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, […]

Salted Cookies & Cream Rice Crispy Treats

I heard it was National Oreo Cookie Day. On March 6th, I shall henceforth rejoice in the name of Nabisco’s magical midnight-hued cookies, which I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions that I *adore*. I typically don’t pay a lot of attention to these food-themed days, or more precisely, I don’t usually know about them […]

Pop Tart Hamantashen

My whole life, I’ve more or less been a creature of habit when it comes to hamantashen. I grew up eating apricot-filled ones, which I will happily gobble up to this day, but poppyseed… nope, no thank you, blech. Also, if you throw in a chocolate-filled one, I’m definitely in, no questions asked. Other jams, […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Black Forest Chocolate Cookies

Hey, you. Yeah, you. Do you like puddles of chewy chocolate? The kind that are barely held together with a little flour, just enough to qualify as a cookie, but are mostly chocolate? Three kinds of chocolate, even? If any of that sounds like something you want to be associated with, you may want to […]

Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel

Happy 2018– I hope your year is off to a positive start! Did you have a salad this week? Okay good, so we can get back to business. I mean, I do feel a renewed push to eat healthy every January, but mostly to balance out the sweets that I have no intention of giving […]

Blonde Chocolate Coconut Shortbread Bars

If you happened to ask Santa for blonde chocolate, today is your lucky day. The first time I tried Dulcey, the caramelized white chocolate made by Valrhona, I felt what I can only describe as a religious experience, and I can’t be sure, but I think I heard little angels singing somewhere in the distance. […]

Cinnamon Cajeta Rice Crispy Treats

Merry Christmas! Are you procrasti-baking today? If you need a last-minute quick dessert for your holiday gathering later today, you’ve come to the right place. Amidst posts about Italy and smashed rugelach and cookie butter cake, I almost lost sight of the fact that I’m still working on a number of rice crispy treat variations. […]

S’mores Rugelach Smash Cookies

Sometimes it just depends how you look at things. What might seem like a disaster at first is actually a gift of serendipity. I was trying to make s’mores rugelach for Chanukah, and I ended up with a shambles of flattened, messy, busted-up puddles. But… OMG THEY TASTED SO GOOD. I didn’t have the heart […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Sour Lemon Scones

Among the chocolate, cinnamon, ginger, maple, peppermint, and other wintery flavors around this time of year, I was surprised that Baked Sunday Mornings was making these Sour Lemon Scones from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking this week. To be honest, I was slightly annoyed at first because I am all up in the holiday flavors and I’m not […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Heartland Turtle Bars

I joined Baked Sunday Mornings in Fall 2012, when the group had already baked through about ⅔ of BAKED’s second book, Baked Explorations. Although I baked most of the remaining recipes, there were quite a lot that I had missed and intended to bake eventually. If you’ve been following, you know that we’ve now baked all the […]