Tag: cream cheese

• 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…

  Chaya

  February 26, 2018

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  bake, baking, birthday, cake, carrot cake, cream cheese, cream cheese frosting, delicious, february, food, food blog, photography, recipe, writing

• Classic Cinnamon Buns

  Lately, I think about the transience of life and fear hits me, hard. Every breath I take feels measured, numbered, and I want to fill every moment with every thing. Time wasted hurts in a way that makes me think what are you doing? Live. You have no assurance for tomorrow, or even the rest of…

  Chaya

  November 17, 2017

  Delectables

  baking, buns, butter, cinnamon, cinnamon buns, cream cheese, dairy, delicious, food, frosting, photography, recipes, sugar

• Roasted Blackberry Apricot Ice Cream

  The blackberries were on sale. Big boxes of them, full of ripe fruit- a sure sign of the advent of summer. They were calling to us, singing a song of green fields and sun, and their dark, midnight sheen was bewitching. We bought two cartons. “I bet we finish one box on the way home,”…

  Chaya

  July 19, 2015

  Delectables

  apricots, blackberries, cream cheese, dairy, delicious, dessert, food photography, fruit, heavy cream, ice cream, milk, recipes, seasonal, summer, sweet