Lemon Peach Scones

I made these ages ago. I’m sure I would have been able to write a quirky short story to accompany this recipe. Back then. Now, however, all I can do is keep things short and sweet and just post the dang recipe. Before I do, let me just say two things: 1) The lemons: My [...]

Fruit Galette for Summer

Oregon. Winter is cold and rainy. Spring? Fall? Yup, cold and rainy. But summer, oh, summer–mildly hot, dry, and sunny, they are seriously the best. All you want to do is be outside, hiking, biking and swimming. And when you’re not doing that, you’re popping u-pick berries into your mouth and eating the sweetest peaches, [...]

Cream Puffs con Crema Pastelera de Tres Tipos

Made these in two rounds. Round 1: FLOP. The plan was to impress a friend of mine on her birthday with homemade mini profiteroles filled with lucuma pastry cream (the same fruit I used to make cheesecake). I did give them to her, though there was nothing impressive about them. They were these completely deflated, [...]

Grapefruit Bars. Just for Me.

I’ve been so stressed lately, I swear I’m going to develop an ulcer (-_-”). It just seems like everyone wants a piece of me right now. Sigh. So even though I have a million things on my plate, I still made time to bake these cute grapefruit bars. The original recipe used Meyer Lemons and [...]

Birthday Lemon Tart

Birthdays make this Little Baker very happy! (^_^) Melita brought home lots and lots of lemons last week, so since her birthday was on Monday, I baked her a lemon tart. The quirky part about this recipe is that, except for the seeds, it calls for 1 1/2 ENTIRE lemons, which makes for a uber-lemony, [...]

Tri-flavored Dutch Almond Buttercake (Amandel Boterkoek)

Yay! We have internet at home! F.I.N.A.L.L.Y. No more stealing, no more switching/tweaking/adjusting laptop positions and unlocked wireless networks in order to get connected. Some people (esp. Dennis) might not understand how we three girls have managed to live like this for already half a year (?!?!?!)—actually, now that we have internet, I don’t know [...]

Wishing-I-Was-At-Brunch Blueberry Scones

I never eat brunch, let alone breakfast. Yes, I am fully aware that I am setting myself up for overeating and carb-loading later on in the day. But I am just not one of those people who can stomach solids at 8 in the morning. Coffee is about all I can handle that early in [...]