Stellina Sweets

Baked Sunday Mornings: Almond Green Tea Cupcakes

As I’ve started my hectic school year after more than a year off, I’m feeling very nostalgic this week for some of the lovely, more peaceful moments spent in Israel […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars

Let me introduce you to PB&J living its best life. […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Stout Milkshake

Sometimes you just need to bring the boys to the yard. You know, for milkshakes and all. Although BAKED specializes in baked goods (obviously), their first cookbook from ten years […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins

I’ve been staring at a blank screen for hours. I […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Sour Cream Coffee Cake with Chocolate Cinnamon Swirl

I’m crawling to the finish line. I’ve just completed a […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Pecan & Almond Chocolate Toffee

Happy Easter, peeps! (Get it? I’m sorry, that was terrible.) […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Chip Cookies

It’s not often that I say this, but… this week, baking made me sad. I take my chocolate chip cookies very seriously, and I want them to be a certain […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Peanut Butter Pie with Cookie Crust & Easy Fudge Sauce

I’ve said before that I’m pretty indifferent on the combination […]

Holidays

Cacio e Pepe Knishentashen

I know Purim is technically over. But my friends in Israel said that everyone is still celebrating through Saturday, so I decided that I’m going to keep blogging about hamantashen […]

Chocolate

Salted Cocoa Nib Brownie Hamantashen

It’s hard to believe how quickly this year between Purim holidays came and went. Last spring, I was frantically planning and packing for a huge move halfway across the planet. […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Upstate Cheesecake

It all started with cheesecake. Way back circa 2002, a young woman of, let’s say, 24, made a cheesecake that wasn’t half bad. And then another, and another. And then […]

Cakes

Red Velvet Cheesecake Swirl Bundt Cake

I have to admit… I am extremely picky when it comes to red velvet. It can be wickedly, amazingly good, or it can be tragically, horridly bad (or something bland […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Lemon Loaf

Sometimes recipes that seem so docile and unassuming provide more drama than I’d care to revisit. If you consider, say, the Lemon Lemon Loaf from BAKED: New Frontiers in Baking that […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Oatmeal Cherry Nut Cookies

Sometimes I’m a creature of habit. Certainly with my baking, I’m constantly trying new techniques, recipes, and ingredients, but sometimes when you find a particular cookie/pie crust/frosting/ brownie/etc. that checks […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Millionaire’s Shortbread

It’s a beautiful thing when you make one of your […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Tuscaloosa Tollhouse Pie

I finally did it. In 6+ years of baking and blogging, I had never lost photos… until now. In the madness leading up to my move to Israel in June, […]