This recipe is adapted from Dorie Greenspan’s Odile’s fresh orange cake in Baking with Chez Moi. Like all things in life, there are so many ways…
wheat stalk braid around the oval loaf This is a sad looking pain de campagne despite my best efforts. Worst bread I’ve ever made; I don’t…
I adore molten chocolate or lava cakes and have been collecting and saving the recipes. But I have never attempted to make them until now.…
An everyday cookie jazzed up and transformed into a holiday treat, imbued with seasonal theme, is what this stained glass cookie is all about. Ideal for…
I’ve been prolific with brioche postings. Who can resist playing with this rich, buttery, fine-textured, yeasted dough? When I find another glorious brioche creation, there won’t…
Putting fresh or frozen cranberries in a tart gives me pauses. Are cranberries too tart and acidic for sweet pastry? After baking along with Dorie Greenspan’s Baking…
Sometimes the best recipes are the simplest. This hazelnut baby cake is a good example of that. At first glance, it is a basic quick bread…
How do you like eating the beloved apple pie as finger food? Or if you like to touch and taste food in your hand, the way…
Any cakes that are made with buttery almond and chocolate get my attention. To make something resembling the natural stripes of a tiger is surely an…
The name is a mouthful and its identity, questionable. This recipe probably comes from the Alsace region in Eastern France adjacent to Germany. I don’t know…
This version of bostock, a Nancy Silverton’s recipe from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Julia, is made from brioche bread soaked in an orange syrup, spread with…
As seen in this brioche tart video on PBS, Julia Child got all choked up and was lost for words in a brief awkward moment as she and…
A darker “French baked” tart Cherry has been on my mind since that weekend in Washington DC when we set out to see cherry blossoms. The…
There is something ethereal about panna cotta amid the heat and humidity of summer. It’s cool, silky, light and rich, all at once. And holds its…
It’s all about the hump Medeleines are the French iconic small sponge cakes. Marcel Proust had a famous “episode of the Madeleine,” in his widely…