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This week’s obsession: Pumpkin Pecan Cake

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Nov 27, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Pumpkin Pecan Cake

Let’s just get this out of the way right now - I don't make traditional Thanksgiving desserts anymore. I’m happy to be inspired by the traditional dessert flavors - and why not? Those flavors are there because it’s what’s in season. But truthfully I’ve never loved the two desserts that Americans settled on as expected Thanksgiving meal closers: pecan pie and pumpkin pie. Mostly it’s because I don’t like pie. Pie crusts are so bland and usually frightfully underbaked. The fill

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This week’s obsession: Pumpkin EVERYTHING

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Nov 13, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Pumpkin EVERYTHING

Ok maybe not everything - I like pumpkin, but not THAT much. But since it’s in season, I do want to enjoy the flavor a bit. Pumpkin is one of those foods that can lend itself to both the savory and the sweet worlds, but since I am me, you know how I decided to use my pumpkin. That's right, I decided to make a delicious dessert with my pumpkin. I know. We're all shocked. One of the most obvious choices for me is to make macarons, so that’s exactly what I did. But instead of th

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This week’s obsession: BoOoOoOk!

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Oct 30, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: BoOoOoOk!

It’s here! My final Hocus Pocus themed creation for October! It’s a “BoOoOoOk!” Cake! I brought this cake to a rooftop party with neighbors who are mostly just a smidge older than I am, but they had no idea what this cake was. So I'll explain: Book is a character in both Hocus Pocus movies. In the movie, it is said that this spellbook is written in blood and bound in human skin. The reason I titled this post with so many “o”s is because when the character Winnifred calls for

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This week’s obsession: Black Flame Candle

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Oct 23, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Black Flame Candle

Behold! The Black Flame Candle! (Still on a Hocus Pocus kick here, friends.) Ok, I know this is not what the Black Flame Candle looks like in the first movie. In fact the only thing that’s black about the Black Flame Candle in the movie is the flame. Whereas for my Black Flame Candle, everything about it is black and the flame... isn’t. C’est la vie. The truth is, I’ve wanted to make a candle cake for a few years now and I finally seized my chance. But ever since this summer

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This week’s obsession: Witchy Macarons

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Oct 16, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: Witchy Macarons

We are in the thick of it, y’all! And by “it” I mean spooky season. (I’m sure you’re tired of me mentioning it, but I am trying to make the most of it this year because I feel like I’ve really missed out on seasons these last few years.) Anyway, I’m still on a Hocus Pocus kick, and decided to make three different types of macarons this weekend, representing each of the Sanderson sisters - again. This time I’ve represented them via their dress colors (much like I did with our

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This week’s obsession: Sistahs Cupcakes

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Oct 9, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Sistahs Cupcakes

Have you watched Hocus Pocus 2 yet?? I won’t give any spoilers, but I definitely enjoyed my experience watching it with friends! It probably helped that they are the kind of people who would readily sing along with/bust out matching choreography to the original movie (we did a double feature - original movie first with singing and dancing, then we settled in for the new one), AND they showed up in full costume. I was so overjoyed! Of course, being the party planner that I am,

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This week’s obsession: Flat Tops

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Oct 2, 2022
2 min

This week’s obsession: Flat Tops

I’m hoping by the end of this post that you “get” the double entendre in the title. This week, I got to try out a frosting technique that has been on my radar for a few months. It seems so simple, yet I wonder why I never thought to do it before. Side note: I realize that this isn’t exactly spooky season baking, but trust that I have plenty of delicious spooky treats planned for this entire month! Mostly I posted these cupcakes today because I don’t want to spoil the surprise

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This week’s obsession: Summer Baking. Or Not.

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Sep 25, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: Summer Baking. Or Not.

Well hello, stranger! Long time no see! Admittedly, that’s entirely my fault since I’m the one who stopped writing blogs for a while. But I had a good reason, I promise! Or, well… many reasons. For starters, one of the last orders I took over the summer was for a wedding cake and macarons. They turned out nicely, but that’s only because of my incredible neighbor. You see, to make macarons you have to have control over the humidity in the room where they are piped, rested, and

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This week’s obsession: Ocean Waves

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Jun 26, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Ocean Waves

Friends, I was lucky enough to take a trip back to New Orleans this past week to celebrate Father’s Day with my dad and to surprise my nieces and nephews! It was wonderful and deliciously warm (everyone is complaining about record heat there, but all I knew is that I didn't have goosebumps once and my nose didn’t run every single day I was there, so I think it was awesome!). While I was there, my family was celebrating my niece's 11th birthday, and you KNOW I jumped at the ch

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This week’s obsession: Browned Butter Frosting

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Jun 12, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Browned Butter Frosting

By now you should know that I am majorly obsessed with browned butter. I’ve only mentioned it all the time, right? And it’s what makes my salted chocolate chip cookies so dang delicious! In the last year or so, I’ve been wondering about different ways to use browned butter so the flavor can really shine. Fast forward to a cake order that not only needed to feed 70+ people, but also was my chance to show off my knowledge of flavor combinations AND how delicious my products are

