Whenever I think of my friend, Ellie, I think about how wonderful of a person she is. We have known each other since elementary school, became friends in middle school, sort of grew into different cliques in high school, but when we both went to college in Boston(her Boston College, me Boston University), our friendship…
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Cherry Garcia Shortbreads
Whenever I had baker’s block and am struggling to think of new dessert ideas, one thing I can always fall back on is ice cream flavors! I find that focusing on specific flavors or ingredients, and what I enjoy about those in the ice cream itself, is a great starting point for a new dessert…
Streusel mit Pudding Brioche
This dessert was directly inspired by my visits to the German Christmas markets – if you have never been or don’t understand the hype, imagine the Disneyland Ride “It’s a Small World”, but that’s what an entire square in Germany becomes during late November/all of December. It is a wonderful sight to behold, and one…
White Chocolate Mille Feuille
This recipe came about because I was randomly in the mood to make puff pastry from scratch. There are just those random days where I want a challenge, and making puff pastry is definitely one of those. Puff pastry is a kind of laminated dough, meaning you are folding butter and dough together to create…
Sourdough Shio Pan
Shio pan(or salt bread) is one of those Japanese pastries that I had a more recent relationship with, but one that I adore greatly. Soft, fluffy, vaguely croissant-shaped bread with a salty flavor, this was a great concept for me to use Horacio, my sourdough starter, in. Unlike with my previous shio pan recipe, this…
Olive Oil-Peach Galette
This galette is an homage to one I made over a year ago when I was visiting my friend Amanda in Austin! It featured a buttery crust with a frangipane filling and tons of juicy, roasted Fredericksburg(obviously I HAD to make a dessert with those for just the namesake alone) peaches perched on top. It…
Red-Stripped Mini Croissants
I did not have it in my 2024 bingo card that I would be making croissants again. The last time I tackled croissants this frequently was 4 years ago during the pandemic, when there was literally nothing else to do. Croissant dough usually takes a long time to make, since the dough is laminated, but…
Sourdough Black Pepper Biscuits
Biscuits are always a guilty pleasure for me. Flaky or fluffy, light, and buttery, all words I would use to describe the perfect biscuit. Back in college, I was fortunate enough to go to school in Boston, where Sweet Cheeks Q is located. Sweet Cheeks is known for their iconic biscuit, which is the size…
White Chocolate-Macadamia Sourdough Scones
If there was one quintessential childhood cookie for me growing up, it was the white chocolate-macadamia nut cookie from Subway(eat Fresh). Whenever we had field trips, my mom would get me a footlong Italian sandwich with one of those cookies, so I always looked forward to field trips for that very reason. Even as an…
Dark Chocolate-Dried Cherry Sourdough Scones
Now that I am officially a sourdough parent, I am always finding fun and new ways to use up my sourdough starter. One of those ways was by making scones. I was really just thinking about items that could be served in an afternoon tea, since a lot of those things are dough-based pastries or…
Chocolate Decadence Layer Cake
I am a firm believer that there is a chocolate cake for every occasion. The best occasion for this kind of recipe is if you want a chocolate cake that tastes like baked fudge. Now I have been mentioning the Ms. Trunchbull Chocolate cake a bunch of times on this blog, but this is very,…
Strawberry-Soy Milk Phyllo Pie
This phyllo pie is a variation on the apricot one I made a bit ago, this one featuring flaky homemade phyllo, Strawberry Inspiration coating, soy milk custard, strawberry gelee, and glazed strawberries on top. I have really fallen in love with the flaky phyllo fruit pies, because the filling is so interchangeable, as is the…
Dubai Chocolate Eggs
About a year ago, I had on my to-make list to do a knafeh-themed dessert, but where there was going to be an egg motif going on, with the kataifi(also called shredded phyllo) being used as like a nest around this knafeh-egg-thing. I never got around to doing it because life happened(i.e. my now ex-workplace…
Biscoff-Hazelnut-Brown Butter Cake
Back when I went to Berlin last December, one tasty little morsel we bought as a souvenir were these German hazelnut praline candies called “Toffiffee”. They were fun to stay out loud, a nightmare to type out, and were these caramel-nougat candies that contain chocolate and hazelnut. So in other words, delicious. However, we bought…
Lemon Marshmallow Rainbow Tart
I will admit, I procrastinated with my Pride dessert this year. Namely because I was almost not going to do one at all for 2024. I have made many a Pride dessert in the past, and while they were all tons of fun to conceptualize and admire after making them, the actual assembly of each…
Almond Tofu-Apricot Phyllo Pie
There are those moments where I have a culinary brain child that just hits on every single level of deliciousness and nostalgia, and this pie is 1000% that kind of recipe. Almond tofu is a popular Chinese dessert, made from Chinese almond powder(made from apricot kernels – it tastes exactly like almond extract, which does…
Mini Osmanthus and Peach Pies
This recipe came about because I saw peaches in the grocery store, remembered that peaches were in season, grabbed a bunch, and then realized that I actually needed to do something with said purchased peaches. The first thing that came to mind was doing this large peach pie with a pretty lattice on top, and…
Matcha Latte Cheesecake
I had an abundance of leftover matcha shortbread from a previous recipe, and while snacking on those is nice, I wanted to challenge myself to make another recipe entirely using the shortbread crumbs as a crust! I figured, why not blitz the shortbread into a fine crumb, then fold melted matcha white chocolate through that,…
Kecap Manis Kouign Amann with Peanut Caramel
I have been trying to make more laminated dough recipes this year, since I discovered the wonderfulness that is Costco purchasing my butter – the sheer amount of butter I can stock up means that I can tackle the more classically French, butter-centric recipes that I usually stayed away from to conserve my butter for…
Matcha Swirled Conchas
So I was not actually trying to make concha originally. These were going to be swirled matcha melon pan, but what ended up happening was that between how I was attempting to swirl my matcha and regular bread dough together and how my topping dough baked, I ended up with breads that looks like conch…
Freddy's Harajuku 