Pretty Things

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

Cannoli Sandwich Cookies

Happy 2023, friends! Do you have bright, colorful, nutrient-rich salads and soups on deck for January? ME TOO, and I am so excited about them. And alsoooo… I’m still baking. […]

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

Toasted Sesame Pan-Banging Cookies

While sesame is not a traditional Thanksgiving ingredient, I will always associate this particular cookie recipe with Thanksgiving, gratitude, and transformation. Two years ago, which feels like so much longer, […]

Creamy Desserts

Basilicata: Crostata al Caprino (Italian Goat Cheese Tart)

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

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

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. […]

Creamy Desserts

Maltese Ricotta Pie with Honey-Lemon Syrup & Pistachios

We’re somehow wrapping up January, and while it would be […]

Breakfast Treats

Butternut, Olive Oil, & Bittersweet Chocolate Cake

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

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

Cannoli Sheet Cake

What a bizarre time these (how many?) months have been… When everything locked down in mid-March and life shrunk down to me and my apartment walls, I found myself in […]

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 […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Malted Crisp Tart

I feel like a broken record when I say, “I can’t believe I’ve never baked [x]” from one of the BAKED cookbooks. I’ve been baking out of them for so […]

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

Black Sesame Coconut Rugelach Spirals

I’ve always been one to dabble in different cultures. I was born in Israel, raised in California, studied in Boston and Paris, and I travel as much as I possibly […]

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: Coconut Snowball Cupcakes

Alllll the coconut. Give it to me. Is it possible to fall more in love with coconut over time? Because did I mention… I want all the coconut things. I’m […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Hot Velvet Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream

I know. Red velvet is so over. Like, WAY over. […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Marble Bundt Cake

Who else holds their breath every single time they unmold a Bundt cake? It doesn’t matter how many Bundts I make, how many years I’ve been baking, or which recipe […]

1 2 3 4 5 Older ›

Stellina Sweets

Sweet Morsels from My Kitchen

Pretty Things

Cranberry Pecan Bread

Basilicata: Crostata al Caprino (Italian Goat Cheese Tart)

Knafeh Cheesecake

Mexican Hot Chocolate Rice Crispy Hearts

Maltese Ricotta Pie with Honey-Lemon Syrup & Pistachios

Butternut, Olive Oil, & Bittersweet Chocolate Cake

Apple Cake with Sage Caramel

Cannoli Sheet Cake

Baked Sunday Mornings: Malted Crisp Tart

Guinness Stout Cake

Green Tea Rhubarb Pudding Cake

Black Sesame Coconut Rugelach Spirals

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon-Almond Meringue Tarts

Baked Sunday Mornings: Coconut Snowball Cupcakes

Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Hot Velvet Cake with Cinnamon Buttercream

Baked Sunday Mornings: Marble Bundt Cake