Hi-hat cupcakes
Reason number 73 why my recent “business trip” to Portland won in every way: my sister and I made cupcakes. Giant, ridiculous cupcakes with heaping mounds of meringue and so many forms of chocolate and perfectly sleek shells. We devoured…
Toasted marshmallow chocolate cream pie
I know that Pi Day was Saturday and I totally missed the boat, but this was moving weekend. There was a large truck and many heavy boxes and so many cows through all of Ohio, and the pictures of this…
Red wine chocolate cupcakes with whipped ricotta
Boston no longer has sidewalks, just tunnels between towering walls of snow. And the walls just keep growing, as another blizzard is making its way toward the city this weekend. So I took off, tagging along with some friends to…
Cocoa powder and cookies
Cocoa powder holds a special place in my heart as the ingredient that got me into food science. During my senior year of college, I wanted to pursue research in food science but my school didn’t have any faculty in…
Ultimate chocolate cookies
After the intricate carving and too many piping bags of my 12 days of Christmas series, I needed to reset in the kitchen with something simple. As per usual, cookies were the answer. Chocolate cookies, to be exact, and I…
Cream puff swans
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Seven swans-a-swimming, six geese-a-laying Five golden rings Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree. Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2015…
Chocolate-coconut icebox cookies
I love the holiday season for too many reasons to count: silly family traditions, ambitious knitting projects that result in half-finished presents, Christmas carols everywhere, and COOKIES. All of the cookies. We have to make a batch of sugar cookies…
Peanut butter bonbons
I’m on a plane right now, flying home from Spokane and my grandma’s funeral. It hasn’t been an easy weekend. It was hard to stand in the living room of the house my mom grew up in, flooded with memories…
Browned butter pastry cream… and cupcakes!
I’ve had jobs in three different restaurant kitchens, and I didn’t feel qualified for any of them when I was hired. I’ve come to relish that feeling, most of the time at least, because it pushes me to learn the…
Browned butter chocolate chip cookies
My childhood home had a built-in stepstool in the kitchen that pulled out like a drawer, which was, of course, directly in front of the mixer. I’m not sure if my parents were encouraging independence or resigned to the fact…
