Holidays

Cocoa Halva Sesame Hamantashen

Every year since I did 10 Days of Hamantashen in 2020, I keep telling myself some version of, “I don’t need to make a bunch of flavors this year”, or […]

Breads & Doughs

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, […]

Breads & Doughs

Cinnamon-Eggnog Scones with Blonde Chocolate

I must say that I love the lazy “holiday hangover” days between Christmas and New Year’s, when you don’t know what day it is without thinking about it for a […]

Cookies & Small Treats

Earl Grey Shortbread Snowflakes with Blood Orange Glaze

We’re all still eating cookies, yes? This has been such […]

Cookies & Small Treats

Sicilian Cuccidati (Christmas Fruit & Nut Cookies)

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

Cookies & Small Treats

Latke Cookies

It is Day 6 of Chanukah 2022, and I have made precisely ZERO latkes so far during this holiday week. Eaten, yes; cooked, nope. I am planning to this weekend, […]

Chocolate

Double-Chocolate Peppermint Rice Crispy Treats

I’ve never been much of a peppermint person. With a couple of exceptions (here and here), it’s not a flavor that I generally gravitate towards in my baking or candy-eating. […]

Confections

Sesame Cashew Bars

I’ve wanted to visit Sofra outside of Boston for years, and somehow life + pandemic made it so that I didn’t visit my favorite U.S. city for over six years. […]

Breakfast Treats

Sweet Potato Rye Bundt Cake

Sometimes a girl just needs a heads-up. Sometimes a cake is so unexpectedly perfect and fabulous, and you have no idea what you’re about to bite into because it looks […]

Cakes

Knafeh Cheesecake

Among the many things happening at this time of year as we collectively hurtle towards the summer is the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which celebrates the summer grain harvest and […]

Chocolate

Irish Cream Brownie Hamantashen

Every year after the holidays, I think things are going to quiet down on the baking front… but then there are fresh, bright, citrusy delights to make in January… then […]

Chocolate

Mexican Hot Chocolate Rice Crispy Hearts

Does everyone else love rice crispy treats like I do, or do I have some sort of abnormal obsession? I love baking – cakes, cookies, tarts, all the yummy things. […]

Cookies & Small Treats

Biscoff Rice Crispy Treats

I’m sneaking this in at the very end of 2021… what a year. Personally, the first half of the year was extraordinarily good to me– lots of stars aligned for […]

Breakfast Treats

Butternut, Olive Oil, & Bittersweet Chocolate Cake

I know it’s mid-December, which means it’s wayyy into Christmas […]

Cakes

Cookie Butter Cheesecake

Just like that, two full years have come and gone. In June 2018, I left my life as I knew it, with the intention of moving to Israel (where I […]

Chocolate

Blonde Chocolate Coconut Macaroons

Don’t let the Mainschewitz Passover Industrial Complex ruin your Passover. Homemade coconut macaroons can be yours so quickly and easily that you’ll never look back. I was never enamored by […]

Cakes

Guinness Stout Cake

I’m not generally one to drink by myself at home. I’d rather eat my calories any day of the week, especially dessert. But right now in Coronaland, days and calories […]

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 […]

Cookies & Small Treats