Baking Special: Magic Cakes, Muffin Madness and Computer Cookies
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Milk Street Radio
4.2 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode, we share a few of our favorite moments about baking. Cheryl Day—cookbook author, co-owner of Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, and now Milk Street Radio guest co-host—reveals her tips for perfect biscuits, cakes and cookies. Plus, a computer designs the ultimate chocolate chip cookie; Chris Kimball and Dan Pashman consider the muffin; and is it magic, or is it Maple-Whiskey Pudding Cakes?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Mil Street listeners, we're taking our show on the road. Please join us for a special live taping of Melk Street Radio at the Art of Cheese Festival in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:09.6 | We'll be at the landmark Orphium Theater on Saturday, September 27th. I'll be hosting cheese trivia, taking your cooking questions with chef Tori Miller, handing out samples of some of the best cheese in the state, |
| 0:21.3 | and my favorite part, even get my fortune read with a block of cheese. You will not want to miss that. |
| 0:27.3 | Tickets are on sale now at artofcheasefestival.com one more time, |
| 0:31.6 | art of cheesefestival.com, and we'll see you there. |
| 0:39.6 | This is a special episode of Milkstreet Radio. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Christopher Kimball. |
| 0:45.3 | Today we're talking baking. |
| 0:47.6 | Later in the show, Cheryl Day will share her secrets to delicious desserts. |
| 0:52.0 | Her journey to become a true Southern baker wasn't always straightforward. |
| 0:56.1 | When she moved to Savannah, |
| 0:57.5 | her customers said her cupcakes were not sweet enough. |
| 1:02.1 | When we first opened, |
| 1:04.1 | I was making an Italian meringue buttercream |
| 1:07.9 | on my cupcakes, |
| 1:09.8 | and they were not well received at all. How does a southerner tell |
| 1:15.9 | you they don't like your cupcake? Is it subtle? I didn't think it was that subtle actually. It was |
| 1:22.4 | kind of like, you know, what do you use exactly? And you know, there's the old saying, bless your heart. And if you live in the |
| 1:31.9 | South, you know what that means. First up, it's my interview from 2019 with computational scientist, |
| 1:42.4 | L. O'Brien, who programs computers to write recipes. |
| 1:48.1 | Elle, how are you? |
| 1:49.6 | I'm doing excellent. How about you? |
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