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Fennel Coconut Shortbread
This recipe is my latest twist on jeera biscuits, a traditional South Asian shortbread cookie studded with toasted cumin seeds. (My vegan coconut cumin cookies and cumin fennel biscotti were also inspired by the classic teatime snack.) Fennel seeds lend a warm, licorice-like flavor to these savory-sweet cookies, and shredded coconut adds a nice crunch.…
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Pumpkin Walnut Bread
The other day, I roasted some honeynut squash, a slightly sweeter version of butternut squash, and incorporated it into one of the lightest, fluffiest quick breads I’ve ever tasted, adapted from a pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipe on one of my favorite baking blogs, Tutti Dolci. I subtracted the chocolate chips, sweetened the bread with…
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Apple & Peanut Butter Cake
One early fall morning, while snacking on apple slices coated with peanut butter, I wondered how the classic flavor combination would taste in a seasonal dessert. The resulting apple butter and maple syrup cake, with peanut butter and apple cider frosting, is featured in my latest Knockturnal food column. Apple & Peanut Butter Cake Cake…
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Cumin Fennel Biscotti
Jeera biscuits, a South Asian shortbread cookie studded with cumin seeds, and mukhwas, a popular Indian palate cleanser and digestive aid made with fennel and other seeds, are the inspiration behind these savory-sweet, entirely non-traditional biscotti. Thanks to the addition of butter, they are a little softer in the middle than the classic twice-baked Italian…
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Challah Bread Pudding with Apples and Honey
I developed this recipe for an online Rosh Hashanah baking class for preschoolers. The kids had fun tearing the challah into pieces, and watching it soak up a simple custard mixture sweetened with honey. Studded with apples, it’s a wonderful fall dessert (you don’t need to celebrate Rosh Hashanah to enjoy it) and it’s a…
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Vanilla Ice Cream in a Bag
To celebrate the end of summer, I met up with some fellow bakers in a local park, and made this extremely fast and easy version of ice cream. There are many recipes out there on the internet (I used one from Delish.com, which turned out great) but the process is always the same: fill a…
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Israeli Chocolate Balls
Chocolate balls, a casual variation on truffles made with tea biscuits, butter, milk, and melted chocolate, are a popular Israeli dessert and birthday treat. They’re typically made at home, often with help from children. My good friend from high school spent part of her childhood in Israel, where she learned this recipe from a friend’s…
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Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cake
Inspiration for this snack cake – which is really more of a quick bread in consistency, with lots of moisture from yogurt and oil – came from chocolate covered strawberries. The star ingredients are chocolate chips and tangy strawberry pieces, but my favorite part is the crunchy layer of shredded coconut on top. Chocolate is…
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Cinnamon Fig Challah
The other day, I simmered dried figs in water and pureed them for my six-month-old twin sons, who are just beginning to eat solid foods. I used the leftover fig jam as a filling for these beautiful, swirly challah loaves. Cinnamon makes an appearance twice, mixed in with the filling (along with walnuts, which add…
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Wholesome Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These cookies are so gooey, buttery, and addictive, you would never guess they’re made with whole wheat flour and olive oil; there’s no butter in them at all! Those ingredients, along with maple syrup, brown sugar, and pecans, add an earthy, complex flavor to an otherwise classic cookie. Click here for the recipe, in my…
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