We had our friends Matt and Sean over for dinner, and the pressure was on. They love food. They live in San Francisco and are used to eating at some of the best restaurants around. My goal was to make something delicious but still easy enough for me to enjoy their company. I decided on [...]
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Larry got a couple of decent photos of these cookies immediately after I put them together, but I decided to show a later image so I don’t have to describe the horrors that are happening in my kitchen right now. Despite my love of all things caramel, alfajores aren’t my favorite cookie. It’s the sandwich [...]
I just love Bundt cakes. And pair a Bundt with copious amounts of butter, rum and black pepper, and I’m in heaven. This cake doesn’t disappoint. It’s got a dense, moist crumb that has all of the qualities of a good rum – slightly sweet and aromatic, with a hint of molasses – without being [...]
This is the second time I’ve made black & white cookies. The only commercial version I’ve ever had are the ones from William Greenberg Desserts in NYC, so I don’t have a large body of knowledge to draw from when it comes to rating how these cookies stack up. Ironically, despite my lack of black [...]
I was happy to see something relatively simple on this week’s Baked Sunday Mornings schedule. And Larry and I both love key lime pie. This is an interesting twist on the traditional key lime pie. I approve of the pretzel crust – it’s a little salty, and the flavor works really well with the tart [...]
I think it’s official: I don’t like lemon shaker pie, and neither does Larry. I’m positive this is a great version – the Baked crust is always phenomenal, and the recipe instructions to blanch (optional, but I did it) and sugar the lemons first does a good job of reducing the bitterness. The resulting filling [...]
These cute little sandwich cookies use the same sweet filling as the Salt-N-Pepper Sandwich Cookies. Funny, I liked the filling with those cookies, but I thought it was a tad too sweet with these. The cookies are simple to make, and have a surprise ingredient – malted milk powder. It makes them strangely good and [...]
My first thought when this recipe came up on the Baked Sunday Mornings schedule was “meh, another banana bread”. Always full of promise, but it rarely delivers. This recipe had one thing going for it – honey. I’m crazy about honey, and I especially like to bake with it. After careful consideration, I decided to [...]
Black and white cookies aren’t something we see on the West coast. I’ve only had them in New York, and only at William Greenberg desserts – so that’s my only point of reference. Now that I think of it, I don’t understand why there aren’t black and whites at bakeries here in California. It’s not [...]
We took a savory turn for Baked Sunday Mornings this week. I like focaccia a lot, but I was skeptical because of all the stuff on top. I tend to like my focaccia plain, maybe brushed with melted butter and lots of salt. This really didn’t take a lot of effort, and the dough is [...]
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