Hi, I’m Vanessa. Half-French. Half-American. All Foodie.

I’m a home chef who learned much of what I know cooking with my mother in France, but also studying at Peter Kump’s cooking school, now the Institute of Culinary Education in New York.

This is my new site where I am slowly bringing over hundreds of recipes from chefdruck.com. This is the rebirth of my testament to a life of feasting.

15 years of content takes a long time to migrate. Please enjoy the gradual relaunch of French Foodie Mom: a recipe repository.

Let the feasting begin again!

Warm Chocolate Pudding Cake

Childhood food memories have a special power and hard to recreate but this recipe comes close to my favorite childhood chocolate cake from the now defunct Tootsies Restaurant in Notting Hill in London. They served it in a wooden salad bowl, filled with steaming, crumbly and moist hot chocolate cake. It oozed with chocolate sauce and was, of course, topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Nothing could beat that chocolate pudding cake perfection.

Vanessa Druckman 3/9/25 Vanessa Druckman 3/9/25

Chocolate Souffle Cake: a Delicious Gluten-Free Dessert

This chocolate souffle cake is a great dessert to serve when you have gluten-free dinner guests and it’s also a great addition to a Passover seder. It’s rich and oh so chocolatey. Definitely lick the bowl good.

Vanessa Druckman 10/31/24 Vanessa Druckman 10/31/24

Homemade Fudge Brownie

Brownies are intensely personal. Edges or centers. Fudgy or Cakey. Bitter or sweet. Everyone has an opinion. This recipe may not be your idea of the perfect brownie, but it makes me pretty happy. The texture is definitely cake rather than fudge, but the flavor is intensely chocolatey. But there’s something for both camps in the final product, as the edges are crispy but the middle is soft and moist. cake, yet fudge, with a crispy upper crust. This brownie is a uniter, a bringer of people together.

Vanessa Druckman 10/4/24 Vanessa Druckman 10/4/24

Oreo Truffles Even a Kid Will Love

These Oreo Balls are the truffles I wish I’d reached for as a child. They’re also the type of treat that will be the talk of your cookie exchange and the perfect little something to give to your neighbors. They’re incredibly easy to make as they require no baking.

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Just a Simple Little French Cake: Fondant au Chocolat

French cooks, just like American ones, have recipes they whip off without thinking, even dessert recipes. This recipe for Fondant au Chocolat comes together in five minutes and has six ingredients, but the moist and intensely chocolate cake is definitely worthy of being served at the fanciest French restaurant.

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French Crepes for my American Kids

Like many French foods, crepes sound fancy and difficult, but you could have them on the table faster than you can boil pasta. Just throw 4 ingredients in a food processor, pulse a half a dozen times, and get cooking.