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  • boccone dolce bites

    boccone dolce bites

    For July 4th last year (yes, I’m 6 months behind on posts) I made bite-size boccone dolce. I hadn’t remade this recipe since I posted it in 2015, but did recall that the meringue moistened up really quickly, so I made the components ahead of time and had a DIY boccone dolce set-up when dessert… Read more

  • cookies and cream cake

    A cake that looks like a baseball! Sports! Heh. Made this for a friend’s birthday a few months ago, a small cookies and cream cake, with swiss buttercream frosting (separate post). The cake was pretty moist. Cookies and cream buttercream was good, but I think could be a bit sweeter like a real Oreo. Overall,… Read more

  • whole wheat croissants

    This was an experiment to see if I could make whole wheat croissants. From doing web research, it seemed like it was not recommended, because whole wheat has less gluten and is generally less heavy, so croissants don’t turn out fluffy and light. I would agree with that, but maybe it was worth the slightly… Read more

  • ricciarelli

    HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Ok, so. Josh says these are his favorite cookies that I’ve ever made. I think that’s saying a lot, considering. These ricciarelli (not sure how to pronounce this… “rich”-ee-uh-relly? “rick”-uh-relly? Any Italians in the house?) were inspired by Arizmendi’s, but chewier, with more orange zest. These are gluten free!! Super chewy because… Read more

  • HBD! cake (no recipe)

    I made myself a (fake) birthday cake, and liked the decoration so posting it here! My forever go-to moistest chocolate cake recipe, with whipped chocolate ganache frosting. Not for the feint-of-heart chocolate lovers. One more pic after the jump. Read more

  • method – roll cake

    A roll cake! My favorite treat from an Asian supermarket is the coffee flavored roll cakes. But I try not to buy them because that means finishing the entire thing in a few days… I think this was pretty successful! Maybe overbaked the cake just a tad, but relatively easy assembly with fun serving 🙂… Read more

  • strawberry almond muffins

    This is off-season, but that’s what I get for archiving a bunch of half-finished posts. Well, you get what you get, readers! (All two of you. Hi.) To be honest, I feel like these muffins were too moist. Maybe I should have baked them a little past set. I mostly needed to find something to… Read more

  • method – ice cream cake

    I’ve made a couple of ice cream cakes over the years, and my method is improving. But I think I’ve got a pretty solid method (and ice cream ratio) figured out now! So here it is. Read more

  • baking lately

    Recently I’ve been baking from the archives: OG chocolate chip cookies, ginger molasses cookies, arizendi scones and of course holy grail chocolate cake. I did get a chance to make marshmallow frosting again so I finally fixed that volume note. Also, I finished my giant bottle of vanilla extract and bought a new one from… Read more

  • manresa

    Another new series to provide more filler posts! If I can actually remember to take pictures of my food (apparently I’m very un-Asian), I’ll post all the fancy pants desserts I eat when I go to fancy pants restaurants. Missing from this archive was our experience at Adega (smoked chocolate cake??? It was goddamn delicious.… Read more

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