Because every baker needs a simi-functional lemon bar recipe… and I’ve dealt with my fair share of dysfunctional ones in the past. Believe me. Some of my biggest baking disasters can be traced back to lemon bars. Below is a recipe that has yet to fail me, is super simple, and requires no additional frills…
Category: Baking
Blueberry Coffee Cake
Blueberry season has arrived! At last! It seems to have arrived late this year, strange considering the unusually warm summer, but my blueberry bushes started producing their first berries last week. This is the first year that they have produced enough fruit to bake with, which is exciting, considering that they are of a tarter…
Vanilla Pound Cake
I have heard that the old rule of thumb behind pound cake is that you combine together four simple ingredients; a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs, and a pound of butter. Just that simple, right? In all my years of baking pound cake, and the countless recipes that I’ve…
Humintas
I’m racking my brain for the best way to describe a huminta, and all that I can come up with is the Bolivian version of a tamale, but that seems like a tragically inefficient way of categorizing these wonderful cheesy pastry. This Bolivian speciality consists of a sweet corn dough, stuffed with a salty white…
The Ephemeral Bee 