Financiers are a French tea cake made with mostly almond flour. This gives them the most deliciously soft texture and nutty flavor. This recipe uses strawberries inside the financiers, and they are topped with a rhubarb and rose Swiss meringue buttercream to really stay with the seasonal flavors. The buttercream gets its seasonal flavor from roasted rhubarb…
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Continue ReadingSpringtime sips mighttt just be my all time favorite, especially ones like the Empress Gin Rubarb & Rose! Made with homemade rhubarb and rose syrup, muddled strawberries, and featuring Empress 1908’s Elderflower Rose Gin, this cocktail is full of delicate floral notes, and classic spring flavors. All about Empress Elderflower Rose Gin Empress Gin is known…
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Continue ReadingAs someone who loves baking seasonally, I love incorporating fresh herbs into my bakes. This rosemary hot milk cake is made with, as the name suggests, hot milk. It gives the cake a wonderful texture and flavor: for this recipe, I infused the milk with rosemary and topped it with a lemon icing to give it…
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Continue ReadingMaking bread is one of my absolute favorite things in the world. I got my start in baking through sourdough, and just took off from there. I’m at the point now where I very rarely buy bread, because I’m baking it so often. But as wonderful as it is to enjoy a loaf of freshly baked…
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Continue ReadingEvery summer I’m absolutely entranced by all the colors of tomatoes and peppers that pop up at the markets. Here in Los Angeles, we’re lucky that nightshade season bleeds well into Autumn, so we can enjoy these beauties for some extra time during the year. This skillet cornbread with tomato pepper jam recipe is a celebration…