Pear & Cardamom Caramel Upside-Down Cake
The winds are changing and autumn is in the air, which means pears are now in season. This warming, comforting cake makes the most of these gems and is just right for this time of year. The pears get softened by the aromatic, cardamom-infused caramel sauce, and the almond-scented sponge with a hint of orange […]
Honey-Roasted Peanut Butter Cookies
These salty-sweet cookies are chewy and intense, with a double dose of flavor from the honey-roasted peanut flour–a thirty-second project that keeps them tender and rich. They're one of those rare cookies that improve with age, making them one of my favorite options for cookie jars and care packages alike.
Italian Anise Cookies
Cakey, with a little heft, Angelettis share similarities with a scone or a biscuit. A combination of shortening and butter gives the cookies both ethereal texture and rich flavor, while baking powder provides just enough lift. Lemon zest and juice ably complement the refreshing hit of anise, which fully permeates the cookies.
Rustic French Apple Tart
Like an apple pie without the pan, this French apple tart consists of a thin layer of cinnamon-scented apples atop a buttery, flaky crust.
Salty Buckwheat Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This is a chocolate chip cookie. But not just any chocolate chip cookie. This one, which gets its speckled look, earthy, nutty flavor, and chewy middle from buckwheat flour, might just become your new favorite. You can substitute whole-wheat flour for the buckwheat flour and still get a great cookie, though it will (obviously) be […]
Apple Cake
This easy apple cake recipe is the perfect fall treat! It’s moist, lightly spiced, and jam-packed with tender apples.
BA’s Best Peanut Butter Cookies
What makes this peanut butter cookie recipe The Best? Well, there are a few reasons actually. We call for natural peanut butter so that you can dial the sugar and salt amounts exactly. Instead of just adding roasted peanuts from the can, we roast them a second time for even more peanutty flavor. And the […]
Praline Pumpkin Snack Cake
Pecan Praline Pumpkin Cake is my favorite new pumpkin dessert recipe, and that’s saying a lot. This cake has the perfect tender crumb, a lightly spiced pumpkin flavor, and an out of this world pecan praline frosting — get ready to drool.
Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
The problem with spice cakes? Spice. Some variations suffer spice overload, which makes them gritty and dusty. Others are so lacking in spice flavor that it seems as if a cinnamon stick has only been waved in their general direction. We wanted an old-fashioned, moist, and substantial spice cake with spices that were warm and […]
Peanut Butter Cookies
We wanted a peanut butter cookie that was crisp around the edges and chewy in the center, with a buttery, sweet, and deeply peanutty flavor. We added peanut butter to our dough until we reached 1 cup; any more and the cookies were dense and heavy. To increase nuttiness without adding more peanut butter, […]
Fresh Grape and Champagne Sorbet
A delicious, cooling, and elegant dessert. The cinnamon really adds a nice touch to the grape flavor. It’s lovely in early fall when grapes are in season.
Maple-Glazed Apple Fritters
On my last visit to San Francisco, I fell in love with Apple Fritters. If you have never had these before, they are little doughnut-y dumplings filled with creamy sweet apple gorgeousness and they are just a celebration of Autumn all wrapped into gorgeous sweet dough. It’s like deep-fried apple pie in bun form – […]
Classic Chewy Oatmeal Cookies
Many oatmeal cookies are dry, cakey, and overly spiced. To make ours dense and chewy, we combine unsaturated fat (vegetable oil) and saturated fat (butter) in a ratio of nearly 3 to 1, and we reduce the proportion of flour. Adding an extra egg yolk boosts moistness and richness, while a touch more salt […]
Butter Pecan Ice Cream
I’ve never made or eaten homemade ice cream that is this silky, smooth, and delicious. I followed the ingredients and directions closely with only one small diversion, I prepared my custard the night before, transferred it to a container with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerated it overnight so I could put it in my little […]
Irish Apple Crumble Cake
Apple crumble is one of my most favourite desserts of all time, I remember making it growing up and to this day still swoon at the smell of it coming out of the oven. This Irish apple crumble cake is nice little twist on the classic with a moist apple cake interior and a […]
Chunky Peanut Butter Cookies
This recipe is modestly adapted from Grandad Danner’s Favorite Peanut Butter Cookies in My Father’s Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow. Our only changes were to replace the dark brown sugar with light brown sugar (just to simplify), omit the additional sugar for rolling (we found them a bit too sweet), and add chopped peanuts for texture. […]