I love lemon. If I could only eat two flavors for the rest of my life it would be lemon and garlic. Just to be clear there is no garlic in this cake. But my third favorite flavor, thyme, might make an appearance in future iterations. Or maybe lavender and gin…but I digress. Today is…
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Apple Snacking Cake
For Thanksgiving this year we made the Gateau Invisible recipe from Serious Eats with miso caramel and it was amaaaaaazing but also very fiddly so my hope is that this recipe is like that but less fiddly. It’s probably not great sense on my part to direct you away to a different recipe but it…
Shortbread (Plain and Lavender Lemon)
This recipe really speaks to the idea that time is just a construct. Chill for an amount of time that feels right. Bake for an amount of time that feels right. Who needs specific instructions, really? Isn’t baking always supposed to have the confusion of a Bake Off technical challenge? Is the almond optional? How…
Texas Bourbon Balls
It’s time for the holiday cookie making season to begin! As excited as I am to make absurd numbers of cookies and give them to people who already have absurd numbers of cookies or are trying to lose weight or can’t eat that many cookies, this week the temps are in the low 80s. It…
Louise’s Blueberry Pudding
So I’m thinking that this is pudding in the same way that the lemon blueberry pudding cake was pudding. There are no eggs or cornstarch so it can’t actually be a custard. Based on the instructions I’m having trouble identifying exactly what this is. It isn’t quite a buckle, it’s kind of like a grunt,…
Pineapple Shortcake
I know just last week I was talking about how we’re getting into the holiday season so Pineapple Shortcake seems a little out of place. But in Houston the holiday season also means we’re finally getting nice enough weather to hang out outside and do all the things that our friends in the north did…
Spiced Pineapple Upside Down Cake
I have a strong association of pineapple upside down cake with major sporting events, so I’m thinking of it as a great World Series dessert. When I was in high school we would always go to the same friend’s house for the Super Bowl and every year his mom would make (among many bacon wrapped…
Super Bowl Sugar Cookies
Every year for the Super Bowl we theme our food options to the two teams that are playing. There has been Philly Cheesesteak Queso, Lobster Roll Dip, Dumplings (San Francisco), and many years of Kansas City Ribs. While I’m happy to not be having Kansas City Ribs for the third year in a row, the…
Ube Hibiscus Creme Brûlée
Getting married and planning a honeymoon in the age of COVID has been a very exciting adventure that has now spanned years. Our original plan for an international trip ended up getting nixed because we felt like the situation was too fluid, and imagine flying to another and then having to spend the entire two…
Sweet Corn Ice Cream
I was first introduced to the idea of corn in dessert in a corn custard recipe in Deborah Madison’s cookbook, Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets (my absolute favorite cookbook). It seems like a weird concept at first because we’re so trained to think of corn as part of a summer grilled…
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