My cookbook, 100 Cookies, goes on sale August 25th My cookbook, 100 Cookies, goes on sale August 25th, and as a special thank you for preordering, you can now receive an ebook of 10 bonus recipes! One of the new recipes included is the Brown Butter Cookie Dough Skillet Brownie creation that I posted here a few weeks back (above) as well as a handful of other recipes that didn't make it into the book, (such as Espresso Irish Cream Brownies, Lime Chocolate Poppy Seed Sables, and a new Pan-Banging recipe!) I also have links to a playlist I have been working on for two years while I tested recipes for the book - it is all the songs I listened to over and over during that time (over 11 hours of music 🤣). I have the playlists on both @applemusic and @spotify . If you have pre-ordered the book, head to the link in my profile and click the first tab in my linktree- it will take you to my website with instructions. The download will be sent to your email immediately. Also, please share pictures of what you make from the ebook with me - use the hashtag #100cookies . Thank you so much for your support! ❤️❤️❤️
Strawberry Shortcake Cake! This is a post from las Strawberry Shortcake Cake! This is a post from last year, but I’m currently finishing up photos for my 3rd cookbook (a Holiday baking book!) so my kitchen is filled with pumpkin and mint and cinnamon roll-type treats (not a bad thing, of course, but not really July-weather related). This shortcake cake can also be made as a half sheet cake (last photo, flag version) which is usually how I make it (my FIL’s bday is on July 4th and he requests the flag, but a scattering of berries will also work just as well). Link to the recipe in my bio!
Morning buns, for Saturday night. Morning buns, for Saturday night.
Hello my fellow cookie lovers! Today my 12 year ol Hello my fellow cookie lovers! Today my 12 year old daughter told me she’d like to finally learn how to make my pan-banging cookies, so I had to tell someone how excited I am, ha (her baking enthusiasm waxes and wanes, depending on the day. I just showed her @littlechefizzy ‘s wonderful account and she is ready to bake again). I also want to highlight #blackpublishingpower ! If you can, please consider supporting two Black authors this week by purchasing their books. I want to highlight a few cookbooks I ordered yesterday: A New World Sourdough by @artisanbryan , Jubilee by @tonitiptonmartin , and Vegetable Kingdom by @bryantterry . Also check out their beautiful Instagram pages! And let me know what other books I should get (doesn’t have to be cookbooks.) ❤️
Way back in 2016 I went over to @zoebakes house an Way back in 2016 I went over to @zoebakes house and she made this incredible dacquoise with blackberries and cream. The meringue base is inspired by the brutti ma buoni from Tasting Rome, co-authored by @kristinagillfood . (Brutti ma buoni means ugly but delicious in Italian, and also is the name of meringues loaded with toasted hazelnuts.) I made Zoe whip the meringue by hand for photos (which she still might be mad at me about) but the end result was incredible. I highly recommend this cookbook - Kristina’s photographs are gorgeous, and her recipes shine (I keep hearing about her pasta recipes from the book, too, and will be making that this week 😍). I have the recipe link for the dacquoise in my profile! And swipe to see a quick peek at Tasting Rome.
Chocolate cake, for Tuesday evening. I want to hig Chocolate cake, for Tuesday evening. I want to highlight a magazine I just discovered (although it’s been around for awhile!) - @whetstonemagazine ; a digital and print magazine on food origin and food culture. It’s stunning. I have a link to their webpage in my stories. I also have a link to a James Baldwin piece (Letter From a Region in My Mind) that has given me much food for thought the past few days; I’m going to have to give it a re-read. (I don’t have a link to the chocolate cake recipe, but I do have several chocolate snacking cakes on my site if needed.)
The first photo (by @melody.heide ) is a mural of The first photo (by @melody.heide ) is a mural of George Floyd, painted on the store of Cup Foods, where he was murdered in south Minneapolis. The second photo is by local photographer @patiencezalanga - taken in south Minneapolis near the store as well. My heart breaks every time I look at it. I’ve spent the last five days watching my little city, Minneapolis, burn in real time. I haven't been able to get the first words of A Tale of Two Cities out of my head for weeks: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us..." The realization of the need for change often starts in extremes; when few are living so well, ignoring the multitudes who aren't. I've never felt that my life didn't hold value to my community or my country. I've never felt desperate. For the most part, I've lived the best of times. I ask you to Please. Please. Listen. Don't dismiss the experiences of Black Americans and people of color. Allow yourself to ask uncomfortable questions about racism, systems, and institutions set up to benefit some at the expense of others. This isn't politics - this is daily life for so many people. We ALL deserve to live the best of times. Would you be willing to reimagine your community, an America (and world!) where this is possible? I want to point you again to @patiencezalanga – her Instagram feed is a beautiful visual diary and her stories are of events taking place right now in our city. If you can give, @visitlakestreet has a fund set up to help small business on Lake Street in Minneapolis rebuild. For wonderful Black food accounts follow @bryantterry @sonofasouthernchef @chocolateforbasil @grandbabycakes @foodieinnewyork @thekitchenista @thesaltedtable please list your favorite accounts in the comments!) I will be posting some other links in my Instagram stories to articles (food for thought) and other places to help and give. I see you, I hear you, I stand by you. Black lives matter.
Good morning! just wanted to let you know that you Good morning! just wanted to let you know that you can win an advance PRINT copy of my next book, 100 Cookies, over on @goodreads ! Twenty copies will be given away. (Giveaway for US residents only, sorry! 💔) I have a link to the giveaway in my IG stories. Good luck!! 🤞#100cookies #goodreads (Link to these #panbanging cookies in my profile!)
My weekend baking project: Strawberry Poppy Seed B My weekend baking project: Strawberry Poppy Seed Buns! This is a fabulous recipe from @thebakefeed and one I love to make as the weather gets warmer, but isn’t too hot where I regret turning on the oven (so, in Minnesota, sometime in our two weeks of spring). What are you baking this weekend?? Recipe link in my profile!
I made a skillet brownie for a project I’m worki I made a skillet brownie for a project I’m working on, and told my kids they could have a bite or two when I was done photographing it. This is what I found 3 minutes later. 😂😬 (popping back to say: the spoons are from @target ! I got them a few years ago - they sold them in store, not in sets. I don’t know if they still have them? But I think so. ❤️)
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