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 […]
Chicken Schnitzel
This classic chicken Schnitzel recipe sounds harder to make than it is. Plus, you get to pound out the day’s stress.
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, […]
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 – […]
Salty-Sweet Party Mix
Whether you prefer the buttery richness of classic party mix or you’re on the sugarcoated puppy chow team, this recipe has you covered. Sweet from honey, savory from miso and nutritional yeast, and a touch spicy from chili powder—it’s the perfect crowd-pleasing snack. When choosing crackers, nuts, and cereal for the mix, be sure to […]
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. […]
Scallop Gratin with Pumpkin
Coquilles St. Jacques is a type of broiled scallop gratin. It’s a rich, buttery and creamy scallops dish. Sometimes you’ll find it baked, sometimes broiled, but it is ALWAYS decadent. In fact, it’s so buttery and creamy, that it might– just possibly– be a little too decadent. This autumn take on the rich and […]
Oat and Pecan Brittle Cookies
These oversized, undulating, oaty-butterscotchy-toasty cookies get their crispy-edges and chewy center from a few essential moves. It may feel cruel to have to wait, but the dough MUST rest overnight. “By chilling in the fridge, the dough ‘cures,’ and the sugar further dissolves, contributing to a chewier texture,” Claire explains. “The rest also allows the […]