Andes – In the Kitchen with Polly

White Mint-Dark Chocolate Layer Cake

PollyDecember 6, 2021August 28, 2025

I know, I know, this isn’t a great picture. Please don’t let that put you off though! This is a delicious cake, one of my best! I found the original recipe on epicurious.com the year that my twins graduated from high…

Ice Creams & Sorbets Sweets

Andes Mint Chip Ice Cream

PollyJuly 10, 2010August 13, 2025

You know I couldn’t make just one, didn’t you?! Here’s ANOTHER really, really good Philadelphia Style ice cream! Philadelphia Style ice cream is, without a doubt, my choice for ice cream—it tastes lighter and it’s sooo much simpler to make.…

About Me

It's all about the recipe—really, it is! I have amassed quite a collection of recipes from my favorite cookbooks, food magazines, friends, the Internet, and more recently my adult daughters. I test every recipe I post. Some I've been cooking for years, decades even, and a few I have made only a few times. I don't post mediocre recipes. I don't post good recipes. I post GREAT recipes! When I find a recipe I LOVE, I can't wait to share it. I started In the Kitchen with Polly on January 01, 2010, a joint venture between myself and my non-cooking but most excellent webmaster, proofreader, technical goddess and all-around bestie, ratty (not a joke—ratty is her chosen nickname—her Mama didn’t do that to her, she did it to herself!). Last year we hit a snag—the website went up in monstrous flames. It took a long time to sort out what happened and even longer to recreate what was lost. Hundreds of pictures gone, and every recipe we posted (300+) over the last 14 years had to be reformatted, many pictures retaken. It's done now though, and we are back! I like this brighter version :) Scroll through! Find something you like, and let's get cooking! There’s a search button and there are also tags to click on if you want to find a recipe for a specific food. If you need it, the print button is on the preview page and at the end of each post.

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