To conclude my three-part Legends Z-A Old Fashioned Donut series, and to celebrate Pokemon Day, we have the Delta Old Fashioned Donut(or doughnut, depending on how you choose to spell it, but I’m usually in the doughnut camp, not the donut camp). Able to summon the Sky High Pokemon Rayquaza, the Delta Old Fashioned Donut…
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Omega Old Fashioned Donut
With Pokemon Day coming up, I wanted to celebrate with my second of three Pokemon Legends: Z-A-inspired Pokemon doughnuts! In the case of this recipe, we are going with the Omega Old Fashioned Donut, inspired by Groudon, the Continent Pokemon, from Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Omega Ruby. Groudon is a giant red dinosaur-looking creature, said…
Alpha Old Fashioned Donut
With this week leading up to the always much-anticipated Pokemon Day, I figured I would celebrate the week(in hopes that Generation 10 is right around the corner), by making three Pokemon-themed doughnuts, inspired by the most recent game, Pokemon Legends: Z-A, specifically from the DLC, Mega Dimensions! Now, I’ve been obsessed with the Legends Z-A…
Tonka-Strawberry-Goat Milk Sundae
Whenever I think of Valentine’s, the first thing that comes to mind are strawberries. What I adore about strawberries as an ingredient is that they add a bright red color, pleasant sweetness, and some tartness to contrast rich, creamy flavors and textures. However, and these have been rising in popularity especially over the past few…
Nutella Zebra Banana Bread
These banana breads were the end-result of me roasting several of them in the oven for hummingbird cake, only to realize that I roasted three times the needed amount. I didn’t want to store these, nor did I want to throw them away, so in the spirit of 2020 baking memories that I did not…
Persimmon Tang Yuan
Whenever I think of persimmons, I remember my earlier childhood – our backyard had white guava, white peach, and fuyu persimmon trees, so depending on the time of year, we had fresh fruit to eat! Persimmon in particular are an interesting fruit, because depending on their ripeness, their flavor and texture can completely change. With…
Custardy Hot Chocolate Milk Tea
Even though it’s after Christmas, I would feel like a real Grinch if I didn’t put out a hot chocolate recipe of some sign off the year on. In this case, I have been seeing a ton of people posting videos of piping marshmallow mixture around the edge of your cup and torching that, then…
Icebox Cake Gingerbread House
For the holidays, I figured I just had to do something akin to a gingerbread house. Now I won’t like, I suck at decorating them. I admire those who can do all of the fancy isomalt or gelatin sheet window-pane tricks, because that requires a lot of precision, patience, and skill. But in my case,…
Chocolate-Hazelnut Mille Feuille
I usually refrain from making puff pastry from scratch frequently, because it is such a time-consuming process. Chilling, resting, and rolling a butter-laden dough pretty much summarizes how you make puff pastry. Because you have to rest and chill the dough between rolling it out, it takes at least 90 minutes to make a laminated…
Spiced Chocolate Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc is a French chestnut dessert, usually consisting of chestnut cream, piped in a string-like matter to resemble the peaks of a mountain, and finished with a dusting of confectioner’s sugar to effect snow tops. Mont Blanc is literally French for “white mountain” for that reason. While the dessert is French in origin, it…
Chocolate-Hazelnut Langue de Chat
Langue de chat are one of my favorite cookies to eat. If you ever had a Milano before, it’s basically like that. Thin, melt-in-the-mouth cookies sandwiching a filling, usually chocolate-based. In this case, I went with a chocolate-hazelnut langue de chat. I love Nutella, and often get jars of it from Germany whenever we go…
Flourless Chocolate Cakes
A little earlier this year, I was tinkering around with a flourless chocolate cake recipe. Fast-forward a few months, and I was trying to think of a fun way to make a chocolate fondant-like situation. I envisioned this dainty but tall chocolate cake, similar to a molten lava cake, but firmer. I wanted this to…
Pumpkin-Maple Flan
For a while now I’ve been on and off experimenting with doing purins and flans using pumpkin/kabocha flavoring of some kind now. Fun fact, but purin(Japanese pudding, which is basically flan, or a sweet egg custard with a caramel layer) was the first thing I ever learned how to bake. We did not grow up…
Chocolate-Pumpkin Cheesecake Brulee
Way back when I first started as a baker, one dessert concept I had was a baked chocolate-pumpkin cheesecake cupcake, inspired by the Halloween colors of black and orange. While Halloween obviously is over(how we’re already in November, I really don’t know), I still wanted to make a pretty little pumpkin-chocolate cheesecake number, just in…
Savory Pumpkin Biscuits
Canned pumpkin puree is definitely convenient to use in the sense that you don’t have to break down, roast, and puree a fresh pumpkin, saving you hours of time there. That being said, recipes can be a little wonky in terms of how much pumpkin puree you need vs how much there is in a…
Aomori Apple-Ricotta Loaf Cakes
This recipe came about because I still had a spare Aomori apple lying around, and I wanted to use it to make something with the leftover ricotta cheese I also had. Yeah, I mentioned it somewhere before, but maybe 1 in every 4 of my recipes on this blog came about from me needing to…
Miso Caramel Apple Dumplings
First time I had apple dumplings was living in Boston; my friend Tina made them for us when we were having a baking night together back in freshman year of college. I literally had no idea what an apple dumpling was, come to find out, they were these parcels of baked dough, stuffed with caramelized…
Chocolate-Hazelnut Fondant
It felt like forever ago that I made a chocolate fondant, so I wanted to make one as we start getting closer to the holidays, and I wanted to make some more festive or celebratory desserts. Chocolate fondant is comforting, because it is a decadent chocolate lava cake-type of situation. In this case, I went…
Pumpkin Pie Taiyaki
Ever since I bought a taiyaki pan, I only ever used it once. And not even to make traditional taiyaki batter! Hilariously, back in college, I did make taiyaki a few times when I borrowed a classmate’s pan. However, I did not own a pan of my own until 2023, and even then, I totally…
Cereal Milk Cake Doughnuts
Cereal milk always takes me back to working at Milk Bar. I’ve been on an on-and-off air fryer cake doughnut kick lately, so I figured, why not try making some air-fried cake doughnuts using cornflakes? While traditional cereal milk involves toasting cornflakes then steeping that into milk, you can consider this recipe a cheat-method of…
Freddy's Harajuku 