December 24th is my Brother In Law’s birthday. There’s a long standing family tradition of him getting a giant chocolate chip cookie cake for his birthday. This year he requested something different, a cheesecake, but he still wanted chocolate chop cookie incorporated somehow if possible. This lead me to some googling which turned up lots […]
This past weekend my wife and I attended a potluck friendsgiving brunch. Of course I decided to bake something, and babka seemed like the obvious choice. I originally intended to just make Breads Bakery’s Chocolate Babka recipe. When I said I was bringing babka someone from the group requested cinnamon, citing Seinfeld’s “Cinnamon takes a
Simple Crusty Bread – I was going away for a few days and my wife wanted me to bake her a bread before I left. I didn’t have time to do an overnight bread so I decided to try a this recipe I’d seen on the NY Times site. I made a few slight changes
I made a standard FWSY overnight wheat bread last week, and I decided to crust it in some rolled oats to fancy it up a bit. It ended up being one of the visually nicest loaves I’ve ever baked. I used parchment paper to transfer it into the dutch oven, and the parchment is what
I did a couple of father’s day bakes. My dad is no longer with us, but my father in law had a request – a coconut cake. I also baked a bread because I never go to the inlaws without a bread, they always love it. First up, the cake.. I wanted to make something