Plumcake alle Carote (Italian Carrot Cake)
Set aside everything you ever thought you knew about carrot cake. The American version could not be more antithetical to Italian-style pastry: ultra-sweet, dense, slathered in cream cheese frosting. Now, before I go any further, lest you think I’m a carrot cake heretic, I’d like to offer my full support and advocacy for American carrot […]
Cardamom-Pistachio Carrot Cake
I’ve been MIA for a long time… I can explain. I kind of, ummm, moved to Italy. I really did it– I’ve been dreaming about it for about a decade in various forms, and some days I still can’t believe I’m here in Florence. Preparing for the move was quite literally all-consuming for months, on […]
Sweet Potato Rye Bundt Cake
Sometimes a girl just needs a heads-up. Sometimes a cake is so unexpectedly perfect and fabulous, and you have no idea what you’re about to bite into because it looks like a regular cake-colored cake with a dusting of powdered sugar and no other ceremonial visual cues. In fact, you might even wonder what it […]
Vanilla-Apple Cider Bundt Cake
Every October I’m torn between two existences: my desire to embrace the cooling season, the harvest foods, the upcoming Halloween witchiness, and the slowing down and coziness of the end of the year… But my work life is the complete opposite and pulls me in the other direction by necessity. As a school counselor, it […]
Knafeh Cheesecake
Among the many things happening at this time of year as we collectively hurtle towards the summer is the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the summer grain harvest and commemorates the Jewish people receiving the Torah on Mount Sinai after their exodus from Egypt. This joyful occasion is ushered in by gathering with loved […]
Butternut, Olive Oil, & Bittersweet Chocolate Cake
I know it’s mid-December, which means it’s wayyy into Christmas season… but I’m not fully there yet. My Fall baking is always delayed because October is a hellscape of raving mad work hours every year, leaving very little time for apple cakes, pumpkin bread, and other warmly spiced autumnal delights. So I’m rarely ready at […]
Apple Cake with Sage Caramel
I…. wrote something? I did! I cannot believe how many months have utterly disappeared into the Covid abyss since my last blog post very early in 2021. I thought I would write so much during those quieter months at home when I had more time to bake, but somehow in the chaos of everything going […]
Spiced Persimmon Ginger Cake
Apparently I have suddenly become a persimmon person. This was not a thing that I expected, now or frankly ever. I had precisely zero encounters with persimmons until about a month ago, which I was perfectly okay with. They have never looked appetizing to me, and I’m sorry, what-now? I have to wait until they’re […]
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 the kitchen much more than usual– I was positively delighted at this silver lining of the unfathomable global crisis that had suddenly taken hold. Of […]
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 was born) for a year, open to longer if the right opportunity presented itself. That plan did not work out due to a number of […]
