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Perfect Lemon Curd

This perfect lemon curd is refreshingly tart with just a hint of sweetness! It is as versatile as it is delicious!

This perfect lemon curd is refreshingly tart with just a hint of sweetness! It is as versatile as it is delicious!

Now I don’t want to create any mass-hysteria, so brace yourselves for the truth I’m about to drop…

This lemon curd has been described on many an occasion as “crack”. Lemon curd isn’t the sexiest member of the pastry world, so this is HIGH PRAISE. When I am pressed for the…

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Cherry Pecan Sourdough Bread

Are you ready for your next dose of sourdough? I've been eating this Cherry Pecan Sourdough Bread on repeat!

This Cherry Pecan Sourdough Bread is chewy and full of dried cherries and toasted pecans! It is delightful for breakfast, an afternoon snack with nut butter or for dinner!

Raise your hand if whenever you go into an artisan bakeshop, you have an internal debate about which loaf to choose. 🙋🏼‍♀️ Should I get the practical sandwich bread or should I get the sexy, fun loaf full of dried fruit and…

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Devil's Food Cake

This is my third chocolate birthday cake. 🥳 Because the closer you get to 40, the more chocolate decadence you deserve.

This Devil’s Food Cake is rich, moist and tender! Layer with a dark chocolate ganache and chocolate Italian Meringue Buttercream for a delicious cake that is fit for a birthday celebration!

This is my third chocolate birthday cake. 🥳 Because I’m extra like that. And because the closer you get to 40, the more chocolate decadence you deserve. That’s just a fact. Brace yourselves for next year 😉

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Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake! I know what you are thinking, but stop. It is tender, moist and perfectly rich. Slather it with a silky chocolate cream cheese buttercream for the perfect pair!

This Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake is tender, moist and perfectly rich. Slather it with a silky chocolate cream cheese buttercream for the perfect pair!

I know what you are thinking, but stop.

Let me baking science this for you: Mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil and egg yolks. You know what you put in every single boxed-cake-mix cake? Oil and eggs. Using mayonnaise is like the ultimate cheat…

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Dark Chocolate Pudding

This Dark Chocolate Pudding is rich, creamy and super easy!

Dark Chocolate Pudding Cup but make it adult.

Some days you just need a dark chocolate pudding cup, ya know? Nostaligic desserts feel extra comforting right now.

I mean I wasn’t allowed to have pudding cups as a kid, but I can imagine.

Flash back to 1995:

Me in the lunchroom: “Mmmmm cinnamon apple sauce cup! Mom, you shouldn’t have…Jimmy, can I interest you in one delightful apple…

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Hazelnut Flourless Chocolate Cake

This Hazelnut flourless chocolate cake is rich and chocolatey with a little nuttiness from the hazelnuts and just a hint of brightness from lemon zest!

This Hazelnut flourless chocolate cake is rich and chocolatey with a little nuttiness from the hazelnuts and just a hint of brightness from lemon zest! A silky ganache on top makes it truly decadent.

Now this is the first cake in what I am calling my Chocolate Birthday Week. If I have to have my 23rd birthday during Quarantine, then it is going to be filled with CHOCOLATE!

Haha! Ok you…

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Sourdough Pizza Dough

Fickle, fickle world. Sourdough bread may go in and out of style faster than Hammer Pants, but pizza will never leave us! And, thus, I give to you the easiest, fastest sourdough pizza dough EVER.

This sourdough pizza dough is fast and you can use your sourdough starter discard! There is no kneading because it’s all made in the food processor!

Fickle, fickle world. Sourdough bread may go in and out of style faster than Hammer Pants, but pizza will never leave us! And, thus, I give to you the easiest, fastest sourdough pizza dough EVER.

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Sourdough Raisin Bread

This Sourdough Raisin Bread is soft, chewy, buttery and packed full of raisins in every bite!

This Sourdough Raisin Bread is soft, chewy, buttery and packed full of raisins in every bite!

Bread is my weakness. That one thing that I couldn’t live without. If you know me professionally, you know that I am OBSESSED with baking bread, experimenting with different flavors and creating new recipes just because I can.

I get emotionally invested in it. It’s a little freakish.

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Puff Pastry Fruit Tart

It's almost the weekend!! Celebrate with an easy puff pastry fruit tart! And I show you how to make it with a new video!

