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Chocolate/ dessert/ holidays/ Nut/ scalable/ Sugar free

Chocolate Bark with Pecans & Seeds | 12 Days of Holiday Baking

It feels right to make dark chocolate bark with pecans and seeds — without adding any sugar. It’s a change from the indulgence of sugary and…

December 4, 2022

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dessert/ holidays/ Other Sweets/ scalable

Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies | 12 Days of Holiday Baking

The second day of holiday baking presents the red velvet crinkle cookies. These cookies are visually stunning with powered sugar, like fresh snow, covering the red…

December 2, 2022

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dessert/ holidays/ Other Sweets/ scalable

Thyme Sea-Salt Cookies | 12 Days of Holiday Baking

There are so many interesting cookies to get excited about baking for the holidays. Can’t quite decide what to bake, so the scheme I devise is…

November 29, 2022

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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…

November 8, 2022

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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…

October 28, 2022

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autumn/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ scalable

Caramel-Apple Crisp | Baking with Dorie

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…

October 11, 2022

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dessert/ French/ Fruit/ Jacques Pepin/ my favorites/ pastry

Plum Galette | Jacques Pépin

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…

September 20, 2022

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classics/ dessert/ French/ Nut/ Yotam Ottolenghi

Coffee and Walnut Financiers | Ottolenghi’s Sweet

Financiers in little blocks of gold they are named after are the “gold” standard. However, it shouldn’t stop us from experimenting with shapes other than rectangular…

September 17, 2022

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dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ Other Sweets

Java Mini Mads | Baking with Dorie

These java mini mads are full of surprises — in a good way. Dorie previews that they are madeleines cookies masquerading as tiny tea cakes. That’s…

September 13, 2022

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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…

September 8, 2022

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Cream/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Fruit

Buttermilk Lemon-Poppy Seed Scones | Baking with Dorie

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.…

August 9, 2022

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cheese/ Cream/ dessert/ Fruit/ Yotam Ottolenghi

Apricot and Amaretto Cheesecake | Ottolenghi’s Sweet

The apricot and amaretto cheesecake is not something you can easily find in a bakery. I’d pay for an apricot cheesecake like this one made with…

July 26, 2022

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Cream/ dessert/ foundation recipe/ Ruth Reichl/ Sugar free/ summer

Honey Lavender Ice Cream

Making the honey lavender ice cream, I’ve found out the remarkable flavor affinity between honey and lavender. This is not a flavor pairing I’ve put together…

July 19, 2022

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Berry/ breakfast/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday

Crumb-Topped Ricotta Coffee Cake | Baking with Dorie

Dorie compares the crumb-topped ricotta coffee cake to fond memories she has of a store-bought cake just like it. I can’t really relate to that since…

July 12, 2022

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Berry/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ my favorites/ quick cake

Cornmeal-Buttermilk Loaf Cake with Berries | Everyday Dorie

The cornmeal-buttermilk loaf cake with berries and the cornmeal skillet cake share the same recipe, except they are baked in different pans. I first baked the…

July 8, 2022

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Bake/ Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ spring/ summer

Strawberry & Rhubarb Tart | Everyday Dorie

“They grow together, ripen at about the same time,” Dorie refers to rhubarb and strawberries in Everyday Dorie. When you see the giant stalks of rhubarb…

June 24, 2022

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Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ summer

Father’s Day Blueberry-Cherry Pie | Baking with Dorie

Dorie baked the blueberry-cherry pie for her husband and son on Father’s Day 2020 because this is a pie that’d make both of them happy. So…

June 14, 2022

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Cream/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ Other Breads/ Yotam Ottolenghi

Date & Oat Soda Bread with Salted Date Butter | Yotam Ottolenghi

Lately there are several soda bread recipes that catch my attention, this is one of them. Soda bread has a key role to play for bakers…

June 4, 2022

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breakfast/ Chocolate/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites

Mochaccino Muffins | Baking with Dorie

  Give me a mochaccino muffin with the morning java. That’d surely make my day; it will also lighten my heart and waken my senses. What…

May 24, 2022

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dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ featured/ foundation recipe/ French/ Gluten free/ Nut

Parisian Macarons | Dorie Greenspan

Parisian macarons were the first cookie I learnt to bake. I mean, before then, I’ve not baked much of anything. It sounds so incredulous that I…

May 17, 2022

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dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ Fruit

French Riviera Lemon Tart | Baking with Dorie

For some reasons, there is no lemon tart on my blog before this one. That surprises me. In retrospect, it is not the result from a…

April 26, 2022

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Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Nut

Eton Mess | Everyday Dorie

Making meringue is the direction I go from time to time whenever there are excess egg whites around — or not. There are many ways to…

April 22, 2022

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breakfast/ kitchen hack/ Other Sweets

Japanese Soufflé Pancakes

The Japanese soufflé pancakes are the novelty pancakes people would patiently wait in line for in the East Village. Their claim to fame is the fluffy…

April 16, 2022

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Berry/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Nut

Steph’s Bakewell Tart | Baking with Dorie

The Bakewell tart is a British classic. It combines a buttery shortcrust pastry, a filling of raspberry jam, almond sponge cake (or frangipane in some versions),…

March 29, 2022

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dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ pastry

Boozy Jumbled-Fruit Croustade | Everyday Dorie

Boozy jumbled-fruit croustade in Everyday Dorie can take different types of dough. Among them, the phyllo dough is Dorie’s choice, but my least favorite. The last…

February 25, 2022

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