Stellina Sweets

Cannoli Sheet Cake

What a bizarre time these (how many?) months have been… When everything locked down in mid-March and life shrunk down to me and my apartment walls, I found myself in […]

Cakes

Cookie Butter Cheesecake

Just like that, two full years have come and gone. In June 2018, I left my life as I knew it, with the intention of moving to Israel (where I […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Sweet & Salty Brownies

I can’t believe it’s May 17, 2020. After more than 7½ years, today is my very last Baked Sunday Mornings post ever. I am in disbelief that I joined this […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

It’s sort of blowing my mind how quickly the weeks in quarantine fly by and blend together. I generally feel that way in busy normal times anyway, but it feels […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Malted Crisp Tart

I feel like a broken record when I say, “I can’t believe I’ve never baked [x]” from one of the BAKED cookbooks. I’ve been baking out of them for so […]

Chocolate

Blonde Chocolate Coconut Macaroons

Don’t let the Mainschewitz Passover Industrial Complex ruin your Passover. Homemade coconut macaroons can be yours so quickly and easily that you’ll never look back. I was never enamored by […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Flourless Chocolate Cake

Normally I would advocate for throwing flour into my cake batter (kind of a no-brainer, right?), but in the right ratios, the magical combination of chocolate, eggs, sugar, and butter […]

Cakes

Guinness Stout Cake

I’m not generally one to drink by myself at home. I’d rather eat my calories any day of the week, especially dessert. But right now in Coronaland, days and calories […]

Cakes

Green Tea Rhubarb Pudding Cake

I think it’s safe to say that St. Patrick’s Day 2020 will go down in history as the saddest/strangest/quietest St. Patrick’s Day in modern times. No parades, no drunken bar […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: S’more Nut Bars

I take my s’mores very seriously. Today it became apparent that maybe I need to take it down a notch, seeing as how I almost set a fire in my […]

Cookies & Small Treats

10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 10: Pistachio Nutella Halva Hamantashen

So this is it– the culmination of 10 days and […]

Holidays

10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 9: Cheddar Jalapeño Knishentashen

Here’s where I’m at in my life right now: I […]

Chocolate

10 Days of Hamantashen, Day 8: Peanut Butter Pretzel Chocolate Hamantashen

You know what’s been missing from “10 Days of Hamantashen”? […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Almond Granita

Please pardon this interruption of my regularly scheduled hamantashen posting. I’m pausing to bring you… a little sliver of Italian summer. Among our very last recipes for Baked Sunday Mornings is […]

Cookies & Small Treats