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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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This week’s obsession: Macaron Cake Design

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Oct 31, 2021
2 min

This week’s obsession: Macaron Cake Design

Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope you have a super fun costume planned for trick or treating tonight! I don’t think I could ever top my costume from last year: But I found a creative way to dress up as a recognizable character AND stay warm-ish while surviving the cold San Franciscan nights. I dressed up as the fictional Polynesian goddess of life, Te Fiti, from Moana. In the movie she has long, mossy sleeves on her earthen dress and I knew I could make that into a cozy costu

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This week’s obsession: A Lesson in Humidity

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Sep 19, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: A Lesson in Humidity

What is your response when someone tells you that you can’t do something? Typically, I let it roll right off me with the internal thought combo of “this guy/gal doesn’t even know what I’m capable of” and “I don’t really care enough about this to even bother” and that’s usually why I don’t rise to the occasion when someone tells me that I can’t. However. I was once in my twenties and had a very different response to someone telling me that I couldn’t do it. My response was gen

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This week’s obsession: A Letter Cake

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Aug 22, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: A Letter Cake

I’m still the Cookie Monster this week, if you can believe that. (And of course still a little bit of Charlotte.) It’s more evident now than ever in the cake I made for this week. It’s actually an excellent blend of the two characters now that I think about it. My birthday was earlier this month, and I have to admit that I was in a god-awful mood about it. So much so that I didn’t even bother about making my own birthday cake, which as most of you know by now is my absolute f

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This week’s obsession: Dulce de Leche

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May 9, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: Dulce de Leche

Happy Mother's Day, everyone! Usually for Mother’s Day, I feel the urge to make light and happy morsels of deliciousness that center around flowers, pearls, and the color pink. I didn’t feel that way this year. For some reason when I was deciding what I should make this weekend, I kept picturing the face of indulgent enjoyment that my mom makes and the accompanying low purr of her appreciative “ooohhhhh” when she tastes something decadent. Kind of like the shudder from the hy

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This week’s obsession: Easter Eggs

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Apr 4, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: Easter Eggs

Ok am I a total fat kid, or have Cadbury Caramel Eggs gotten smaller?! I could have sworn that they used to be colossal, delicious, primo chocolate vessels for my favoritest caramel* ever. I also could have sworn that they spanned more than part of the length of my dainty fingers. Do you remember them being much larger than this or am I dreaming? *caramel that I haven’t made myself. This week I got myself a box* of Cadbury Caramel Eggs so I could have a semblance of an Easter

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This week’s obsession: Valentine’s Day Cookies

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Feb 21, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Valentine’s Day Cookies

Have you learned a new skill in this last year? I’m trying to make sure that my entire time in quarantine hasn’t been a complete waste by reading tons of books, making time to catch up with friends, and even running and doing yoga on (rare) occasion! One of my girlfriends is learning the trombone right now in her free time, another one turned her jewelry making hobby into an actual business and is partnering with retailers in her area to sell her products (I’m a big fan of Th

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This week’s obsession: Chocolate Raspberry Macarons

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Feb 7, 2021
2 min

This week’s obsession: Chocolate Raspberry Macarons

No but seriously. I know that cauliflower is having its moment, but nobody wants that for Valentine’s Day. I can tell you what they do want though… Literally anything else. Or maybe something sweet? Like candy? Cookies? Macarons? Back in the day when I was getting really good at making macarons, I was so focused on them coming out absolutely perfect that I never entertained the idea of getting creative with the shape of the cookie. I wanted flawlessness - perfect feet, comple

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This week’s obsession: Another Year Older

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Nov 16, 2020
3 min

This week’s obsession: Another Year Older

Sorry for the delay, fellow rebels. I partied a little too hard with my pod this weekend and couldn’t even begin to think about writing a description of how I created this number cake. And say what you will about this pandemic, but at least it’s being equitable about everyone’s birthdays - by the time it’s all said and done, we will each have had a socially-distant birthday (some of us will likely have more than one, but we’ll all at least get one). But that’s exactly what we

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This week’s obsession: Butterbeer Macarons

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Oct 11, 2020
5 min

This week’s obsession: Butterbeer Macarons

I am compelled to explain the difference between 'Macarons' and 'Macaroons'. Again. Because oh boy is there a difference. A lot of differences, actually. Let’s start here: Every time I make macarons for an event, several people inevitably approach me to ask, "Did you make the macaROONS?" It makes my eye twitch with how hard I have to fight the urge to tell them that I did not make macaroons, but that I did make macarons. In my head I just repeat to myself, "Don't be that girl

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This week’s obsession: Non-Traditional Thanksgiving Desserts

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Nov 24, 2019
5 min

This week’s obsession: Non-Traditional Thanksgiving Desserts

I’ve never been a huge fan of typical Thanksgiving desserts. You know, like pumpkin pie. (Meh.) Pecan pie. (Tolerable. And only if you have enough fresh whipped cream on top to cover the taste.) Candied yams. (I guess some people serve that one with dinner, and that baffles me even more than eating the dish as a dessert.) Also with my previous admission that I just don’t really like pie, I guess it’s really no surprise that I’ve always found T’giving desserts to be lacking. A

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This week’s obsession: Lilikoi and Fault Lines (Part 2)

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Aug 4, 2019
3 min

This week’s obsession: Lilikoi and Fault Lines (Part 2)

It turns out that I have a lot more to say about how delicious lilikoi is. So to start with, make sure you read my first post about HERE. Next I want to show you how delicious lilikoi macarons are. I mean just look at those little babies! OMG so good. So yummy. So elusive. I’m not kidding, I have yet to see lilikoi in a grocery store, so I really have no idea how I’m ever going to make these again. Which is a shame because I could eat these all day long. It um, actually got t

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