Fruit Desserts

Cranberry Pecan Bread

Aside from turkey, on any given holiday table, my least favorite thing is very often the cranberry sauce. Perhaps I had one too many cloying canned versions as a kid, […]

Cookies & Small Treats

Sicilian Cuccidati (Christmas Fruit & Nut Cookies)

As you might remember if you’ve been following this blog […]

Cakes

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 […]

Creamy Desserts

Basilicata: Crostata al Caprino (Italian Goat Cheese Tart)

If you’ve read this blog in the past, you may […]

Cakes

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 […]

Cakes

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 […]

Cakes

Green Tea Rhubarb Pudding Cake

I think it’s safe to say that St. Patrick’s Day 2020 will go down in history as the saddest/strangest/quietest St. Patrick’s Day in modern times. No parades, no drunken bar […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon-Almond Meringue Tarts

Finally– the cover shot. We are so close to the end of baking through BAKED: New Frontiers in Baking, and therefore the end of Baked Sunday Mornings. (So many tears!!) And […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Lime Bars

Sometimes the simplest recipes feel like a triumph. Lemon curd is one of those basic baking things that I just do not have a good handle on; like, sometimes it […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Drop Cake

The top of my cake hierarchy reads something like this: chocolate, vanilla (with or without rainbow sprinkles), red velvet, pistachio, coconut– with minor changes in the order depending on mood. […]

Cakes

Deb’s Mom’s Apple Cake

I’ve been living in Tel Aviv for 3 months now, which in and of itself, blows my mind, but more importantly at the moment, I’m about to celebrate my first […]

Cookies & Small Treats

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 […]

Creamy Desserts

Last year, basically all of Instagram was mesmerized by Bon Appétit’s captivating Cranberry-Lime Pie, and for good reason. Edible things of this technicolor hue usually have food coloring in them, […]

Fruit Desserts

Apple-Maple Tart

I know. Pumpkin pie is supposed to be, like, the thing this week. I am fully aware of this, and yet, I refuse to conform. I’ve just never been a huge […]

Cakes

Tuscany: Torta di Mele (Apple Cake)

I’ve been writing about Italy for several weeks now (except for a little hiatus due to work craziness), and I know every place I write about is all amazing and […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Classic Apple Pie

In the Great Life Debate of cake vs. pie, cake pretty much always wins in my book. (Unless there is chocolate and/or caramel in the pie. Then we might have […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla Pastry Cream

My feelings about bananas are not a secret… suffice it […]

Cakes

Apple Orange Rye Honey Cake

We interrupt this regularly scheduled Italian Desserts blog post to wish you a Belated Shana Tova! If you celebrate the Jewish High Holy Days, I hope your Jewish New Year is off […]

Cakes

Amalfi Coast & Positano: Wild Strawberry Ricotta Cheesecakes

Everyone has their own idea of paradise, whether it’s a […]

Creamy Desserts

Pretty in Pink: Rhubarb-Raspberry Pistachio Tart

I can’t stop. I thought I was done with my rhubarb baking for the season, but I can’t help it. Apparently rhubarb grows like weeds in the Midwest (that’s a […]

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Stellina Sweets

Sweet Morsels from My Kitchen

Fruit Desserts

Cranberry Pecan Bread

Vanilla-Apple Cider Bundt Cake

Basilicata: Crostata al Caprino (Italian Goat Cheese Tart)

Apple Cake with Sage Caramel

Spiced Persimmon Ginger Cake

Green Tea Rhubarb Pudding Cake

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon-Almond Meringue Tarts

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Lime Bars

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Drop Cake

Deb’s Mom’s Apple Cake

Pop Tart Hamantashen

Cranberry-Lime Pie

Apple-Maple Tart

Tuscany: Torta di Mele (Apple Cake)

Baked Sunday Mornings: Classic Apple Pie

Baked Sunday Mornings: Banana Cupcakes with Vanilla Pastry Cream

Apple Orange Rye Honey Cake

Amalfi Coast & Positano: Wild Strawberry Ricotta Cheesecakes

Pretty in Pink: Rhubarb-Raspberry Pistachio Tart