I was craving a Hostess cake, and that literally was what inspired me making these. I specifically wanted a chocolate cake stuffed with a marshmallow, with a chocolate ganache glaze. So I figured, especially since I had a lot of spare egg whites lying around, that I could use one of the egg whites to…
Tag: Chocolate
Chocolate Olive Oil Cakes
Olive oil cake is one of those kinds of cakes that you are starting to see more and more of recently. Almost every cafe in Los Angeles sells an olive oil cake, or some variation on one. However, I don’t really see chocolate-olive oil cakes often – funnily enough, olive oil gelato with chocolate and…
Boston Cream Pie Lamingtons
Lamingtons are a popular Australian dessert/snack. Traditional lamingtons do not have a filling, and are usually just cubes of cake, glazed with chocolate, and rolled in coconut. In my case, I wanted to combine them with another favorite dessert of mine, being the Boston cream pie. Boston cream pie features a vanilla cake, a custard…
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…
Mint Chip Gelato Sundae
Mint chip ice cream is hilariously enough, my earliest memory. My mom, when we first immigrated to America, would take me and my sister to the Baskin Robbins nearby where we lived in Torrance(hilariously, that Baskin Robbins is STILL in business to this day, I now as an adult live walking distance from there, and…
Assam-Chocolate Layer Cake
This cake is kind of a callback to another chocolate-Assam recipe I made years ago. Unlike the other version, this one features a whipped Assam tea ganache buttercream coupled with a fudgier, denser chocolate cake. I was inspired by the salted caramel chocolate cake I had at Republique, which was rich and almost brownie-like in…
S’mores Pie
This was on my to-make list for a long, long time. And what tipped the scales and caused me to finally bake a S’mores pie was that I had a surplus of Biscoff cookies and graham crackers. And I figured, if this is not a sign from the universe that I needed to make a…
Cajeta-Duvalin Layer Cake
This recipe was meant to be a celebration of my friend, Frances. Frances, or as I lovingly call her, Francois, is a longtime friend of mine, dating back to when we worked together at the Portofino Hotel and Marina in Redondo Beach in 2018. We were in the same department, and we were basically partners…
Cajeta Banoffee Pie
Banoffee pie is a British dessert consisting of a buttery shortbread crust that is smeared with dulce de leche, slices of fresh banana, cream, and chocolate. It kind of reminds me of Million Dollar Shortbread, if you have ever had that before, but with bananas. Which is to say that it is delicious. For my…
Brown Butter Toffee Chip Cookies
I occasionally love to dabble and adjust my cookie recipe, because I love how tweaking an ingredient or a technique in the recipe can result in dramatically different kinds of cookies. In the case of these cookies, I was trying to go with this super toasty, brown butter-forward cookie studded with chocolate, cacao nibs, and…
Miso-Milk Tea Chip Cookies
These cookies are on the verge of being an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink scenario – there is assam tea powder, miso paste, brown butter, and about four kinds of chocolate. As I was making these cookies, I started out with making a giant vat of brown butter, threw some miso into that, and as I was whipping that…
Lilikoi Chantilly Cake
Contrary to what you may think, “chantilly” is a term for two different pastry components. The classic French version is just a sweetened whipped cream. However, in Hawaii, it means something a bit different. I was surprised a few years ago when I was in Oahu with my friend Lauren that she introduced me to…
Trio of Milkbread Shio Pan
So I had zero clue what shio pan was until the beginning of 2024 when I saw someone make shio pan and referring to them as “salt bread”. This whole time, I just thought that they were chubby croissants, and as someone who has studied Japanese for 5 years and lived in and visited the…
Vegan and Gluten-free Chocolate-Kumquat Cupcakes
I was lucky enough to receive a bunch of fresh kumquats from a dear friend, Celina, and I wanted to do something fun with them. I love pairing kumquats with chocolate, and it just made sense to go that route. It has been a minute since I made a cupcake, and I wanted to make…
Stuffed German Chocolate Cookies
So these cookies are like the German chocolate cake-flavored cousin to the cranberry bliss bar snowballs I made a while ago. I just fell in love with the idea of making a super soft cream cheese cookie dough, stuffing it with a gooey filling, and rolling the whole thing in coconut to the point where…
Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Fondants
These fondants came about because I got a request to make “Reese’s Cup Bread”. Apparently there was a TikTok trend of someone making essentially banana bread, but using Reese’s Cups instead. Now, I love chocolate and peanut butter as much as someone who loves chocolate can love them together, but I do not really have…
Mini Croissant Cereal
Back in 2020, one of my pandemic hobbies was perfecting croissants. Fun fact, I used Buttermilk Pantry’s recipe to learn how to make them. Admittedly, it’s been four years since I last made croissants, since it took over a month for me to successfully make a batch, and I found out that using that Kerrygold…
Peanut-Crunch Oat Cookies
These cookies were inspired by a combination of junk food, overpriced movie theater concessions, and oats(just to make me feel less guilty about the fact that I used literal chocolate bars to make these). I feel that with oatmeal raisin cookies, the part that upsets me is biting into one, and being met with a…
Souffled Nutella Crostata
Back when I was in high school, one of the recipes I made that was surprisingly well-received by my classmates was a Nutella crostata. I say surprisingly because when I came up with this recipe, it was mostly out of boredom. I still remember this because a classmate who really went out of his way…
Matcha and White Chocolate Shortbreads
So back in December, I made these gorgeous chocolate chip and cacao shortbreads that were encrusted in Indian sugar(gifted to me by the amazing Shari Mukherjee from season 10 of Masterchef!). I was obsessed with that crystalized aesthetic and wanted to bring that back for another type of cookie, this time, matcha-flavored. So I was…
Freddy's Harajuku 