November 20, 2023
Worrying I hadn’t utilized the pumpkin purΓ©e enough, I made a unique soft, cake-like babka by making some substitutions to this recipe. First, I used all-purpose flour instead of bread flour, resulting in less gluten in the dough. I also used coconut oil instead of vegan block butter because I Read more…
December 5, 2022
I made another loaf for a friend. Here is the step-by-step pictorial.
November 26, 2022
This recipe from Domestic Gothess is really great. It will be my new go-to! Just watch it all unfold below. Firstly, I don’t have instant yeast on hand… because I have a huge thing of active dry yeast I have been using since the “lockdowns.” So I have to activate Read more…
December 7, 2020
A belated birthday Babka for my friend would be cause to make a huge mess in the kitchen today. Using the crazy-easy recipe from Make It Dairyfree, I created a gorgeously curvaceous loaf of chocolate babka. To follow are my hopefully helpful notes on the process… 1.) Check your yeast. Read more…
November 23, 2020
Yes, yes, I got bit by the Ube bug… the bright purple potato that has been sweeping the baking nation. But fresh ube, which many mistake for one of the several purple sweet potato varieties, is pretty hard to attain in these parts. Luckily, the Stokes Purple sweet potato would Read more…
July 10, 2020
After not feeling much baking motivation as of late, today I got my groove back! I made another two loaves on this decidedly inside day. Using Lil Cookie’s Chocolate Babka recipe, motivated by an all-day binge-watch of The Great British Bake Off, my counter now has 4 loaves of bread. Read more…
May 30, 2020
We’re up to the 7th edition of Scenes from a Quarantine! But the outside world is getting far more active than it’s been in months. But people are stressed. It all feels kind of weird, all of this restraint. A springtime trip to the nursery is always a pick-me-up. I Read more…
May 13, 2020
I thought I made this up. The idea was born in my brain and not in a Google search. Then I searched it and a few folks had thought of it, though mostly it was a reposting of the same recipe by The Nosher/My Jewish Learning by on several different Read more…
October 5, 2019
One thing I like about the onset of Fall is I can tolerate a day of errands in Manhattan. Manhattan that is so steamy and unbearable in the summer. For fuel first, Michaeli Bakery on the Lower East Side. The namesake is for pastry chef Adir Michaeli, former head of Read more…
