Recipes
Recipe: Holiday Austrian Linzer Cookie Recipe
Fall is starting and the holiday season is creeping up–meaning I *have* to make cookies…I swear, the holidays bring out all our inner cookie monsters 🙂 My first thought for holiday cookies (aside from the holy grail: chocolate chip cookies)…
Recipe: Whole Wheat Blueberry-Cinnamon Oat Bars
I can’t get enough of cinnamon (and really any fall spice…) lately…and it’s still only August! I guess I’m just looking forward to fall baking too much. These Whole Wheat Blueberry-Cinnamon Oat Bars, though, truly hit the spot–and can be…
What Makes a Perfect Macaron: The Ultimate Guide
A “perfect” macaron is certainly highly subjective…but most people seem to have a bad macaron experience under their belt. The macarons are too sweet, too chewy, too crunchy…dry, hard, tasteless, overpriced. Unfortunately, because macarons are trendy, there’s seems to be…
Recipe: Apple Butter Snickerdoodle Bars
Snickerdoodles are one of my favorite childhood cookies (I’m slightly convinced cinnamon-sugar may actually be catnip for kids…). There’s something about their uber-soft, slightly chewy texture and tangy, cinnamon-sugar flavor that’s just…incredible! The problem with snickerdoodle cookies: they can take…
Recipe: Gluten-Free, Less-Sugar Monster Cookies
Monster cookies are a delicious, peanut-butter, oatmeal cookie with an intriguing name–these cookies originally started out as peanut butter cookies but the baker was out of flour. Instead, they used oats; thus, the monster cookie was born. Apparently, the dough…
Recipe: Fluffy Whole Wheat Soft Pretzels
Whenever I think of soft pretzels, I usually associate them with my childhood (and airports/malls…those pretzel stands are everywhere!). My dad always heated up these frozen soft pretzels for breakfast (which, in hindsight, was probably not the best soft pretzels…
Recipe: Brazilian Brigadeiro Tart
Those of you following the blog probably have seen (and maybe even tried) my delicious Brigadeiro recipe (if you haven’t…it’s to die for…like, seriously, go. make. it. now!!!! Sorry for the forcefulness…something as good as Brigadeiro is nothing to joke…
Recipe: Žu -Žu Kocke (Serbian Puff Pastry Squares)
Zu-Zu kocke were my absolute FAVORITE childhood snack when I would visit Serbia…even more so because their name was so fun to say (it’s pronounced “zhu-zhu”)! These buttery, tender, flaky bite-sized delights are actually a relatively simple, familiar concept–essentially, zu-zu…
Recipe: Caramel-Pecan Tart (A Twist on Pecan Pie)
I absolutely LOVE roasted pecans and would probably join a pecan cult if it existed…aaaand now I just made it weird…but seriously, there’s just something magical about the nutty, toasted, unctuous flavor of a perfectly-roasted pecan. This pecan passion is…
Flavoring Macarons with Loose-Leaf Tea
If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you probably know that I also own a newly-opened macaron shop (Poeme Macarons!), an endeavor I’ve put a potent dose of effort and passion into for quite a while now. It’s…
