stellina sweets

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

Irish Cream Brownie Hamantashen

Every year after the holidays, I think things are going to quiet down on the baking front… but then there are fresh, bright, citrusy delights to make in January… then […]

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 […]

Cookies & Small Treats

Biscoff Rice Crispy Treats

I’m sneaking this in at the very end of 2021… what a year. Personally, the first half of the year was extraordinarily good to me– lots of stars aligned for […]

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

Spiced Persimmon Ginger Cake

Apparently I have suddenly become a persimmon person. This was not a thing that I expected, now or frankly ever. I had precisely zero encounters with persimmons until about a […]

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: Sweet & Salty Brownies

I can’t believe it’s May 17, 2020. After more than 7½ years, today is my very last Baked Sunday Mornings post ever. I am in disbelief that I joined this […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

It’s sort of blowing my mind how quickly the weeks in quarantine fly by and blend together. I generally feel that way in busy normal times anyway, but it feels […]

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 […]

Chocolate

Blonde Chocolate Coconut Macaroons

Don’t let the Mainschewitz Passover Industrial Complex ruin your Passover. Homemade coconut macaroons can be yours so quickly and easily that you’ll never look back. I was never enamored by […]

Baked Sunday Mornings

Baked Sunday Mornings: Flourless Chocolate Cake

Normally I would advocate for throwing flour into my cake batter (kind of a no-brainer, right?), but in the right ratios, the magical combination of chocolate, eggs, sugar, and butter […]

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 […]

Baked Sunday Mornings