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Spelt and Pistachio Rhubarb Cake
My mom begs me to stop baking. “Please Chaya, no more cake!” she pleads, as I pull another one from the oven. And I have to admit, I understand where she is coming from. The cake in question, topped with shiny, lacquered chunks of rhubarb, smelling deeply of orange and vanilla, is one in a…
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Strawberry Brioches with Orange Almond Cream
It’s Spring! Well, not really. There’s not a flower in sight, and the trees are as bare as ever. But it’s starting. Slowly. I’ve begun to hear the faint chirping of birds again, music to my ears, and one morning when I stepped out, it was misty and cool and it felt like Spring was…
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Chai Spiced Spelt Carrot Cake
It’s late at night when I decide to make carrot cake. The dishes are done, the counters are sparkling clean. Prime time to get messy. I could drag out the food processor, but I decide to grate the carrots by hand. Food processors have so many parts, and I can already envision orange shreds of…
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Chocolate Babka Doughnuts with Cacao Nib Sugar
Hey everyone! I’m excited to share my latest work for The Nosher, these Chocolate Babka Doughnuts, just in time for Chanukah! Made with an eggy, buttery brioche dough, filled with a rich chocolate pastry cream and rolled in cacao nib sugar, these epic doughnuts are a mashup of the ultimate Chanukah treat- sufganiyot- with my…
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Herbed Wild Salmon with Roasted Summer Vegetables
My new job as a baker means lots of new side effects! Here are some of them: 1. Muscles! Whereas I couldn’t even lift one initially, I can now carry 50 lb. bags of flour across a room without breaking a sweat. Progress! 2. Back pain! Or stiff joints/tense shoulders/tense everything. Professional baking is like…
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Israel + Big News
Isn’t it crazy how life works? It seems like just yesterday I was telling you all about my summer job/internship as a baker in a Brooklyn restaurant. Then, a little bit later, I said goodbye as I headed to Israel for school for a couple of months. Well, that was almost 7 incredible months ago.…
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Six Impossible Things
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!” – White Queen, Alice in Wonderland. Six impossibly awesome things. I can’t believe it’s already March! While my birthday month always seems to sneak up on me, this year’s been a little crazier than usual: I had jaw surgery almost two weeks ago, so its…
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Blood Orange, Coconut and Vanilla Oatmeal
A thousand opening sentences preceded this one. Every time my fingers typed out a few words, I immediately deleted them. It was as if the things I wanted to write somehow got lost in the space between my mind and my hands. So I guess I’ll just write the damn thing. I’m having jaw surgery this…
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Blueberry Cheese Danishes
Everyone wants to know why I’m making cheese danishes. They make comments like “Wow, so much butter!” or “These are a little more involved than brownies, aren’t they?” Yes. Yes, they are. And no, I don’t have a reason for these, other than: it’s February. It’s snowy and cold. And there’s butter in the fridge.…
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