Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Chip Cookies
It’s not often that I say this, but… this week, baking made me sad. I take my chocolate chip cookies very seriously, and I want them to be a certain way. When they don’t turn out that way after several attempts, I get all cranky-pants. Thus was the situation this week with the Chocolate Chip Cookies from […]
Salted Cacao Nib Brownie Hamantashen
It’s hard to believe how quickly this year between Purim holidays came and went. Last spring, I was frantically planning and packing for a huge move halfway across the planet. In the middle of all that came hamantashen season, as it always does at this time. The previous year, I had discovered the almond shortbread […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Oatmeal Cherry Nut Cookies
Sometimes I’m a creature of habit. Certainly with my baking, I’m constantly trying new techniques, recipes, and ingredients, but sometimes when you find a particular cookie/pie crust/frosting/ brownie/etc. that checks all your boxes of deliciousness and whatever else you’re looking for, you just don’t need another version. While I’m always open to experimentation, that’s how […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Millionaire’s Shortbread
It’s a beautiful thing when you make one of your favorite bakery treats at home and they turn out exactly like you remember at the bakery. I’ve been visiting BAKED on every trip to New York City since 2009– it’s like my once per year (occasionally more!) pilgrimage to the bakery that has made such a […]
Triple Sesame Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Happy 2019, friends! I hope January is treating you well so far. And I know we’re all supposed to be eating salads and carrots n’ stuff, but I’m over here making cookies, and I’ll be honest, I have no intention of stopping. I like to post a sweet-and-salty recipe around New Year’s each year because […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
Autumn in the Middle East is… different. This is the first Fall season of my life (okay, since I was a toddler) not spent somewhere that gets the familiar pre-holiday chill in the air, at least a little color on the leaves, and the beginnings of Christmas gearing up. In Israel, temperatures are still in […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Monster Cookies
Sometimes I’m wrong about cookies. This could be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on the cookie situation at hand. I was not especially excited to make these Monster Cookies for this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings recipe; not that there was anything wrong with them per se, but they just didn’t speak to me. Now […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Brewer’s Blondies
Sometimes you just need a little something comfortable and familiar. I’m still getting used to living in Tel Aviv, which is in some ways a cosmopolitan city, and in other ways, the Wild Wild (Middle East)West. I’m still trying to figure out where to find some of my basic baking ingredients, as mentioned in my […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Hazelnut Cinnamon Chip Biscotti
Hi. I haven’t blogged in something like 6 weeks, which I don’t think has happened in the entire 5.5-year lifespan of Stellina Sweets. But I have a very excellent reason! I have been feverishly preparing and packing to move abroad (read = NOT FUN), and I’m finally here in Israel, where I plan to spend the […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: BAKED Bars… with Double Halva
Seven-layer bars. Magic bars. Kitchen-sink bars. In other words, bars in which you can toss whatever delicious, sweet trinkets are in your pantry– basically we can’t go wrong here. Besides their incredible layer cakes, probably my favorite items at BAKED in New York City/Brooklyn are their bars. They make incredible PB&J Bars, Caramel Coconut Bars, […]
