Baked Sunday Mornings: Chocolate Chip Cookies

It’s not often that I say this, but… this week, baking made me sad. I take my chocolate chip cookies very seriously, and I want them to be a certain way. When they don’t turn out that way after several attempts, I get all cranky-pants. Thus was the situation this week with the Chocolate Chip Cookies from […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Peanut Butter Pie with Cookie Crust & Easy Fudge Sauce

I’ve said before that I’m pretty indifferent on the combination of chocolate and peanut butter; I like them each separately, but together they generally elicit a big ‘meh’ as far as I’m concerned. However, I was actually looking forward to making this Peanut Butter Pie with Cookie Crust & Easy Fudge Sauce for Baked Sunday […]

Cacio e Pepe Knishentashen

I know Purim is technically over. But my friends in Israel said that everyone is still celebrating through Saturday, so I decided that I’m going to keep blogging about hamantashen until it’s no longer socially acceptable. Except this post is a little different. I’ve always thought savory hamantashen would be super interesting, but it wasn’t […]

Salted Cacao Nib Brownie Hamantashen

It’s hard to believe how quickly this year between Purim holidays came and went. Last spring, I was frantically planning and packing for a huge move halfway across the planet. In the middle of all that came hamantashen season, as it always does at this time. The previous year, I had discovered the almond shortbread […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Upstate Cheesecake

It all started with cheesecake. Way back circa 2002, a young woman of, let’s say, 24, made a cheesecake that wasn’t half bad. And then another, and another. And then she tried cookies and cupcakes. And layer cakes! And macarons! And tarts! She fell in love with butter, sugar, and flour, and the magical things […]

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 in the middle). Am I a bit dramatic? Maybe. Am I wrong? Nope. The red velvet trend of about 8 years ago gave rise to […]

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 we have on the schedule this week for Baked Sunday Mornings, it looks very easy and unfussy… and it should be! I mean, what’s complicated […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Oatmeal Cherry Nut Cookies

Sometimes I’m a creature of habit. Certainly with my baking, I’m constantly trying new techniques, recipes, and ingredients, but sometimes when you find a particular cookie/pie crust/frosting/ brownie/etc. that checks all your boxes of deliciousness and whatever else you’re looking for, you just don’t need another version. While I’m always open to experimentation, that’s how […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Millionaire’s Shortbread

It’s a beautiful thing when you make one of your favorite bakery treats at home and they turn out exactly like you remember at the bakery. I’ve been visiting BAKED on every trip to New York City since 2009– it’s like my once per year (occasionally more!) pilgrimage to the bakery that has made such a […]

Baked Sunday Mornings: Tuscaloosa Tollhouse Pie

I finally did it. In 6+ years of baking and blogging, I had never lost photos… until now. In the madness leading up to my move to Israel in June, I frantically rushed to finish a number of recipes for various blog projects, and because I had a bunch of dough in the freezer that […]