I have been baking almost non-stop during this quarantine. As my Instagram will attest, I have been making loaves of bread and cream puffs and fruit tarts and cookies and even some cupcakes. The other day, there were no sweets in the house and my sister was genuinely confused. However, I haven’t gotten to make …
My cousins recently moved into a beautiful historic Victorian home and they invited us over for dinner. I wanted to make a dessert that was thematically consistent with their home, so I decided to make a Victorian Sponge. I mean, Victorian is in the name. Also, after years of watching The Great British Bake Off, …
My neighbor and father’s best friend's birthday was last month, and my dad wanted to surprise him with a birthday cake after taking him out to dinner. I was thinking about cake flavors that he liked, when my sister reminded me that it was a tradition in his family that for every birthday he or …
For our annual polo tailgate, at the invite of some friends, I wanted to make something traditionally English. Mostly because the visiting team happened to be English, but also because a posh, English dessert seemed particularly apt for the occasion. However, it had to be a dessert that could survive being in a car and …
Never Enough Counter Space 