Author name: jason

Just a guy who discovered he loves to bake.

Maritozzi for Easter-over
cookies, GBBO, Pastry

Easter-over Bakes

Easter-over bakes! I’m Jewish (with an emphasis on the ish), and my wife and the rest of the family are varying flavors and levels of Christian. This year Easter and Passover happened to overlap, so of course I needed to bake for both. The first of the Easter-over bakes is the Passover one. I went […]

Yuzu Strawberry Birthday Cake
cake

Strawberry Yuzu Birthday Cake

I made a Strawberry Yuzu Birthday Cake for my wife. Her request was “something with yuzu”, and I had free reign from there. Yuzu and berry seemed like a good match from the research I did, so I decided on strawberry. I always try to go all out to impress her for her birthday bakes.

Lime in the Coconut
cake, GBBO

Lime In The Coconut

I put the lime in the coconut! For my in-law’s joint birthdays (they are like 3 days apart) they requested a coconut cake. I didn’t just want to make plain coconut cake so I brainstormed ideas with my wife. She suggested a lime/coconut cake as a good combination. Since I’m also trying to do a

Mini Red Velvet Cakes
cake, GBBO

Red Velvet Mini Cakes

I decided to bake along with the Great British Bake Off again this season, as I did in 2020, and started with Red Velvet Mini Cakes. From the week one options, my wife requested Red Velvet from the technical round. I then decided to make mini cakes instead of one large cake. This basically made

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