This Puff Pastry Fruit Tart is an easy, yet stunning dessert! Make the base with store-bought or homemade puff pastry, fill it with pastry cream and top it with an array of your favorite fresh fruits!

And just when you had lost faith that I would ever do anything with that puff pastry! 😉 It all comes together.

This simply…

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Vanilla Bean Pastry Cream

Vanilla Bean Pastry Cream is one of the most versatile recipes in pastry! This silky, delicious recipe will take all your desserts to the next level! And I’ll teach you all the tricks to keep it lump free!

Pastry Cream or Crème Pâtissière is one of the most versatile recipes in pastry! This silky, delicious vanilla bean pastry cream will take all your desserts to the next level! I’ll teach you all the tricks to keep it lump free every time!

Pastry cream, you sly fox. So dull sounding, not much to look at either, but the base for SO MANY RECIPES!

Vanilla bean pastry cream is the filling for…

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Banana Crumb Bread

This easy cinnamon banana crumb bread has a chewy, crunchy streusel topping and is the perfect way to use up those old bananas! It’s so easy that it is all made in one bowl with an immersion blender or in the blender!

This easy cinnamon banana crumb bread has a chewy, crunchy streusel topping and is the perfect way to use up those old bananas! It’s so easy that it is all made in one bowl with an immersion blender or in the blender!

In case you’ve been holed up under a Quarantine Rock, let me tell you, banana bread fever has swept the virtual nation.

TBH you’d be hard pressed to find a Food Bandwagon that…

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Inverse Puff Pastry

Learn how to make inverse puff pastry from scratch with an easy to follow video tutorial! My inverse puff pastry makes the flakiest, most buttery pastry imaginable. The results will be better than store-bought!

Learn how to make inverse puff pastry from scratch with an easy to follow video tutorial! My inverse puff pastry makes the flakiest, most buttery pastry imaginable. The results will be better than store-bought!

Flakey layers rich with butter! Le sigh of joy

A bit of work and patience will yield almost endless possibilities. Think of inverse puff pastry as the ultimate social distancing…

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Basic Sourdough Bread Recipe

This Basic Sourdough Bread is simple to make but tastes anything but basic! A complete tutorial with a video!

This Basic Sourdough Bread recipe is simple to make but tastes anything but basic! A detailed tutorial with a video!

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Uncertain and unsettling times make me seek comfort in baking and cooking. Based on the number of friends, who up until this point I didn’t know even had an oven, asking me about baking bread, and the…

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Cherry Preserves Ricotta Toast

Cherry Preserves Ricotta Toast -These Cherry Preserves are quick and easy! Stock up on Summer’s bounty and enjoy all year! I spread mine on black pepper honey ricotta toast for an easy snack or breakfast.

These Cherry Preserves are quick and easy! There is just one simple addition that makes them tower over all the rest! Stock up on Summer’s bounty and enjoy all year! I spread mine on black pepper honey ricotta toast for an easy snack or breakfast.

I can’t eat cherry preserves with a spoon. That guilty pleasure is reserved for Nutella, peanut butter, and pasta sauce. (Oh, so that last one is…

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Pickled Cherries

Pickled Cherries are an easy way to preserve tart or sweet cherries for the months to come! They make a zippy addition to any salad, chicken, pork, duck, or beef dish! And as an easy, delicious topping for tacos! 

Pickled Cherries are an easy way to preserve tart or sweet cherries for the months to come! They make a zippy addition to any salad, chicken, pork, duck, or beef dish! And as an easy, delicious topping for tacos! 

You didn’t think I would leave you hanging without a recipe for the Pickled Cherries in my Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad did you? Never.

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Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad

There is nothing better than taking all of Summer’s bounty and throwing it into an easy, no-oven salad! This Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad is at once familiar and comforting with a hint of the unexpected!

There is nothing better than taking all of Summer’s bounty and throwing it into an easy, no-oven salad! This Stone Fruit Caprese Panzanella Salad is at once familiar and comforting with a hint of the unexpected!

I live here now.

But actually! Lol. Summer hits the NYC farmer’s markets and I just can’t stop.

All the berries, all the heirloom tomatoes, all the peaches, nectarines and cherries! (mor…

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Strawberry Lemon Cake Donuts (Video!)

These Lemon Strawberry Cake Donuts have a soft, tender lemon almond cake absolutely coated in a strawberry glaze made with a quick homemade strawberry jam! Positively divine!

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