A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
I am in State Fair mode for the next two weeks – I need to lock in on getting all my bakes practiced. So when my brother asked if I was bringing snacks to the Sharknado screening in the park, I decided to impulse bake these and get another one crossed off the list. I’ve…
The math concept I use probably the most in my Real Life is Lowest Common Denominator. It’s a useful one for baking. If you want to make a smaller batch of something, divide all the ingredients by the LCD. Which is typically the smallest amount of something that you can’t break down any further. Usually,…
I have aired my complaints with the “Dubai Chocolate” trend by now. I won’t bother you all with them again. I have just come to terms with the fact that chocolate and pistachio are a wonderful flavor combination, and we didn’t need Dubai to tell us that. So I will be calling everything “chocolate pistachio”…
We celebrated my sister’s birthday a week early, when my family was all in town. And then, of course, for the actual day… we had to do a mini celebration again! Which meant: two cakes! She requested a chocolate-forward cake the first week, and then this strawberry birthday one the second week. Two very different…
This Mohnkuchen is no joke, when it comes to the poppyseeds. It will re-define what a poppyseed cake means. As I think it should! Poppyseeds are the main event. Mohnkuchen is the German name for it, and as with many German desserts, it’s loaded with almond flavor, and it’s not too sweet. I remember learning…
These cookies were a bit of an impulse bake. I had some leftover chocolate crumb from this birthday cake, and I wasn’t about to let it go to waste! I was cooking up all sorts of ideas in my head but eventually just landed on putting them in some cookies instead of chocolate chips. Easy…
We celebrated my sister’s birthday a week early this past weekend. Which, naturally, means that she’ll be getting two birthday cakes. When I asked her what she wanted, she easily came up with two requests. This one was a brainstorm of “something very chocolate,” that eventually led to a craic pie frosting. I was only…
These cookies were a true trial-and-error process. A proper research-and-development project. Three iterations, and I finally got them to a place that I think will be good for the State Fair. I first made these with olive oil, and they turned out… fine. I used a vanilla butter extract that I don’t think meshed well…