5 Delicious Dishes for Your Cinco de Mayo Menu + Dessert!

A taco bar is usually a go-to for Cinco de Mayo, but with some questions lingering around romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, crunchy gringo tacos piled with lettuce and cheddar cheese probably aren't the way to go this year. We've got five other delicious Cinco de Mayo recipes to enjoy on the day commemorating Mexico's…

ByMichelleMay 3, 20180Comments

The Easy Way to Make Lemon Elderflower Cake for the Royal Wedding

We're just a few weeks from the Royal Wedding. You've undoubtedly heard that Prince Harry and Meghan's wedding cake will be a lemon elderflower cake baked by Violet Bakery's Claire Ptak. It's not a flavor profile that most of us in the States are all that familiar with, but it's a well loved harbinger of…

ByMichelleMay 1, 20180Comments

Baking Dessert Recipes

GUINNESS CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH IRISH CREAM From Ottolenghi’s Sweet

There are about a zillion recipes for Guinness brownies out there. Some use store bought brownie mix, some go from scratch. This year I put all that aside when I saw the Guinness chocolate cakes with Irish Cream filling in SWEET by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. Without the recommended mini loaf pans, I turned…

ByMichelleMarch 14, 20180Comments

Recipes

Baked Chocolate Donuts with Strawberry Glaze

I make everything about food. So when I finished reading Jasmine Guillory's fantastic novel, The Wedding Date, one of the things I latched onto was the heroine's love for pink donuts with sprinkles. But these baked chocolate donuts (double chocolate even!) go above and beyond with not just a dip in pink glaze, but real…

ByMichelleJanuary 16, 20180Comments

Book Reviews Recipes

SMITTEN KITCHEN PRETZEL LINZERS WITH SALTED CARAMEL

You may have breezed past these Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel when you picked up Deb Perelman's latest, Smitten Kitchen EveryDay. When I did my first look at the book, they caught my eye, but weren't the first thing I made. The linzers are tucked in the back with desserts, right next to a bakery style…

ByMichelleDecember 9, 20170Comments

Baking

Hot Cross Buns or Not Cross Buns? The Choice is Yours

I'm known to bake hot cross buns any time of year, except maybe summer. Since Easter isn't a huge holiday for us, Good Friday usually sneaks up on me. This year, I'm ready. Over the last few years, I've tweaked a Donna Hay recipe and finally settled on it as my go-to. You can do a lot…

ByMichelleApril 12, 20170Comments

Baking Product Review

What Do You Do with Coffee Flour?

Food media first talked about Coffee Flour as a speciality product in 2015 and it’s just landed at Trader Joe’s, as part of a caffeine-fueled blitz of coffee-flavored products. I like the idea of coffee flour, but I’m just not sure it’s actually necessary if you’re able to cook and bake with wheat flour. In…

ByMichelleMarch 29, 20170Comments

Baking Dessert Recipes

Nantucket Cranberry Pie – It’s Really a Cake

During the holidays, Trader Joe's is a minefield of treats, from Peppermint Joe Joe's to chocolate advent calendars to Jingle Jangle candy-pretzel mix. You almost have to put on blinders to avoid filling your basket. In the frozen section, I stumbled on Nantucket Cranberry Pie, which looked a bit like upside down cake (theirs had…

ByMichelleDecember 12, 20160Comments

Baking Dessert Recipes

Brandied Cranberry Hazelnut Bars

Are you ready to put aside the pumpkin? Let’s get a move on. It’s cranberry time.

ByMichelleNovember 6, 20160Comments

Baking Dessert Recipes

Zucchini Cake with Ginger & Hazelnuts

I'm on a bit of a zucchini kick. For a vegetable that doesn't offer a whole heck of a lot of flavor on it's own, it's turning up on our table a lot these days. There was that simple zucchini salad last week, zucchini green chile fritters for dinner last night, and then this zucchini cake. NYTFood posted a…

ByMichelleJuly 26, 20160Comments

5 Delicious Dishes for Your Cinco de Mayo Menu + Dessert!

The Easy Way to Make Lemon Elderflower Cake for the Royal Wedding

GUINNESS CHOCOLATE CUPCAKES WITH IRISH CREAM From Ottolenghi’s Sweet

Baked Chocolate Donuts with Strawberry Glaze

Hot Cross Buns or Not Cross Buns? The Choice is Yours

What Do You Do with Coffee Flour?

Nantucket Cranberry Pie – It’s Really a Cake

Zucchini Cake with Ginger & Hazelnuts

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