Ah, cheesecake is beloved in our household. I usually try and make one once a year but I can’t remember the last time I made a cheesecake. My husband is a purest with cheesecake and usually likes them plain with fresh fruit so he was skeptical about this version with marbled chocolate but alas it…
Author: Diane Zwang
Brown-Sugar Oat Squares
These brown sugar oat squares are from the cookie section of Baking with Dorie. These are made primarily from flour, oats, butter and brown sugar. They actually tasted like the topping to a cobbler. We thought these were tasty and flavorful as they were spiced with cinnamon and allspice. To see what others thought head…
Brioche Sandwich Buns
We are making bread this week on Tuesdays with Dorie. We have made brioche before so I was comfortable with this recipe. My buns would not win any beauty contest but they tasted good. My husband and I quickly ate one bun each just out of the oven, there is nothing like freshly baked bread….
Coffee Shortbread
We have made several shortbread cookies in Tuesdays with Dorie. This is an easy cookie to make especially when made in a cake pan. Butter, sugar, flour are the main ingredients and then this one is flavored with coffee, lemon and cardamom. My husband is not a fan of cardamom but I used half the…
Tender Biscuits
Well it has been quite a week in California 🔥We live in Venice Beach so we are safe but my mother-in-law lives in Brentwood which has been under evacuation so she has been living with us for the past week. I am enjoying having more family home 🙂 On to the baking assignment. I put…
Chocolate Caramel Chestnut Cake
I made this fancy cake for my mother-in-law’s birthday. There are several steps which can be done ahead of time; ganache, cake, syrup and glaze. The recipe comes from Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan but she states the recipe comes from Bon Appetite. I started sourcing ingredients just after Christmas thinking…
Orange Spice Cake
Our last bake of 2024 for Tuesdays with Dorie baking group. This was an easy recipe to wrap up the year. My husband gandered at the recipe and frowned at the cardamom and ginger, not his favorite flavors so I put him in charge of the spices. I was baking this cake for him and…
Rugelach with Four Fillings
This is my third post on Rugelach from Dorie’s cookbooks. This current recipe from Baking with Dorie has the choice of four fillings. I chose to do two of the four; classic filling and the babka filling. I adjusted the classic filling to include orange marmalade, sugar/cinnamon, and dried cranberries, I left out the nuts…
Tarte Tatin
My first tarte tatin. I could not believe that I had never made one before but my blog doesn’t lie. This tart is very simple with few ingredients. Sugar is caramelized, I cheated and used the water method, then butter is added to the caramel. Five large apples, I used Fuji, are peeled cored and…
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