Baked Sunday Mornings: Peanut Butter Butterscotch Cookies
Peanut butter lovers, rejoice! You have a new favorite cookie. But don’t thank me; thank Baked Occasions, which has again, as is often the case, reinvented a classic dessert to make it just a little better than what we were eating yesterday. In this case, they’ve tackled peanut butter cookies on the premise that the old-school […]
Fit for a Ballerina: Rhubarb-Vanilla Pavlova
I’m nothing, if not determined. I’ve been working on a number of more complicated recipes recently to stretch my skills, and at some point pavlovas caught my attention. I’ve never made one, nor have I eaten very many in my life, but suddenly I had to figure out this elegant, swirly, marshmallowy dessert. Then I […]
Sticky Sweet Springtime: Rhubarb-Vanilla Sauce
If you could distill the brightness, sweetness, and exuberance of springtime fruit into a gooey, drippy, vanilla-flecked sauce, you would do so, yes? (Hint: There’s only one right answer.) I came up with this luxurious Rhubarb-Vanilla Sauce sort of by accident, and I’m gonna say it’s one my favorite accidents in mayyyybe my whole life. I […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Oreo Chocolate Cupcake Shakes
Oreos. Cupcakes. Chocolate ice cream. Three of my favorite things in the world, all blended up into one delicious beverage– I fully support this vision of liquid sustenance. Baked Sunday Mornings is taking on the recipe for Salted Caramel Chocolate Cupcake Shakes from Baked Occasions this week, which sounds great in its own right, but the […]
Puff Pastry Pillows: Spicy Shakshuka Tarts
I love shakshuka and I love puff pastry… so I guess this was bound to happen eventually. I don’t usually cook on this blog, but sometimes we have to rethink things when inspiration takes hold, and this was a recipe that I really wanted to share. I absolutely *adore* savory pastry; in fact, contrary to popular […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Old-School Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
Educators of America, rejoice! At long last, the end of 2016-17 is rapidly approaching– the summer beckons with its lazy mornings and free time and glorious baking projects that I don’t have time for between August and June. Please join me in a resounding: Hallelujah! But first– cookies. Old-School Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies, to be exact. In Baked Occasions, […]
Open Sesame: Rye Rhubarb Tahini Tart
GAH, I love this season for baking. (Okay, there isn’t really a season that I don’t like, but bear with me.) Finally the rhubarb and cherries are here, and gorgeous berries are signaling the imminent arrival of summer. I’m still fairly new to rhubarb, having only discovered it a few years ago, and every year I’ve […]
All Buttered Up: Chocolate Chip Toffee Shortbread Bars
For bakers who like to tinker, accidents and failures are a common enough occurrence– mostly annoying, sometimes infuriating, but sometimes triumphant! In the best cases, they are great learning experiences that inform our future baking. (Like that’s any consolation when I’m throwing out four sticks of butter, but yeah, afterwards. 😉 ) Shortbread is one of […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Black Forest Cupcakes
It’s May, which means CHERRIES, and this makes me splendidly happy! All year I dream about cherry season– the day that those sweet, red, stemmed delights appear at the farmer’s market! And every year I squeal with glee when I finally see them in early May; it never gets old. I was so glad that Baked […]
Twice as Nice: Double Sesame Banana Bread
You’ve seen one banana bread recipe, you’ve seen ’em all, right? Okay, that was a lie– a big, fat, terrible, vicious lie. While a classic banana bread is perfectly scrumptious, I’ve found that my favorite recipes are the ones with a complementary flavor woven in, particular this peanut butter-chocolate version. I have not minced words about my feelings on bananas […]