No Christmas or holiday for that matter without cookies! As early as October people (like me) start planning this year’s cookie selection. And that’s not an easy task. First, there are all the traditional recipes from your mum and grandma that are a must on…

There are many things New York City is famous for. One of them is cheesecake! Hardly anyone can resist the velvety texture of the cream cheese filling paired with a crunchy base of biscuits. Although I lived in New York for almost four years, I…

I love to search for new recipes and explore alternative baking methods or ingredients. While my primary source is wonderful online blogs, I enjoy browsing real paper cook and baking books (find the sites and books that most inspire me here). One of the first “healthy”…

It’s only one more week until Easter, and at home, we would typically make a Hefezopf, a brioche-like braided yeast bread, for our Easter brunch. I like baking with yeast. It’s like magic when the yeast is working, making the dough to rise until double…

It’s a new year, and with it usually, lots of New Year’s resolutions are being made. It’s that time of the year when we reflect about the past, make goals for the upcoming year, and decide which bad habits to let go off and what new…

It has been quite a long time since I last posted a recipe. Somehow life took over, and I wanted to take a little break from writing. But that doesn’t mean that I stopped baking. I experimented a lot over the last weeks and months.…