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 certainly the first such phenomenon of this nature that I’d ever had as a child, and it’s always held a special place in my heart. […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Devil Dogs with Malted Buttercream Filling
I had such a sheltered childhood. As an immigrant child, I did not experience some of the classic American treats that most of my peers knew and loved. Things like peanut butter and jelly and milkshakes were foreign to me, and I stayed wary and suspicious of these unfamiliar delicacies until I grew old enough […]
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 night with recipe ideas or stark, raving mad obsession like chocolate or caramel. (That’s normal, right?!) However, almost like clockwork, on the Autumnal Equinox, all […]
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 thought something had fallen into my pan, so I tried to pick it out with a spatula. But more and more bits formed, and I […]
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 kinda like licorice, so the odds were not in my favor. But as is often the case when I take a risk for Baked Sunday […]
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 a morsel of the cake. No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and […]
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 Alfajores were before embarking on this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings recipe. Pronounced ‘alfa-HOR-es’, these South American “caramel”-filled sandwich cookies are featured in the Caramel chapter […]
Sunshine in Your Mouth: Meyer Lemon-Brown Butter Bars
A week ago, I had a different world view: our education system is badly in need of an overhaul; babies should wear hats with animal ears; all people should be able to get married; Nicki Minaj is the worst American Idol judge ever; and fruit desserts are just okay. Little did I know that my […]
Tastes Like Luck: Chocolate Shamrock Sandwich Cookies
Got luck? I love shamrocks. They make me happy– any time of year, really. The symbol of the shamrock is of course associated with Ireland today, and has come to be synonymous with St. Patrick’s Day. The word comes from the Irish-Gaelic seamróg, meaning “little clover”. Legend has it that St. Patrick used this 3-leaf […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Malted Milk Sandwich Cookies
These cookies almost didn’t get made. Again. Not because I don’t like them or because I didn’t want to or because I didn’t have time… They almost didn’t happen because, well, the dough is SO DAMN GOOD that I was tempted to forgo that whole “baking” part and just eat the dough on its own… […]