Baked Dessert

5 Flour and Egg Recipes

For many of us, the best part of breakfast is eggs and toast. And who can blame us? Eggs are...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

The Year of the Snake, true to its nature, slithered in stealthily. Since I’ve been so busy lately, it almost...

Holiday Cookies For Sweet Paul Magazine

Happy December! We’re a month into a new lease in a new apartment and, while we’re still without a couch...

Pepe’s Cafe Key Lime Pie

Until Chris met me, he had never eaten a cherry tomato. Astounded upon learning this fact, I felt the need...

Pear And Blue Cheese Tart

Oops, an unintentional hiatus. And now an entire week has passed with hardly a check-in. Weeks like the last can...

Pumpkin Biscotti With Cranberries And Almonds

Apparently I’m on a pumpkin spree. Allow me to grin sheepishly and assure you that pumpkin puree season is almost...

Strawberry Rhubarb Ginger Crumb Bars

Is it still rhubarb season? I’d let a few stalks sit in the bottom drawer for so long that they...

Lavender Macarons With Honey Buttercream

Girls are… sugar and spice and everything nice. Lavender would fall into the latter category, and coincidentally, it makes me...

Nigel Slater’s Brownies

A quick appearance to say: these are the best brownies I’ve ever had. We all have different opinions on the...

Mixed Berries Galette

When we moved into our apartment in San Francisco, we bought a giant bookshelf and filled it to the brim...

Evelyn Sharpe’s Chocolate Cake

Valentine’s Day has long felt like an occasion for suckers, suckering poor couples out of paying exorbitant prices to observe...

Brooklyn Blackout Cake

A proper celebratory cake should consist of at LEAST three layers, am I right? Unless the two layers are really...