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November 2016

THANKSGIVING. I imagine this must be every baker’s favorite holiday. Not only are its staple flavors unbelievably cozy (e.g., cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin), but friends and family are generally more willing to indulge on a sweet treat (or four) around this time of the year.

The weekend before Thanksgiving, I made my way to Boston for the annual Harvard-Yale football game, which alternates between New Haven and Cambridge every year. For the first time in almost a decade, Yale managed to tally a victory -- finally, a 2016 upset we can be happy about.

After The Game (a fitting moniker for the only athletic event the entire Yale community cares to attend on a regular basis), I flew directly from Boston to Indianapolis. To be perfectly frank, I’ve not considered Carmel my home for a long time. The only reason I care to visit during the holidays is to spend time with my parents and catch up with close friends. I’m a big believer that the most important aspect of a home is not the place, but the people.

That said, I’ll always consider Carmel my hometown, and at this point, I strongly associate it with our kitchen -- which feels enormous compared to our tiny, albeit well-furnished, kitchen in Manhattan. My parents grew up in China, where sweets traditionally take a backseat to savory dishes (e.g., General Tso’s chicken, Peking duck). Although she and my dad managed to assimilate in some aspects, my mom never hopped on the dessert train. This meant that when I started baking, we purchased many otherwise basic ingredients and equipment for the very first time: vanilla extract, baking powder, even parchment paper. Kind of wild, right?!

With almost a full week at home, I prepared a variety of goodies throughout my visit, from cinnamon swirl pancakes (not pictured) and pumpkin muffins for breakfast to baked s’mores and pumpkin pie cheesecake for dessert. Despite being the least seasonal of the lot, the s’mores were hands-down the biggest hit, as it features my family’s favorite ingredient: dark chocolate. The best part of this recipe is that it requires only a few basic ingredients and no fancy equipment. The bottom layer is a traditional graham cracker crust (with a nice pinch of salt to cut through all the sugar), which sits under a thick layer of homemade chocolate fudge, a container of marshmallow cream, and a smattering of jumbo marshmallows. The worst part was the wait (true of most desserts ugh). I had to pop this baby into the freezer twice: once after adding the chocolate layer, and again after topping it off with the marshmallows.

Once everything was assembled, I put it in the broiler for a couple minutes, and voila! We had yummy golden s’mores, and I didn’t even have to set up a bonfire. Now that is a victory everyone (even Harvardians) can be happy about.

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