This orange cream pound cake is a dream. Orange cream is a very nostalgic flavor to me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s also just straight up delicious. Orange was my favorite flavor popsicle, koolaid, whatever it may be growing up. I always picked a creamsicle when the ice cream truck rolled through. I love vanilla…
I grew up eating cobblers. I remember eating them at my uncles house with berries picked from the yard. To me, a cobbler is world’s apart from a pie, but a lot of people would put them in the same class. I think the lineage goes pie – galette – crisp or cobbler. That’s just…
Growing up I thought biscotti were some sort of fancy toast for drinking coffee. I didn’t learn until much later they are actually a cookie, even though they don’t really look like a traditional cookie. However, in Italian biscotti actually means cookies. If you break the word down further, it comes from the Latin word…
These little cuties are here just in time for Valentine’s Day. Now, could you make cinnamon rolls? Yes. But would these heart shaped raspberry rolls be better? I think so. These rolls are a soft brioche style bread, filled with raspberry jam or preserves and topped with a white chocolate cream cheese glaze. I love…
This creamy goat cheese, cinnamon and cranberry star bread is going to rocket up your repeat bake list. Star bread is such a showstopper when it comes to desserts and breads. It looks so much harder to make than it is. If you can make cinnamon rolls or babka, you can make star bread. Even…
You might not be familiar with the term buckle when it comes to baking. So what is a spiced pear buckle, or a buckle in general? Don’t let this deter you, this is an easy recipe. This spiced pear buckle is kind of somewhere in the realm of a coffee cake, or crumb cake or…
Believe it or not, I’ve actually never baked anything with cherries before. Probably because I love them and will eat them all right after buying them. Rainier cherries are my absolute favorite and getting a paper bag full while walking through the produce and flower section at Pike Place is the best way to do…
If you’ve never had a braided bread, you’re probably in the majority. There are quite a few recipes for breads filled with lemon curd out on the internet and it’s probably the most popular. One of my favorite appetizers is a crostini with goat cheese, prosciutto, honey, arugula and grapes. It was kind of the…
I love making most things from scratch. I like baking and it gives me a lot of satisfaction to look at a loaf of bread or a fancy cake and know I started with just ingredients and made something delicious and beautiful. But, sometimes I’m all about shortcuts. Lasagna? You will not catch me making…
This balsamic roasted strawberry galette is the perfect summer dessert. Fresh sweet strawberries and flaky buttery crust with added depth of flavor is hard to beat. To me, a galette is superior to a pie. Mainly because pie crust can be fussy, my edge designs never stay pretty when I par or blind bake, etc….
If I had ever had this blackberry poppyseed loaf as a kid, I would have been in heaven. Blackberries are a fruit I’ve spent more time picking in my life than anything else. When I was young we took a trip to Tofino, BC and I remember spending a few hours picking (and eating) blackberries…
Lemon curd and I are having a life long love affair. Except when I say lifelong, I mean adult life because I was a sheltered child who was never exposed to lemon curd. I wasn’t actually sheltered and if I had been introduced I probably would have not liked it like a psychopath. Fun fact,…
Now I’m a fan of the duo that is raspberry and white chocolate just as much as the next person, if not more. But, it’s been done. About a million times. So, I thought about what fruit and white chocolate might be equally delicious. Perhaps white chocolate blueberry cookies? I’ve seen the combo in muffins…
When you think of Valentine’s Day what do you think of when it comes to treats and desserts? Boxes of chocolates, conversation hearts, and chocolate covered strawberries. Obviously you don’t need a recipe for chocolate covered strawberries (dunk strawberry in melted chocolate) and I am not a candy maker so I can’t tell you how…
This raspberry lemon curd cheesecake is pretty heavenly. It’s a creamy vanilla cheesecake with a lemon cookie crust (which honestly sounds perfect on it’s own some days) topped with lemon curd and raspberry curd swirled together. It ends up with a beautiful marbled top to go with the luscious flavor. Fresh lemon is one of…