Black Sesame and Strawberry Hamantaschen
A friend brought over some mishloach manot containing, among other things, hamantaschen, the traditional cookie for Purim. This inspired me to look for something for my daughter and I to make also.
Vietnamese Coffee Swirl Brownies
As part of the 2025 NYT Cookie Week, we mentally bookmarked this brownie. Personally, I have a take-it-or-leave-it attitude to them: they’re often very one-dimensional. But the thought of a condensed milk and cream cheese swirl was irresistible.
Gâteau Invisible (Cook’s Illustrated)
We’ve been making this apple cake throughout the fall, but it gets eaten so quickly, I never get a chance to take a photo! We brought it to a few Sukkot meals we were invited to, and it was a hit every time.
Roasted Apple Ice Cream
It’s getting late (and cold) in the year to be making ice cream. Not sure what inspired me to find this ice cream, but it turned out to be an excellent one, full of concentrated apple flavour.
Cranberry Lemon Bars
Sometimes, the whole is not greater than the sum of its parts. Such was the case with this bar recipe, that was too thin, too tart, and too disappointing.
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