Adventures in cooking and baking.
Homemade Chinese Five Spice Powder - one of my favorite spice blends. Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, cloves, fennel, and cinnamon combine to create a wonderful and uniquely flavored seasoning.
Why should you make your own Chinese Five Spice? First, one of the cool things about making your own spice blends is that you can control the ingredients in the blend, and customize the spices to your taste.
These babka knots are filled with the sweet flavor of eggnog, perfect for the Christmas season. Serve them for breakfast, brunch, or even dessert for a tasty holiday celebration.
These mini eggnog babka twists are made from a dough that you would use for a small-sized loaf. You divide the dough into smaller pieces and cut and twist it into cute little individually-sized knots.
This pear and cherry sourdough bread is loaded with chunks of fresh Asian pear and dried cherries.
This bread is loaded with chunks of firm Asian pear along with dried cherries, and the contrast of the sweet and tart flavors is pretty tasty. This bread is wonderful warm with butter on the day that it is made. It also makes fabulous toast and sandwiches.
This pumpkin martini is like a milkshake in a cocktail glass... only much better.
These Bûche de Noël Cookies are a bite-sized take on everyone's favorite Christmas cake. They are fun to shape, decorate, and especially to eat.
These cookies start with a shortbread-style dough, which is spread with a hazelnut filling and then rolled up before slicing and baking. They are topped with a chocolate ganache with a hint of hazelnut chocolate spread and then finished with cute little holly berry and leaves sprinkles.
These marbled ube cookies start with a vanilla dough, half of which is flavored with ube, a yam with a sweet subtly vanilla flavor and a bright purple color.
These cookies are soft and chewy. They also have a bit of crunch from a generous topping of festive sprinkles!
These browned butter chocolate chunk candy cookies are a wonderful combination of flavors and are the pefect addition to your Christmas cookie recipe collection.
The name of these cookies is a bit of a tongue twister in order to capture all of the things that make these cookies so terrific, including crushed candy coated chocolate, bittersweet chocolate chunks, and browned butter.
