It should come as no surprise, particularly to those of you who have seen me arrive to work at 2am wearing a fresh coat of glitter eye shadow, that I am a sucker for girlie decorations. Most of my cakes start out simply, ...
This past summer I was invited to be featured in an alumae profile on the St. Kate's website. One longer-than-expected interview later, I got word that there was interest in a longer article for the school magazine accom ...
Miami was way more seeped in Latino and particularly Mexican culture than I was ready for. Sure, I knew that Spanish would be more common there than in Minnesota--the tundra in the north populated by German, Norwegian an ...
No hot chocolate can ever be considered truly 'healthy.' I get that. But with a base of coconut milk, nutrient-rich matcha tea, and fruit-based, corn-syrup-free homemade marshmallows, I think my version is about as close ...
Tastes like childhood, looks like successful adulting. This recipe might break the internet. I'm not kidding--there is nothing not to love about this miraculous little creation. And how could it not be amazi ...
Sometimes I find myself looking so dedicatedly at East Asia and France for culinary inspiration that I forget how many wonderful flavors exist in the rest of the world. Being in Miami has been the wake up call that I ...
This entremets began as a challenge to create a recipe using citrus as the base flavor for each element of one cohesive dessert. As a part of my pastry course, each 'entremets week' and 'plated dessert week' I was ask ...
The other day I started pondering what my next recipe should be. What dessert have I been neglecting recently? I asked myself. I have been focusing more on French techniques, and I can bake a cake with my eyes closed ...
I'm not a fan of loaf cakes. I find them oddly difficult to bake correctly, and there is too much of a challenge looking for a recipe that is simple and creative at the same time. So up until this point, instead of d ...
Its not hard to find carrot cake in America. It seems like every grocery store, bakery and cafe has some sort of dense carrot-y cake topped with piles of gloopy cream cheese frosting. Equal parts overly sweet and nost ...