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.…
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…
This is the last post of the 12 days of holiday baking series, ending what seems like a long marathon race. Some of the recipes are…
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Chocolate Babka | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
My family loves a good babka, especially the one from Liv Bread nearby, where there is always a line. The price has increased markedly, now costing…
breakfast/ dessert/ featured/ holidays/ Italian/ Yeast bread
Panettone Muffins | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
Panettone is an Italian Christmas classic bread which has gained a global profile. Do you notice that panettone, extravagantly wrapped and ribboned, is on the shelves…
dessert/ Gluten free/ holidays/ vegetarian
Peppermint Meringue Kisses Two Ways | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
The leftover liquid of a can of chickpeas, aka aquafaba, is the core element for some spectacular vegan peppermint meringue kisses. Yes, it’s quite extraordinary. By…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ holidays/ my favorites/ scalable/ whole wheat
Coffee Anise Stars | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
It’s exciting to be making holiday cookies and decorate them to radiate the seasonal glow. That means making the coffee-anise stars from Baking with Dorie. The…
If you want to make good-tasting cookies, there are plenty of recipes able to deliver that. If you are attracted to the beauty of the spiced…
dessert/ foundation recipe/ holidays/ Other Sweets/ scalable/ two ways
Sparkling Shortbread Cookies | 12 Days of Holiday Baking
How would you like to have a master shortbread dough which can morph into a variety of cookies? It’s like a gift that keeps on giving.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…