Baked Sunday Mornings: Pistachio White Chocolate Cheesecake
It was cheesecake– my first baking love. It’s hard to remember that time so long ago when my kitchen was not filled to the brink with couverture chocolate, cake pans, various kinds of flour, and countless jars of sprinkles! Despite my mother being a wonderful cook, I had little interest in kitchen activities (uhhh, besides eating) […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Dolly’s Doughnut
Hellloooo, coconut– I missed you. You know how sometimes there’s an ingredient that you love, but don’t use all that much, and then when you do use it, your love for said ingredient smacks you in the face? That’s me and coconut. It’s not something I grew up eating, and in fact, I was possessed of the […]
A Sweet Italian New Year: Cannoli Pound Cake
Happy 2016! I hope everyone has enjoyed this holiday season and eaten some fabulous food. 🙂 Every year I pretend that I’m going to take it easy on the baking in January, but I guess there’s no point in such delusions, now is there? Let’s be real– I’m going to frolic in sweet, decadent, delicious desserts […]
Rum & Spice & Everything Nice: Eggnog Sandwich Cookies
I am a nice Jewish girl who loves her eggnog. I honestly can’t recall when eggnog came into my life, though it was definitely later on. It wasn’t something I was familiar with as a kid, and the name was most certainly a turnoff. But at some point someone must have thrust a glass in […]
Have Yourself a Boozy Little Xmas: Whiskey & Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies
I cannot remember the last time I made chocolate chip cookies. I seriously have no idea. I’ve been so consumed with learning advanced pastry skills over the past several years that I have rarely stopped to revisit that all-time icon of home baking. For shame! Sometimes you need to throw back to a simpler time when cookies solved all of […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Brown Butter Apple Cranberry Galette
Oh my, this is one pretty pie. I mean, galette— we’re getting a little fancy for Thanksgiving at Baked Sunday Mornings this week. Though actually, I guess it just *feels* fancy because galettes are of French pastry origin. Really, a galette is quite rustic with its wild and crazy free-form shaping. I love baking lots of different things, […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Individual Baked Alaskas with Vanilla & Coffee Ice Cream
I’ve made a lot of desserts in my life. I mean, A LOT. There have been countless batches of cupcakes, cookies, brownies, layer cakes, and all manner of other treats in and out of the oven– some great, some mediocre, and yes, some were disastrous! At this point, it’s not that often that I’m tasked […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Purple Velvet Cake (aka Gonzo Cake)
Although I’ve always loved to write, I have to admit that I am embarrassingly lacking in the literature department. My familiarity with Hunter S. Thompson goes as far as watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on a date in 1998 and falling asleep… Not sure what that says about my intellectual depth, the guy I was […]
Gettin My Jam On: Strawberry-Rhubarb Rugelach with Oatmeal Streusel
I only discovered rhubarb a couple of years ago and didn’t get a chance to work with it last spring, so I wanted to make something special with it this year. I tried my hand at this Rhubarb Mousse Cake, which came out okay, but I wasn’t blown away by it, mostly because I’m a […]
Unleavened Heaven: Matzah Tiramisu Cake
This year, I wasn’t able to host or attend a Passover Seder, so I wasn’t planning on baking for Passover. I was content scrolling through loads of Instagram food porn including flourless chocolate cakes, coconut macaroons, and various nut-based treats (all of which are leaps and bounds more appetizing than the Passover “cake” mixes and rubber […]
