These are rounds of meringues, sandwiched with whipped cream and rolled in chocolate shavings and other crunchy bits. Dorie calls them little marvels after the famous…
Phew, we’ve finished making the lemon meringue layer cake. This is next to the last in the layer cakes section of the book, Baking with Dorie,…
Chocolate/ classics/ Dorie Greenspan/ foundation recipe/ Nut
Oatmeal Cookies with Nuts and Chocolate | Baking with Dorie
The classic chocolate chip cookie recipe calls for equal parts butter, sugar and flour. (Or the simple ratio of 8 ounces/two sticks/272 grams of butter: 4…
Chocolate/ classics/ Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ pastry
Chocolate Eclairs | Baking with Dorie
The name éclair means “flash of lightning;” they are elongated. (I like word games, such as Wordle and Spelling Bee, so any word trivia would get…
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…
The marbled cheesecake follows all the classic methods. It has a graham cracker crust and a filling made by whipping together cream cheese, eggs and heavy…
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…
classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ holidays/ make ahead/ Nut
Maple-Walnut Pie | Baking with Dorie
If maple-walnut pie does not ring the bell, maple-pecan pie will. Thanksgiving is around the corner, it’s the season to make the iconic pecan pie. However,…
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/ classics/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ my favorites/ scalable
Alsatian-Style Blueberry Tart | Baking with Dorie
There are a few of my favorite things to which I’ll keep going back. Blueberry tart is among the top of the heap. I can’t agree…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ make ahead
Caramel Crunch-Chocolate Chunklet Cookies | Baking with Dorie
There are several unexpected elements — in a good way about the caramel crunch-chocolate chunklet cookies. First off, there is no caramel in the ingredient list…
Berry/ breakfast/ Dorie Greenspan/ summer
Lemony Yogurt Muffins with Blueberries | Baking with Dorie
Muffins with a lot of blueberries folded into them are Dorie’s go-to as well as her template for fruit muffins. I love blueberry muffins and I’m…
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…
Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites/ Pantry essentials/ scalable
Jelly Roll Cake Unlike Any Other | Baking with Dorie
Starting off with the classic jelly roll cake recipe from Baking with Dorie, I ended up with a version that’s unlike any other cake I’ve made.…
Cream/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ French/ my favorites
Cream Puffs with Crackle and Cream | Baking with Dorie
The recipe of cream puffs with crackle and cream contains the classic and noteworthy dough and the filling. In our house, we’re obsessed with the pâte…
Dorie quoted a friend in the saying: “anything worth doing is worth overdoing.” The reference to overdoing is about the caramel flavor which is front and…
The Parisian custard tart does transport me back to Paris, very much like the French cheesecake. What’s the two have in common is the blackened or…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ whole wheat
Copenhagen Rye Cookies with Chocolate, Spice and Seeds | Baking with Dorie
There are several specialty flours I keep in my pantry: semolina for pasta, 00 for pizza and rye for bread and cookies. Why rye flour? The…
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…
I took advantage of a rainy day to make some holiday cookies I have my sight on for quite a while. These are the matcha tea…