Unlike an office job, where a resume and an interview can be enough to get on the payroll, applying for a culinary position usually demands a "try out". You pack your knife roll (or your icing spatulas and pastry tips if you're a pastry chef like myself), and head into a strange kitchen to be handed your assignment. More

This buttery, rich white chocolate bread pudding is doused in a luscious white chocolate sauce More

Corralled within the white chocolate-painted, cookie picket fence lie four layers of feathery lemon cake that are layered with ribbons of blackberry preserves and a white chocolate icing. Sitting on top: a lavish pile of midnight blue, fresh blackberries. More

This beautiful lemon layer cake is accented with blackberry preserves, white chocolate icing, and wafer cookies. More

This recipe is adapted from Lake Placid Lodge's recipe for Triple Chocolate Cookies with Pistachios which appeared in Gourmet Magazine, May 1998 Notes: A white chocolate bar can be substituted for the white chocolate chips. Just chop into coarse chunks.... More

When I was in my early twenties, weekend nights with my hometown buds were built on Fuzzy Navels, White Russians, and throwing down some sweet moves at a club called Let's Dance in Poughkeepsie, NY. After hours of drinking and sweating it out, some serious munchies were in order. We'd hit up one of the few spots in the area that was still serving. We'd sometimes land at Denny's, but if there was too much of a line, we'd head over to the 84 Diner. The atlas-sized menu spanned the cuisine of the world, but I only had eyes for one thing: the bright red cherry cheesecake that was spinning around in the revolving pastry case. The massive slice of sweet cream cheese, canned-cherry-topped, graham cracker-y goodness hit the spot and readied me right for bed. More

Old school cheesecake, with a white chocolate twist. More

This recipe was supposed to come out much sooner. I developed it nearly a month ago, and it was good. Really good. So good, in fact, that in a fit of white chocolate lust I downed the whole batch in a sitting, the thought of pausing for a moment to take a photo about the farthest thing from my mind. So here we are, now in 2012, and writing this paragraph is slow going because I keep stopping to scrape the last edges of ice cream from my tupperware. Suffice it to say, I like this recipe. A lot. More

Trader Joe's makes the best white chocolate for this ice cream. It's extremely creamy with strong notes of vanilla, chocolate, and herbs. More

I absolutely cannot resist normal sweets kicked into Holiday Mode. You can make the candy cane version or the white chocolate version, or you can do the right thing. You can make white chocolate covered candy cane Faureoxs. More