This month the theme for the Kosher Connection recipes is stuffing. While my turkey stuffing has no place on a parve blog, given that it is made with schmaltz and chicken stock, I still wanted to participate in the theme so I started thinking about stuffing related desserts. My first thought was a bread pudding, [...]
This time of year pumpkins are everywhere! A couple of weeks ago we took the kids to the local pumpkin patch. While they busied themselves painting silly faces on their pumpkins I walked around and picked out one of each variety pumpkin that was good for eating. Needless to say we have been eating a [...]
With Thanksgiving fast approaching it seems only fitting to post another pumpkin recipe that would be a perfect finish for a Thanksgiving meal. As is probably obvious since I have a baking blog, I love experimenting with different recipes. I love pushing the limits and seeing what I can make parve without sacrificing taste. However [...]
A couple of weeks ago, late in the afternoon on a Friday, I asked my son what he thought we should make for dessert for shabbat. Without even pausing for a second he enthusiastically responded “ice cream.” Clearly he is my son, since ice cream is one of my favorite things to make and eat [...]
Lately I have been feeling tired. I imagine that it is related to the fact that I am pregnant, but all I know for sure is that I am having trouble getting up off the couch to tackle complicated baking projects. I look at the recipes, and they sound amazing, but I can’t seem to [...]
Sometimes it is nice to make a dessert that is knock-your-socks-off delicious without being much work at all. The kind of cake where you can just dump the ingredients into the mixer and turn it on without worrying about adding things in the right order a little bit at a time. This pumpkin cake is [...]
I am very excited to announce that I have joined the baking group Heavenly Cake Bakers. We are going to be baking through Rose Levy Beranbaum’s new book Rose’s Heavenly Cakes. As an avid baker I knew that there was a serious gap in my baking library since I didn’t own a book by the [...]
I recently acquired a new cook book (and by acquired, I mean somehow I clicked the button the placed it in my Amazon cart. It is amazing how often that happens with cookbooks, I just can’t explain it). I am in love. It is an entire book dedicated to marshmallows. Now I happen to be [...]
It seems that at this time of year I find myself gravitating towards recipes full of fall fruits and spice. Now I know that pumpkin isn’t really a fruit, but for the purposes of desserts I consider it close enough. I have been experimenting with pumpkin recipes this fall, but so far haven’t had much success (the two versions [...]
With all of the holidays I have been doing quite a bit of baking. With the colder weather I have been craving warm spiced fall flavors. With family in town it and a long day of dancing in store for us on Simchat Torah I decided to make a special treat breakfast of pumpkin cream [...]