Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Good Morning Sunshine Bars

People, if you don’t already know, it’s a good thing you’re reading this: CEREAL IS NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST. You’re welcome. The pinnacle of cereal-based delights, Rice Krispie Treats, was […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Devil Dogs with Malted Buttercream Filling

I had such a sheltered childhood. As an immigrant child, […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

I rarely crave pumpkin out of season; although I quite like it, it’s not generally one of my overarching favorite flavors per se– it does not keep me up at […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Brown Butter Snickerdoodles

I chuckle when I think back to the first time that I made brown butter, and I noticed little dark bits in my pool of melted butter. At first I […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Orange Almond Ricotta Cheesecake

I almost threw it away. I almost threw it away. […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Mile-High Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream

By definition, a recipe with the words ‘mile-high’ and ‘chocolate’ […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Whiskey Peach Upside-Down Cake

There are lots of peach-tastic things happening in my kitchen […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Lime Tarragon Cookies

I was really not expecting to like these. Or maybe I should say, I was highly skeptical. Licorice is one of my least favorite flavors in existence, and tarragon tastes […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Oopsy Daisy Cake (aka Milk Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cake)

I finally did it. Good god. After a number of […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Malted Vanilla Milkshakes

Let me tell you… this recipe could not have come along at a better time. We’ve had triple-digit heat in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past week, and […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Mississippi Mud Pie (aka Muddy Mississippi Cake)

I’ve had over a month of pretty successful baking (no […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Malted Madeleines

“And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Alfajores

Alpha-what, now?! I speak 3 languages and consider myself pretty worldly, and I definitely make a point of investigating pastries any time I travel; and yet, I didn’t know what […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Triple Rum Black Pepper Cake

99 bottles of rum on the wall, 99 bottles of […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Sunrise Key Lime Tarts

This has been a very busy week of pastry research for me– simultaneously glorious and oh-so-gluttonous… As I was on Spring Break from work, I had the opportunity to play […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Aunt Sassy Cake

Updated photo from Spring 2013 remake– update at the bottom! Pistachios are such curious little nuts. I don’t think I’ve ever really examined them before– I generally just crack them open […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Cheddar Corn Soufflé

In preparing for this Cheddar Corn Soufflé recipe, I was a little nervous–all those wives-tales about soufflés falling if you make too much noise or turn on the light or […]

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