Baked Sunday Mornings: Buttery Pound Cake with Salty Caramel Glaze
But soft, what cake through yonder window smells so tasty? It is Buttery Pound Cake with Salty Caramel Glaze from Baked Occasions— I’m sure Juliet would approve! Pound cake is buttery, dense, rich, and unbeknownst to me until now, best served with a gooey salted caramel lid. The cake is quite good on its own, but ohhhh-so-much-better slathered with caramel. Really, […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Classic Carrot Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but… I really wanted to make a layer cake. There was a time not so long ago that I dreaded the Baked Sunday Mornings assignments for layer cakes. So much work, so much time, so much potential for things to go wrong… But I’ve come a long way since those […]
Love & Chocolate Always Win: Boston(Strong) Cream Cupcakes
BostonStrong: the mantra adopted immediately by the city after the horrific bombings at the 2013 Boston Marathon, killing 4 people and injuring 264. I had no words… I spent 3 semesters in college at Boston University and fell madly in love with this spirited, proud, quirky, historic, beautiful, and downright charming city. (The use of ‘wicked’ […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Classic Crème Brûlée with Caramelized Brown Sugar
It has been quite a while since I’ve been able to participate in my bi-weekly Baked Sunday Mornings blogs due to my recent move and wedding planning, and it feels so goooood to be back! Truth: I was not that excited about this recipe. When I look at a dessert menu and see crème brûlée listed, […]
Love Letter to a Bakery in Red Hook: The BAKED Brownie
What says ‘I love you’ better than deep, dark chocolate? To me, the purest confectionary expression of love is a classic treat: BROWNIES. There are a million brownie recipes out there. Some are fudgy, some are cakey, some are heavenly, some are downright terrible. You can stop looking now; this is the best one. My […]
Ultra-Rich & Creamy Bittersweet Chocolate Frosting
I am an equal-opportunity chocolate whore. I love me some cake, cupcakes, cookies, ice cream, candy, mousse– you name it. (Though oddly, I’m not the biggest fan of truffles– I’m complex and mysterious like that.) However, there is nothing quite like a decadent chocolate frosting– the kind you just want to eat out of the […]
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 […]
Slice of Summer: Peach-Vanilla Bean Lattice Pie
I wish I had a charming, nostalgic story to tell you about pie; something like, ‘I used to watch hungrily over the edge of the countertop when I was a little girl as my grandmother lovingly crimped her pie dough edges while humming’… but I don’t. I didn’t eat much pie growing up, and it’s […]
Go Ahead, Flake My Day: Super Flaky All-Butter Pie Crust
Anyone else avoid making pie dough because it seems hard? K, I’m glad it’s not just me. Pie dough seems complicated, fussy, and prone to disaster, but I’ve learned recently that it doesn’t have to be. Now, I’ve definitely made my share of faulty pie crusts– too hard, too soggy, shrunken in the pie dish, […]
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 […]
