Double Chocolate Irish Cream Babka
If I was in charge of March, I would decree that St. Patrick’s Day dinners should be heartily enjoyed all month long. This Irish affair would flow with corned beef, colcannon, boxty, shepherd’s pie, and god I would have Irish breakfast every single day. And of course what would follow all of these fine Irish […]
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Cake
If you know anything about Passover desserts, you know that they can be a challenge and we often have to compromise to uphold the rules of being Kosher For Passover. So imagine my delight when I came across an amazing (and beautiful) dessert last year from Bon Appétit that yielded a flourless chocolate cake so decadent and […]
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 this day, but poppyseed… nope, no thank you, blech. Also, if you throw in a chocolate-filled one, I’m definitely in, no questions asked. Other jams, […]
Black Sesame Coconut Babka
So far in 2018, I’ve been babka-ing hard. Ever since I made Chocolate-Halva Babka at the end of last year, I have been hitting the babka dough every chance I get, which is still not as often as I’d like, considering that it’s a 2-day process and as a blogger, I also have to take natural […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Blood Orange Olive Oil Bundt Cake
Blood orange season makes me so happy. Those beautiful orange skins blushing with hues of red that give way to dark, sweet-tart citrus flesh… I think it’s such a special fruit. I’m not generally any sort of orange enthusiast, but when it comes to blood oranges, all of a sudden I’m looking for any excuse to […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Butterscotch Pudding Tarts
Sometimes the second time’s the charm. I was excited to see Butterscotch Pudding Tarts from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking on the Baked Sunday Mornings schedule this week because I had made these years ago and was underwhelmed, and I always meant to try them again but never got around to it. I wish I’d taken notes– I […]
Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel
Happy 2018– I hope your year is off to a positive start! Did you have a salad this week? Okay good, so we can get back to business. I mean, I do feel a renewed push to eat healthy every January, but mostly to balance out the sweets that I have no intention of giving […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Whiteout Cake
Winter White. There’s something so lovely and elegant about a white-on-white cake– simple, yet sophisticated. What a splendid way to close out 2017 for Baked Sunday Mornings. We haven’t made a layer cake in quite a while, and this Whiteout Cake is the first one we’re tackling from Baked: New Frontiers in Baking. This time of year always […]
Torta Sbriciolata alla Sicilia
What I wouldn’t give to celebrate the holidays in Italy one of these years! Italy celebrates countless festivals all year round (religious, cultural, national, regional, local– you name it), but I think nothing matches the merrymaking around December/January. In addition to various feasts before and during Christmas, Italians celebrate New Year’s in a big way, […]
Cranberry-Lime Pie
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, but THIS jewel-toned beauty attributes its vividness to cranberries and only cranberries! I have finally made the pie, and I appropriately fawned over its gorgeous […]
