Five-Spice Adventure Awaits! Explore a world of flavorful recipes bursting with Asian-inspired warmth. From Five Spice Snickerdoodles to Five Spice Cherry Pie, and more, find your perfect five-spice bake!
I love a good holiday cake and this Cranberry Coffee Cake Recipe with Streusel Topping really delivers! It has everything we want from a delicious coffee cake: rich, buttery sour cream crumb, check! A thick layer of crumbly streusel topping, check! Loaded with lots of cranberries and orange zest for irresistible flavor?! Check check check! This simple coffee cake is…
This Salted Caramel Pumpkin Cheesecake is one of those recipes that you can make a few days ahead, the whole thing, and not give it another thought until dessert time. I mean, does life get much better?! This recipe has been a family and blog favorite since 2014!! I gave it a facelift this year so that it is 100%…
Think of this Five-Spice Cranberry Sauce as regular cranberry sauce but with mega jazz hands! It has all of the notes your looking for in cranberry sauce: classic sweet and tart flavors, with everything amped up with a bit of Chinese Five-Spice powder to keep things interesting. Origin of The Recipe This is the recipe that started it all! I’ve…
I’m spilling the secrets on all of my favorite perfect cookie tips so you can bake better cookies starting today! When writing The Cookie Book I had an entire section dedicated to helping you bake perfect cookies every time. Unfortunately, that section was cut by my editor (as often happens in publishing: it was either that or cut some recipes…
As promised, these Delicious Five-Spice Prune Bars are the second recipe using a spiced prune jam (you can see the first one here); both done in collaboration with the lovely people over at California Prunes! The Flaky Danishes use a spiced prune jam…so if Chinese five-spice powder isn’t your jam, then head over there for the version with cinnamon and…
Here is a collection of my current favorite holiday cookies! There are shipping tips throughout PLUS info on whether each cookie is suitable for shipping. Go forth and bake friends! For many of these cookies the dough can be frozen ahead of time (this is a great tip for drop cookies). Some cookies, such as macarons, are best gifted the…
The only thing better than a snickerdoodle is these Five-Spice Snickerdoodles! These cookies are super soft, light and chewy with the slightest crispiness around the edges. All of the classic hallmark flavors and textures of a snickerdoodle are here, with a bit of five-spice powder to give them some jazzy hands. If you love classic cookies as much as I…
Holy. Crap. She’s here. I am BEYOND excited that The Cookie Book is finally out in the world. It took a lot of sore feet, tired eyes and more butter + sugar than you can possibly imagine, but it is so worth it. I am so freaking proud of this book and I can’t wait for you to have it…
Prepare yourself for these beautifully rustic cranberry apple hand pies. This recipe is a no-self-control recipe. The kind where I had two cranberry apple hand pies before noon and had to talk myself off the ledge about eating another before dinner. You can’t eat just one. I seriously dare you. And if you have that kind of self control, I…
So, my KitchenAid mixer broke on Saturday. Devastated. Just wanted to get that out of the way because it’s pretty much all I can think about. And my computer start-up disc is full and Photoshop keeps telling me my ‘scratch disc’ is full. Which I’m now pretty sure are the same thing. I think. I’ve spent the entire day transferring things…
I love love love to add Chinese five-space powder to warm up baked goods and treats and it is no less stunning in this Five-Spice Fig Jam. I’ve been making it for years with plums (thanks to two plum trees) but found it was equally fabulous made with figs. And so dang good on a cheese board! If you love…
There are so many things that make this Cranberry Cheesecake the perfect holiday dessert! First, and most importantly, EVERYTHING is make ahead. You can make the sugared cranberries and the cheesecake several (up to three!) days ahead of serving. Second, it’s pretty easy to make, as long as you follow the tips below: mix your ingredients slowly and use a…
The holidays are here. Did you know that? Where did they come from? How did this happen? I haven’t bought one gift. Made not one list. Nary a tree graces the living room, nor lights hanging from the eaves. And, I’m embarrassed to admit, we might even have some Halloween decorations still strewn about. It’s weighing heavily on me. I’m usually…
port cranberry + apple petite rosette tarts Ohh how badly I wanted to share these with you and equally did not want to write this post. Mostly because I knew I would want to really spell everything out for you, so as not to leave you hanging with dough under your finger nails and cranberry sauce strewn about…and I knew…
I don’t have a ton to say. I ruptured a disc in my back several years ago (which I don’t talk about much because it makes me feel like the old-lady emoji) and I seem to have re-annoyed it. After standing on my feet all morning baking cranberry orange scones my toes were going numb and it was hurting like…
pumpkin gnocchi with creamy sage browned butter + five-spice pomegranate molasses I was recently challenged with making a savory dish, that could travel (and stay fresh) for several hours and it had to be complicated. I needed to make it at home, drive to LA, have it tasted and still be marvelous after several hours in transit…whilst looking like a rock…
I don’t bake pie nearly enough. Every time I do I wonder why I don’t make it more often. It’s actually never as time-consuming as you think it is. This morning I woke up (yawn, stretch, coffee) and made pie by 10:30am. We should do this every Sunday. It’s almost like meditating. With dough, sugar and cherries as our om.…
I was excited when I saw Joy the Baker’s Baking Boot Camp making this whole wheat oatmeal bread. I really wanted to make those beautiful loaves (that post was especially gorg’), but I kept thinking that I wanted a little more happening with the bread. A little pizazz. Some flair. Some jazz hands. So I did something that I promised…