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This week’s obsession: Maca-WRONGs

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May 30, 2022
2 min

This week’s obsession: Maca-WRONGs

One of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever experienced in the world of pastry is when I go through the painstaking process of making macaron batter, lovingly pipe it into the most perfect circles I can muster, crank up the A/C in my apartment to give them the absolute best weather conditions for survival, then pop them into my oven only to find that almost every single shell on the tray has cracked. It’s devastating. Utterly heartbreaking. And freaking expensive. Because

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This week’s obsession: Cake Slices

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May 8, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Cake Slices

I did it! I finally finished that massive 440 macaron order! I’m so proud of myself! It took me nearly 2 weeks to finish it, but I did it! The absolute best part about it is that I feel SO SEEN after I finished. (Background: this order went to all of my colleagues for Teacher Appreciation Week - TAW.) We had an end of TAW happy hour at a nearby bar (which I organized because that is my job), and I had several colleagues approach me to tell me how much they liked the macarons

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This week’s obsession: Leftovers - for Dessert!

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Apr 24, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: Leftovers - for Dessert!

Lately, I’ve had several sayings or phrases rolling around in my brain 🧠 One of them is “I can do hard things”, which is good, because I can do hard things. A lot of hard things have been piling up for this upcoming month, so I’ve found that phrase to be pretty motivating, too. Go me! Another phrase that has been very useful while unintentionally repeating in my mind is something I was taught in Kindergarten: No, not that one, brain!!! Stop, drop, and roll has never ONCE bee

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This week’s obsession: Mocha Mousse Filling

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Apr 10, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: Mocha Mousse Filling

Ooooh yes, you read that right. Mocha. Mousse. Filling. How decadent! Let’s begin by making sure we are all on the same page here, right? For starters, what is mocha? Well in this instance, mocha is the combination of coffee with chocolate to make a delicious beverage or flavor profile. (The other mocha refers to a specific type of coffee bean grown in Yemen. And if you’re a super nerd like me [obvi, it’s why we’re friends], a third type of Mocha™ is a way to run tests in Ja

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This week’s obsession: Wine Glass Cake

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Mar 27, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: Wine Glass Cake

Have you ever heard of writers who say that they had to write the story they wrote so they could get it out of them? As if they had no control over how the story came to be, but it was necessary to write it down so it would stop bothering them? There’s a song called "Breathe" by Anna Nalick that has a few lyrics that really embodies this feeling: Two AM and I'm still awake writing a song If I get it all down on paper it's no longer Inside of me, threatening the life it belong

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This week’s obsession: The Mathematics of Extracts

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Feb 27, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: The Mathematics of Extracts

Wow, what a boring title! Sorry about that! I know that most of us don’t want to ever think about doing math on the weekend, but sometimes one must go to great lengths to achieve great things. And to me, doing math is a great length. But if you're with me on that, never fear! I’m here to help explain a bit about why math is important to baking and why you’ll REALLY want to do what I’m calling “extract math.” To begin our journey to math today, let’s start with why we even nee

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This week’s obsession: Galentine’s Day

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Feb 13, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Galentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! I hope you’re celebrating this holiday with someone special, doing something special, and/or eating something special. Personally, I’m doing all three of those things! That’s right, I had two of my girlfriends come to San Francisco this weekend to celebrate our own version of the holiday - Galentine’s Day. We hit the town, explored a new restaurant, came back to my place for rooftop wine drinking, and then made our way back to my kitchen where

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This week’s obsession: Cookie Dough Pops

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Jan 30, 2022
4 min

This week’s obsession: Cookie Dough Pops

Sometimes, friends, I knock it so far out of the park that I am thoroughly impressed with myself. This week is definitely one of those times. Are you a cookie dough fan? I have always been a huge fan - chocolate chip cookie dough is my favorite. It’s my favorite Ben and Jerry’s flavor, I love sneaking tastes of the cookie dough before I bake it, and one time, I even bought a log of cookie dough the day of a break up and peeled the wrapper off like a banana and ate my feelings

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This week’s obsession: Fatcarons

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Jan 16, 2022
2 min

This week’s obsession: Fatcarons

If you’re reading this blog, I know that by now you have at least heard of macarons (and hopefully, thanks to my exasperated efforts, you know how to correctly pronounce it). But today I am here to mess all of that up and introduce you to the latest pastry trend: FATCARONS! Yes, you read that right. Macarons, but FAT. Somehow, these delectable French pastries were Americanized into massive two-and-three-biters by... (drumroll please) Pastry chefs in South Korea!! Can you beli

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This week’s obsession: Champagne & Strawberry Macarons

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Jan 2, 2022
3 min

This week’s obsession: Champagne & Strawberry Macarons

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope your new year is off to a magnificent start! I ended last year on a pretty high note… I came up with a whole new line of macaron flavors that I want to share with you: Boozy Macs! I feel like sometimes good ideas take a long time of thinking and planning, but I came up with this line of desserts in about 7 minutes. I know what I like and I know what I’m capable of, so I set to work thinking about my favorite cocktails (some have been featured

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