but Manila has only recently dabbled in this sort of dessert culture. Still, the metros dessert bars are centered on a single product, like ice cream, or gelato, or cake and cookies, rarely on various kinds of desserts in one go.

Smore the merrier

For most of us, the smore is really a blast from the past. With just three ingredients -- chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow -- its one of the first things many of us learn how to make. You dont even need a kitchen to make them, just a long stick for your marshmallow and a roaring fire over which to toast it.

Recipe: Coca-Cola Cake

Dorothy Charron from St. Augustine, Fla., was looking for recipe from many years ago for a moist chocolate cake that had Coca Cola as an ingredient.