There’s a delicious smell wafting through my home right now: Jam-Filled Sandwich Cookies are baking away in my oven. They smell soooo good! My plan was to bring some in to work tomorrow, but they smell so butterly delicious that I might just change my mind and keep them all for me for my notorious…
Cook-a-Longs R Us
Crackle-Topped Bubble Eclairs & Things I Learnt Making Them
My online bake-a-long group is making Dorie Greenspan’s Bubble Éclairs from her Baking Chez Moi cookbook this week, and I chose to make them with a crackle topping. They were definitely tasty, and also definitely more of a learning experience than I expected, even with previous éclair-making experience. Things I learnt while making them: If…
BCM: I Can Bake A Cherry Pie! Or at least a Cherry Crumb Tart
This week’s Baking Chez Moi bake-a-long recipe is for Cherry Crumb Tart. In classic Dorie Greenspan style, she starts off the recipe by describing how she came up with the idea to make a tart with cherries after a drive through Alsace, France. As for me, my strongest association with cherries in baked form is…
Apricot Raspberry Tart or, Shopping on Sweltering Days & Other Things To Do After Work
(This week’s bake-a-long recipe, Dorie Greenspan’s Apricot Raspberry Tart from her Baking Chez Moi cookbook.) THINGS I HAVE DONE TODAY AFTER WORK: Texted the DH to see if he was going shopping, as we were out of apricots (no stone fruit in the fruit bowl? Seriously unheard of in our house.) DH working late, so shopping…
Rhubarb Revisited, or Not: Apricot Upside Down Brown Sugar Cake
Right now, I’m sitting on my sofa, typing away at my laptop and smelling the delicious smells emanating from my kitchen. I am also studiously ignoring the disaster zone that my kitchen has become. There are sinks (plural!) of dirty dishes, spreading out to cover part of the kitchen island as well. There are spatters of jam, sugar, and…