Easy One-Bowl Banana Bread
This is not my typical banana bread. This is my pleasing banana bread which I make for my family. My family isn’t as enthusiastic about the cakes I make with olive oil, spelt, coconut sugar. They prefer their cakes with…
Self-Sabotaging Blueberry Cake
What would you have made for 16 teenagers for lunch? I’ll tell you what the other parents made or bought for the robotics team: pizza, Chinese food, pizza, turkey wraps, burgers, tacos, and pasta. I made hummus, potato and herb…
Skillet Cornbread With Nectarine
When the Newmans offer you to stay in their country home on the Lake of Glenville, you don’t think about it and hesitate. You postpone your flight back home, and you stay three more days North Carolina. Even if you’ve…
GF & DF Lemon Poppy Pancakes
Does the world need another pancake recipe? Do you need another black t-shirt? This is actually not another pancake recipe, it’s the most cakey pancake I ever made. I make pancakes on a weekly yet I rarely make the same…
Banana Bread With Chocolate Chunks
We are still in quarantine, cooking and baking nonstop. Hope you’re all doing well and getting the most out of this situation. Sending my love and strength to anyone who needs it xxs I already posted two or more banana…
Easy Banana Bread (Dairy-Free)
NEVER THROW AWAY OVERLY RIPE BANANAS! Especially if they’re brownish and honey-like. When they reach that state their flavor is intense. They are also very sweet so you don’t need to add lots of sugar to the batter. I used…
Gluten-Free Almond Pear Cake (DF)
Is it normal to be organized but messy? Fearful of failure but courages to start all over again? Love all foods but be fussy? Terrified of cockroaches but totally okay with spiders? Hate to fly but love to travel? Skeptical…
Vegan Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cake
Up until a month ago I didn’t like the flavor of sweet peanut butter, such as in PB&J and Reese’s. It took me almost a decade to like peanut butter in general and another decade to like it sweetened. It’s…
Vegan caramelized apple tart
I know that Thanksgiving is tomorrow so I hope you get this recipe before. It’s the best and easiest pie I ever made. I wish though that puff pastry had a nutrition value, but unfortunately it doesn’t. The fact that it’s…
1-Bowl Vegan Chocolate Cake
Three words to describe this cake: moist, dense and rich. It finishes usually in thirty minutes. My husband found the recipe in Martha Stewart’s Living Magazine. The picture and recipe didn’t look exciting but I didn’t have eggs and I was curious. I made it a few minor changes.
Simple Blood Orange Bars
Our 5-year-old Alex (aka Alexander, aka Jacob, aka Sooshi) is obsessed with names. Every day, ten times a day, he asks my husband or me if we like a certain name. Most days I find his name obsession cute, but…
Simple Almond Lemon Cake
Eema (me): “Alex, this is delicious, are you sure you don’t want to be a pastry chef when you grow up?”Alex: “What is a pastry chef?”Eema: “A pastry chef is someone who makes cakes and cookies for a living.”Alex: “What…
Simple Dairy-Free Asian Pear Cake
Two years ago, I accepted the fact that my body and dairy don’t get along, so I gave it up almost completely. I rarely miss it and if I do miss a nice buttery pastry I make this cake. Not…
Black Cherry Jammers
I was so happy when she said yes and wrote this post for my blog. Introducing, Yael, the woman who thought me almost everything I know about baking! When Shelly asked me to be a guest at her blog, I…