Just Baking

 
I’m a huge fan of Fall. I love the changing colors of the leaves. I love the musky smell of piles of leaves wet on the ground. I love the cooler nights and shorter days. I love using it as an excuse to bake lots of things with pumpkin in them. So today I present […]

Mooncakes are thin shelled pastries with a thick layer of dense fillings that are traditionally associated with the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Fillings can include duck egg yolks, red bean paste, and lotus seed paste, all of which are traditional, but additional mooncake fillings have been introduced reflecting modern tastes and health concerns.
The overall process […]

It helps to have in your repertoire an all-purpose recipe for when you are in need of a dozen cupcakes or something you can decorate. For me, it’s this yellow cake recipe. I’ve used this recipe for my Halloween cupcakes, the heart from Valentine’s Day, and for my Easter Bunny cupcakes this past […]

It may be a little late to include these in your 1st or 2nd night seder, but for a nice mid-week kosher-for-Passover treat, these Praline Cookies are quick and easy to throw together in order to fill a  cookie Jones in this time of baked-good deprivation.  Oh, the sufferin’….
I found this recipe a few months […]

Leave it to America to come up with the most random times to declare food-centric holidays, and then tell no one about it. A brief search of google revealed that we do indeed have numerous dates designated to specific edible items, be them baked goods, sweets, savory dishes, individual spices… You name it, I’ll […]

If you ever want to bake a cake or other dessert in the shape of a heart but don’t have a heart pan, you can always use a round pan and a square pan.  The length of the square pan should be the same as the diameter of the round pan.  Once everything is baked, divide […]

Ever since I saw this post on Coconut and Lime, I’ve been hankering to give these “Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies” a whirl.  I love a chocolate snap, and a chocolate snap with a SNAP is extra special.  I’ve eaten versions of this in both cookie and brownie form, but had yet to try my own […]

So, for Valentines Day, I had planned on making a saucy dessert, made scarlet with raspberries and strawberries, perhaps something with cream or jelly, or a tart curd of some sort. Perhaps a simple Creme au Coeur. However, my desire for something savoury got in the way of all so I made a distinctly unpudding-like […]

This past weekend we were invited over to my Sister’s house to have dinner. When thinking about what to bring I offered for us to bring over some dessert. I thought it’d be a nice challenge for Steph as she is almost finished with her second cake decorating class. On Saturday morning we were kicking […]

They say that the quickest way to a person’s heart is through their stomach, so it’s only logical that the main fixture of a Valentine’s Day celebration seems to be something edible.  While chocolate candies tend to take center stage for obvious reasons, there are endless other possibilities for equally romantic treats, especially for those […]