By Nastassia on March 25, 2012
I like to muffinize things. I muffinize desserts, like cheesecake, so they are cute, compact and individual sized. I muffinize flavors I enjoy, like apple pie muffins or pancake muffins or donut muffins. You get the picture right? In my quest to muffinize the world, I attempted this Monday to adapt Dorie Greenspan’s Coffee Break [...]
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By Nastassia on March 23, 2012
Do you have a favorite nut? Are you an almond admirer or a pecan freak or are walnuts your thing? For me as much as I love almonds, pecans and walnuts (cashews are good on their own but don’t like them in desserts) I really have a thing for pistachios. It is weird really because [...]
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By Nastassia on March 19, 2012
So it is probably no secret, but I tend to overindulge. I mean really overindulge. Not like I had an extra big slice of cake this weekend and I’m good the rest of the week. I’m talkin on a daily basis I have no self-control and eat copious amounts of sugar. Let’s take Sunday for [...]
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By Nastassia on March 12, 2012
Let me tell you a little bit about speculoos and why you should love it if you aren’t already a huge admirerer and then we can talk muffins. Speculoos are Belgian cookies that have a distinctly brown sugar sweet and mildly spiced flavor. My first encounter with them was in a non-traditional cookie form studded [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged Banana Cookie Butter Muffins, Cookie Butter recipe, Le Pain Quotidien, muffin mondays, Shaky Alibi, Speculoos recipe, Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter |
By Nastassia on March 8, 2012
If you read the title and were instantly perplexed, this IS a garlic dessert. Yes sticky, smelly, sweet garlic and it is wonderful. I was too was skeptical of garlic in a dessert, but when the Dinner at Eight ladies asked me if I would like to take care of dessert for their garlic themed [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes, Sweets in LA | Tagged Dinner at Eight Supper Club, F for Food, Garlic Dessert Recipe, Garlic Rosemary Pine Nut Brittle, Maggie Mae Apron Co. |
By Nastassia on March 5, 2012
I’m not going to lie to you; I was kind of surprised well pleasantly surprised by how delicious these muffins were. When I was making them I wasn’t sure just how good they were going to be since I have never baked with hazelnut meal before. They are on the healthier side, which made me [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged hazelnut apple muffins, muffin mondays, muffin recipe with hazelnut meal |
By Nastassia on February 27, 2012
Goat cheese cheesecake with grapefruit curd has been haunting my dreams! That one fateful pie delivery day when I received an awesome goat cheese cheesecake from fruit+flour changed it all. I crave it. I dream about it. And I can never look at cheesecake the same way. So since it is Monday and, naturally, muffins will [...]
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By Nastassia on February 14, 2012
Of all the breakfast pastries in all the world, I would have to say almond croissants are my absolute favorite. True story! The soft buttery folds of dough, the flaky crust that shatters with each bite, the nutty sweetness from the gooey decadent filling, the taste and fragrance of almond – I love everything about [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes, Sweets in LA | Tagged almond croissant, Almond Croissant recipe, Best Almond Croissants in LA, Croissant Recipe, Euro Caffe Almond Croissant, Proof Bakery, Susina Bakery, The Market on Holly, Urth Cafe |
By Nastassia on February 8, 2012
Naturally when it is gloomy out I feel the need to bake. Even if I still have carrot muffins with graham frosting and chocolate chip cookies lying around the kitchen waiting to be eaten, I still feel the need to add one more sweet to the bunch. Having recently enjoyed reading about a jam cake [...]
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