Baking for the Jewish new year
For the first time in many years, I was able to make challah from scratch! I baked round raisin challah to celebrate the Jewish new year this weekend. It’s my […]
Chewy chocolate ginger cookies
Today’s #OneGoodThing with Mama is homemade chewy chocolate ginger cookies that are perfectly reminiscent of the ones we got at The Buttery in Santa Cruz1 What was your #OneGoodThing today? […]
Meyer lemon loaf for mental health
Mama and I needed a pick-me-up today and I needed to bake something easy as an act of self-care. So I found this yummy box mix from Trader Joe’s in […]
Birthday cake trial run
I’ve been itching to bake and since my birthday is next month, I decided to make a birthday cake. I used this SmittenKitchen recipe for the cake itself and this […]
Festive birthday cake
For the final day of my visit, I baked a very special cake for my best friend Alyssa’s 40th birthday! I made her a Cake Remer, the pear and bittersweet […]
A practice bake
I’ll be baking our our special Italian cake with pear and chocolate for my best friend’s 40th birthday later this month, and I needed to complete a practice round. The […]
Cookie ready
I finally finished balling up the cookie dough I made last week. I froze the dough balls and now we’re ready to whip up a handful of cookies whenever we […]
Yummy homemade cake
Our favorite Italian cake with pears and bittersweet chocolate didn’t turn out quite the same. I think I’m out of practice making it. Thankfully it was still delicious! Today’s #OneGoodThing […]
Triple lemon layer cake
My attempt at lemon curd turned out to be a liquid failure, but I was able to revive it on the stovetop and it came out delightful. The tart curd […]
Cookies for friends
Baking my signature cherry chocolate chip cookies was the final step in preparing care packages with Mama’s knitting to mail to a couple of our friends. Of course, Mama and […]
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