Author name: jason

Just a guy who discovered he loves to bake.

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Speculoos Hamentaschen

Speculoos Hamentaschen for Purim! I hadn’t baked for almost a month because I came down with covid19. The good news is, I recovered, and I’m fine now. Feeling better happened to correspond to the time of Purim, so this was a perfect bake to get back into things. Now in my mind, there is pretty […]

Chocolate Babka
GBBO

Chocolate Babka for GBBO Week 4

Chocolate Babka is one of my favorite things to eat and to bake, so I was thrilled it was a challenge for the GBBO bake along. I usually follow Uri Scheft’s (of Breads Bakery) recipe for babka. Breads Bakery is a fantastic bakery in NYC and the chocolate babka is their signature. They also do

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Rainbow Bagels for GBBO Week 3

Rainbow bagels. I was really hoping this wouldn’t be the challenge, but what can you do? As a Jewish New Yorker, I take bagels pretty seriously. The rainbow bagel is a goofy gimmick that really doesn’t need to exist. To put this in perspective, I object to the cinnamon raisin bagel (much to my wife’s

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