spring desserts

Fit for a Ballerina: Rhubarb-Vanilla Pavlova

I’m nothing, if not determined. I’ve been working on a number of more complicated recipes recently to stretch my skills, and at some point pavlovas caught my attention. I’ve never […]

Essentials

Sticky Sweet Springtime: Rhubarb-Vanilla Sauce

If you could distill the brightness, sweetness, and exuberance of springtime fruit into a gooey, drippy, vanilla-flecked sauce, you would do so, yes? (Hint: There’s only one right answer.) I […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Strawberry Supreme Cake

It’s summer berry season, friends, and I could not be more excited about that! You know how sometimes it doesn’t feel like Fall until you taste that first bite of pumpkin, or […]

Cakes

Right Side Up: Rye & Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake

Soooooo, I am hardcore fangirling over rye flour right now. (Yes, those are the sorts of things that bakers fangirl over.) For that matter, I’m fangirling over rhubarb, but I […]

Cakes

The Bee’s Knees: Pull-Apart Honey-Cola Cake with Lemon-Vanilla Bean Crème Anglaise

I live in California. What we call “winter” is a […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Sunrise Key Lime Tarts

This has been a very busy week of pastry research for me– simultaneously glorious and oh-so-gluttonous… As I was on Spring Break from work, I had the opportunity to play […]

Cookies & Small Treats

Sunshine in Your Mouth: Meyer Lemon-Brown Butter Bars

A week ago, I had a different world view: our […]

Creamy Desserts

Pucker Up, Buttercup: Super Lemon Curd

Last week, I was gifted with some gorgeous Meyer lemons, which inspired me to make lemon bars for the first time. I was also interested in experimenting with lemon curd, […]

Stellina Sweets

Sweet Morsels from My Kitchen