This big banana cake is no joke in terms of its size and the time commitment getting to the finish line. I spent the full day…
Chocolate/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ Middle Eastern
Rugelach with Classic or Cream Cheese Fillings | Baking with Dorie
Rugelach is popular in our neighborhood in the New York metropolitan area. You can find them in every grocery store. We often pick up a box…
The orange spice cake reminds me of the pecan-cranberry loaf we made last year around Thanksgiving. Fall theme, warm spices, quick one-bowl hand mixing and a…
5 ingredients or less/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ Fruit
Tarte Tatin | Baking with Dorie
I’ve made multiple attempts at tarte Tatin over the years, but haven’t been fully satisfied with the results. Every time I vowed to come back with…
breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ Nut/ quick cake/ year round
Morning Bundt Cake | Baking with Dorie
I want to have a piece of the morning bundt cake, together with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice and latte for breakfast. There is…
dessert/ foundation recipe/ Fruit/ quick cake/ scalable/ summer/ year round
Butter Cake with Peaches | The Reverse Creaming Method
These are the last-of-the-season peaches and you won’t find the sweet white and yellow peaches any longer until next summer. However, this recipe is good for…
autumn/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ featured/ Fruit
Apple Galette with Caramel Applesauce | Baking with Dorie
There are a few apple galettes I make: French country style, apple with calvados, or a tart with apple compote. The common elements are the sweet…
There are changes in the air: peaches are giving way to late-summer figs in the farmers’ market. I grab a few cartoons of black figs, some…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ summer
Strawberry-Rhubarb Squares | Baking with Dorie
Strawberry and rhubarb is a classic paring as well as a perfect summer dessert in the form of a cake. In this recipe in Baking with…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ quick cake
Chunky Blood Orange Cornmeal Cake | Baking with Dorie
The chunky blood orange cornmeal cake is the result of playing around with the combination of the whole blood orange and sumac. Both the citrus fruit…
It’s never too late to find a classic cookie that you instantly like. Hermits are New England natives which have been around since the late 1800s.…
The classic apple pie, of which the mulled-butter apple pie is a variation, has been an ongoing challenge for me. It’s a challenge to make a…
Szalotka is Polish dessert that I’ve never heard of. Dorie Greenspan, in her cookbook Baking with Dorie, speaks fondly about the Polish szarlotka which reminds her…
The brown sugar-spice cake with warm spices and fruits marks the fall — despite the fact that the outside temperature has been unseasonably warm. I baked…
Bake/ breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ whole wheat/ year round
Banana Breakfast Squares | Baking with Dorie
I am having the banana breakfast squares with my morning coffee as I’m writing today’s post. Morning is a good time to write and to refuel.…
Dorie’s recipe for carrot muffins makes a dozen. I wanted everyone in the family to have a taste and didn’t anticipate the need to ration them.…
Poached pear is an elegant dessert to finish a meal. I remember having my first poached pear in a Manhattan restaurant. It’s light, simple and, unexpectedly,…
I’m surprised I can still find fresh cranberries at this time of the year. Other than around Thanksgiving, when cranberries are on the shelves in every…
autumn/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ whole wheat/ year round
Iced Honey-Apple Scones with Whole Wheat | Baking with Dorie
I lean on scones when it comes to reliable baking goods for company. Among my favorite kinds are rich, flaky cream scones and light, tender buttermilk…
autumn/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit
Cranberry Spice Squares | Baking with Dorie
I baked this recipe twice, not by choice. What happened was I forgot to put in the half teaspoon of baking soda. As you’d expect, there…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ foundation recipe/ Fruit
Caramel-Pear & Five-Spice Upside-Down Cake | A Better Method
When a recipe like the caramel-pear and five-spice upside-down cake comes out right the first time, it’s time to break out a happy dance. There are…
Ready to cut up two and a half pounds of apples to make a caramel-apple crisp? It’s apple season; even doubling or tripling the amount of…
Galettes, sweet or savory, are one of my favorite pies to bake. What’s there not to like? Galettes are free form, very little wasted dough, easy…
Berry/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ French/ Fruit
Berry Flognarde | Everyday Dorie
The term berry flognarde throws me off, but you don’t have to. As Dorie Greenspan explains: A flognarde (flow-nyard) is a custardy French dessert of fruit…
Scones are among the first things I learned to bake in those early days. I like the versatility of scones playing with different kinds of flour.…