Pretty Things

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 […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Milk Chocolate Malt Ball Cake

Layer cakes, I MISSED YOU. It has been almost a […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Almond Green Tea Cupcakes

As I’ve started my hectic school year after more than a year off, I’m feeling very nostalgic this week for some of the lovely, more peaceful moments spent in Israel […]

Cakes

Red Velvet Cheesecake Swirl Bundt Cake

I have to admit… I am extremely picky when it comes to red velvet. It can be wickedly, amazingly good, or it can be tragically, horridly bad (or something bland […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Lemon Loaf

Sometimes recipes that seem so docile and unassuming provide more drama than I’d care to revisit. If you consider, say, the Lemon Lemon Loaf from BAKED: New Frontiers in Baking that […]

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. […]

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Stellina Sweets

Sweet Morsels from My Kitchen

Pretty Things

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

Baked Sunday Mornings: Milk Chocolate Malt Ball Cake

Baked Sunday Mornings: Almond Green Tea Cupcakes

Red Velvet Cheesecake Swirl Bundt Cake

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Lemon Loaf

Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Drop Cake