Tag: holiday
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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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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…
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Roasted Potato Salad with Lentils & Asparagus
Happy 4th, everyone! I hope you are all barbecuing meat, grilling corn and drinking lots of beachside rosè. If you are, please have me in mind. I just started my new job as a pastry cook in Brooklyn (!!!) and our opening date is July 10th, so I’ve pretty much been working nonstop. No vacation…
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Classic Jelly Doughnuts
Happy happy Chanukah! I hope you’re all eating so many latkes. And doughnuts. I’ve already had 4, and it’s mostly thanks to these! I never want to lay eyes on another doughnut but I think it’s worth it. Only time will tell. What makes these doughnuts so special? A lot of things actually. First: they’re…
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Grateful
Hi! Happy day-after-Thanksgiving! Pie for breakfast, anyone? I’m sipping on some tea right now, reflecting on last night’s festivities, which I spent with my close friends. I cooked up a wonderful feast (we did end up having a turkey, which means I now have leftovers for at least a week) and we gorged ourselves on pies, dinner…
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Cranberry Pear Crumble Pie
“Close your eyes. Let go of any tensions you’re holding on to. Breathe through the spaces. Relax.” I am laying in yoga class, still upon a thin rubber mat and inhaling deeply after an hour that has stretched and filled me. There is total silence in the room, besides for the faint, other-worldy lilt of flute music. The…
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