I spent this past weekend down at the beach celebrating a friend’s bachelorette. I volunteered to help with Sunday morning breakfast, and decided on pre-making several batches of scones to freeze at home and then bring down to the beach to bake fresh for breakfast. Our resources down at the beach are somewhat limited. We…
Category: Baking
Lemon Blueberry Ricotta Cake
A little something to sweetened up this year’s Mother’s Day brunch. Loosely based off of a Giada de Laurentiis’ recipe and a basic ricotta cheesecake recipe. Ingredients: 1 pint fresh Blueberries + 1/2 pint fresh Blueberries 2 lb (32 oz) Whole-milk Ricotta Cheese 4 Eggs 3/4 cup Sugar 1 tsp Salt 2 tsp Vanilla Extract 1…
Honey Almond Biscotti
Honey Almond Biscotti – a delicately flavored, crunchy Italian cookie that is perfect proportioned for dunking into your coffee. In my experience store-bought biscotti has always been hit or miss with a tendency to be cloyingly sweet and hard enough to break your teeth. In direct contrast homemade biscotti can be crisp, crunchy, come in…
Pesto Knots
I have been eyeballing garlic knot recipes for a few months now, and had yet to find one that would inspire me enough to test it out. My main problem with them being – NOT enough garlic! Sprinkling some minced garlic onto of a baked piece of dough was not enticing enough to be worth…
The Ephemeral Bee 