Category Archives: Other Desserts
Happy Pi Day!
This year’s occurrence of the geeky new tradition, Pi Day, coincided with a rare snow day in the Northeastern U.S. and I had an unlikely opportunity to throw myself into a little baking to celebrate. Cherry Pi’s – As individual, … Continue reading
Constructive Failures
This weekend presented me with a low-pressure opportunity to try some creative things that were new to me. Some were spectacular, visual failures, and others turned out relatively acceptable. I did learn a lot of things along the way, though, … Continue reading
PB Pavlova
I hear it’s sacrilege, but that hasn’t stopped my oven before… Coming from a fluffernutter culture, meringue and peanut butter make an intriguing combination I’ve been having fun experimenting with. In this case, I went for a pavlova with a … Continue reading
Chocolate Swiss Meringue Roses
Pssst – you can pipe Italian and Swiss meringue pretty much like piping butter cream… Pass it on I keep falling in love with meringues in new ways. I wanted to do something easy for a recent event, but be … Continue reading
The Crown Cream Puffs
I love making cream puffs – they seem to have a great balance between the rich, custardy filling and the choux casing. Also, I believe I have an edge in the game: since I keep chickens, I tend to have extremely … Continue reading
Heart-ier Palmiers
I wanted a pretty and snackable pastry that could show a little love for my guys. With only minor tweaking, the classic palmier, or elephant ear, can be coaxed into a heart shape and livened-up with raspberry jam. (Too much … Continue reading
Viking Pie/Cake
On the occasion of a dear friend’s birthday, I got to have a lot of fun making something less traditional. She’s a huge scholar of Viking culture and a culinary anthropologist. One of her very favorite desserts is lemon meringue … Continue reading
A Shortcake in Winter
I’m getting the Valentine’s bug here and have been taking the opportunity to indulge in all things heart-shaped and red. I wasn’t going to do a strawberry shortcake, but the spouse asked for it, and he almost never asks for … Continue reading
Galette des Rois
I don’t think there needs to be much excuse to play with frangipane and pastry, but if it helps, French pastry shops this time of year turn out a special treat for Three Kings Day – the Galette des Rois … Continue reading
Yummy Failure
The Best of Intentions I’ve discovered that it’s even tougher keeping on top of baking and blogging with an infant to care for than it was being a heavily pregnant zombie, even if I do have more energy again (Shhh!). … Continue reading
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