Tag: food blog

• Gingerbread Snowflakes

  I said I was a cookie masochist, didn’t I? And it’s true. While browsing through Sur La Table the other day, I saw this snowflake cutter and suddenly, visions of crisp, snappy gingerbread cookies, intricately iced in winter white and dressed up with gleaming sprinkles filled my mind. It didn’t matter that I’d only just…

  Chaya

  December 25, 2017

  Delectables

  baking, chanukah, christmas, cookies, december, decorating, delicious, food, food blog, gingerbread, hanukkah, icing, photography, recipes, royal icing, seasonal, winter, writing

• Candied Grapefruit Shortbread

  Lately, I feel I have gotten too complacent in the kitchen. I am too used to old routines, too comfortable. It’s time to shake things up. To do something I am unused to. I want something of a challenge, so I decide to make something I usually stay from: cookies. Cookies bother me because they…

  Chaya

  December 19, 2017

  Uncategorized

  baking, blogging, butter, chanukah, christmas, citrus, cookies, december, delicious, food, food blog, grapefruit, holiday, photography, seasonal, wordpress, writing

• 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…

  Chaya

  December 5, 2017

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  babka, baking, chanukah, chocolate, december, delicious, doughnuts, food, food blog, hanukkah, holiday, jewish, kosher, photography, recipes

• Spiced Whiskey Honey Cake with Whipped Mascarpone

  While making lists and going over menu ideas for this year’s Rosh Hashana meals, I was struck by how little relevance was given to the honey cake. Sure, it was on the menu- it’s too traditional to do away with, and there are always a few diehard honey cake fans who would raise a hell…

  Chaya

  September 17, 2017

  Delectables

  allspice, baking, cake, cinnamon, clove, concord grapes, delicious, figs, food, food blog, food blogger, ginger, grapes, holiday, honey, honey cake, honeycomb, jewish, kosher, mascarpone, nutmeg, photography, pomegranate, recipes, rosh hashana, seasonal, september, spices, whiskey, writing