By Nastassia on April 30, 2012
It is a rare moment when my sweet tooth isn’t in full force, but sometimes I want something savory in the morning. When I get these cravings for salty not sweet a good savory pastry or muffin paired with some crispy bacon or sausange is just the ticket. If you follow me on Instagram (I’m [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged baker street tv, Corn Muffin Recipe, Green Chile Cheddar Corn Muffin, Green Chile Muffin Recipe, muffin mondays |
By Nastassia on April 23, 2012
This muffin Monday is brought to you by hazelnuts, brown butter and raspberries. Do you like all of these things? I hope you do because they like you! I had left over hazelnut meal from my previous Hazelnut Apple muffins but have not found a good reason to use it again until today. I used [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged Brown Butter Hazelnut Raspberry Muffins, Hazelnut meal recipe, muffin mondays, Raspberry Muffin recipe |
By Nastassia on April 9, 2012
Can we talk about nutmeg and springtime? I know nutmeg is more of a cozy winter kind of spice but I love nutmeg year round. The flavor of freshly ground nutmeg is magical. It gives sweets that extra wow flavor. You know that extra special something that makes people stop and wonder what that yumminess [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged baking with strawberries, buttermilk muffin recipe, muffin mondays, Strawberry Buttermilk Muffins, Strawberry muffin recipe |
By Nastassia on April 3, 2012
Each month when Food & Wine magazine comes I eagerly flip through the pages and dog-ear all the recipes I want to make. Do I ever make them? Rarely. Not that I don’t want to. I never seem to find the time to get through the ever-growing stack of recipes I want to try. And [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged Cornmeal Almond Cake with Strawberries and Mascarpone, Food & Wine Cornmeal Almond Cake, Food & Wine magazine, March 2012 Food & Wine recipes |
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 [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged coffee muffin recipe, Dorie Greenspan coffee break muffins, muffin mondays, vietnames coffee muffin recipe |
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 [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged bakerstreettv, Dessert for Two Blog, Lemon Almond Olive Oil muffin, muffin mondays, Olive Oil Muffin recipe |
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 [...]
Posted in Sweet Recipes | Tagged cheesecake muffin recipe, Goat Cheese Cheesecake Muffins with Grapefruit Curd, Grapefruit Curd Recipe, muffin mondays |
