The Ephemeral Bee

Sausage Bread

I took a Guinness based pizza dough, loaded it up with sausage, and coiled it into a bread loaf. Not too shabby, although, next time I might leave it in its jelly roll form and bake it in a long loaf pan, instead of coiling it all together. It took about two hours to bake…

Cheese Empanadas

There are many, many types and forms of empanadas. At its most basic an empanada just means something enveloped in bread or a wheat dough. When I envision empanadas, I think back to the empanadas of my childhood – the light, crisply fried pockets of melted cheese, dusted in powdered sugar – the hallmarks of…

Coconut Cake

Another dinner party. Another cake. A light, fluffy coconut cake with chocolate buttercream and a chocolate ganache filling. The coconut cake is one of my Mom’s favorite recipes, and the one and only time I attempted to bake this particular cake, prior to this, resulted in one of my most memorable baking disasters. My family…

Mini Victoria Sandwiches

Lately I have been binge watching old BBC murder mystery series, and one of the recurring themes, aside from the copious amounts of tea and beautifully manicured cottage gardens, are the town bake-offs. I have lost count of the number of people that have keeled over dead after eating a heaping forkful of Victoria Sponge….