In this age of Calorie Restriction and other fad diets, the concept of preparing 30 creamy, luscious, waistline-expanding desserts over the span of a month sounds almost counter-intuitive. Especially if you’re only a household of two. I’ve been asked by different folks a variety of questions about the nuts and bolts of carrying out a...
“They have feet!” I tweeted excitedly, after peeking at the rounds of macaron batter in the oven. And it all went downhill from there. I would love to say that the cute little macaron at the top of this post is now sitting patiently in my pantry, waiting to be picked up and shared with...
I suspect that the Cardamom Brigade have been hard at work, stealthily making their way into my list of favorite baking ingredients, judging by the spice’s appearance in a number of desserts I’ve prepared this month. Cardamom is a highly polarizing spice – you either love it or you don’t, and I definitely fall in...
We are in the final days of this month-long dessert marathon and I can’t believe I’ve made it this far. Can you? It has been one highly eventful and seriously fun ride, and though I found myself occasionally wishing I had a brood of kids to palm these desserts off to, not to mention helping...
Doughnuts seem to be the cupcakes of the season, judging by the recent spate of doughnut recipes and posts. There were these tempting Nutella-stuffed bunuelos from Cowgirl Chef and an oh-so-pretty banana variation with dried banana streusel from Tartelette and these Apple Cider honey-glazed doughnuts for Rosh Hashanah over at Cupcake Project. Reading all of...
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