Hello friends! I’m so excited to tell you about jam curd and it’s delicious, beautiful versatility. However, before we talk about jam curd we need to talk about normal curd – one of my very favorite pastry components! It’s sweet, tart, and buttery, and thick …
Do you know about the magic of spumoni? One of the most underrated ice cream flavors, it’s a triple threat of chocolate, pistachio, and cherry ice creams. I love spumoni for the rich bitterness of chocolate, the slight salt of pistachio, and the floral sweetness …
This light, summery sweet corn and berry dacquoise has all the flavors of the season! Sweet corn pastry cream and berry compote get layered with toasted almond meringue in this gorgeous dacquoise. Corn in Dessert? Absolutely! I’m far from the first person to use corn …
Spring is finally here, and there are no better flavors to celebrate the season than strawberry and matcha! When Raaka Chocolate asked me to create a dessert for spring, I knew right away that this matcha strawberry swirl cake was the way to go. Strawberry …
Are you familiar with gateau basque? The technical explanation of a gateau basque is that it’s a dessert from the Northern Basque region of France, made up of a short pastry crust and filled with pastry cream and/or cherry jam. The more accurate/fun explanation of …
Is there anything that screams breakfast more than a stack of pancakes dripping with syrup? To me, pancakes are a special treat reserved only for the most leisurely of weekend breakfasts. I wanted to make a cake reminiscent of an easy, slow weekend morning, complete …
Let’s talk about passionfruit cheesecake, my friends. Baking inspiration can be a little harder to find during the winter due to the lack of seasonal fruits and colorful flowers, but thanks to California, we can have passionfruit all year round! Passionfruit is lovely to work …
Halloween is in 4 days, which means that pumpkin- and apple-centered desserts are absolutely everywhere. To shade to pumpkins or apples, but I felt like other seasonal produce deserved some time in the spotlight too. Enter pears and these ginger pear oatmeal cream pies! Since …
These strawberry passionfruit buns have 3 components: a perfectly soft dough, a strawberry passionfruit filling, and a strawberry passionfruit frosting. Strawberries and passionfruit play so nicely together; the sweetness of strawberries mellows out the passionfruit tartness into something wonderful. This recipe must be purchased! Purchase …
Hello world! I’m excited to share what may be my favorite cookie of 2021 (there are still 4 months left, so we’ll see, but these passionfruit cheesecake cookies are currently in the #1 spot). They’re sweet, tangy, floral, fruity, creamy, and crunchy! There’s fresh passionfruit …