Recipes created, adapted, and made with love.
Bark for all! This is the perfect homemade treat for the holiday gift-giving season. I am always looking for ‘duplicate’ gifts that I can spread amongst my three sisters, my running group, Gavin and Liam’s teachers, or my besties.
Don’t be average. Go for the gold with this, the bagel of champions with its abundant goat and cream cheese spread, a saucy mixture of cranberry-n-cherries, and cracked pepper sprinkled on top.
Another year gone by, another birthday celebrated…sigh. But, one thing I still love is receiving lovely thoughtful gifts from my peeps!
Raise your hand if you’re into day-drinking. Not a fan? What if the booze comes in the form of drunken baked goods?
Calling all ghouls, goblins and ghosts! Little Nerds everywhere – it’s time to head to the Haunted Headquarters for a Halloween Workshop!
Mummy cakes are roaming the halls of our Sweet Nerd Headquarters (ummm, that would be my kitchen, folks!). This past week, a brood of 4th graders joined The Sweet Nerd Halloween Workshop to mummify some white cakes.
Happy “BOO” Birthday! Halloween marks a special day for honoring my brother Marc’s birthday and giving him some BOOtiful cake love.
“Guten Morgen,” as Liam and Gavin would say en route to our morning breakfast in Germany. From the moment we arrived in the Bavarian Alps, these jibber jabbers spoke to anyone who would listen.
Have you ever seen a volcano spewing blueberries? This is what comes to mind as I remember the first times I made this delightful blueberry and rhubarb rugelach.
Urban Chic + Beautiful Brunch Brunch’n Babes! This is how to take your brunch game to next-level status and wow your girlfriends the next time they’re over for a lazy weekend morning.
Wiping my brow, I had made it through the first day of pastry school. It wasn’t pretty, as I was feeling 40-something, overwhelmed, a bit out of place, and well, super-sweaty from frustration and the heat of the ovens.
These Buttermilk Blueberry Bundt Cakes are a blissful combo of not-too-sweet crumb cake and rich, blueberryicious topping. You can find different shapes or molds online, or exercise some patience, and scour your closest yard or estate sale.
Seriously?!? I hate LA traffic. The 5 freeway is THE WORST. The other day, while stuck in bumper-to-bumper, I started daydreaming of something much more cheery –
Lemon Lingonberry Cake, done Sweet Nerd style. It’s a bit of ‘Splatter meets Swedes.’ The puckery sweet filling was inspired by Sweden’s popular Lingonberries and the urban splatter painted finish was inspired by street art in Los Angeles.
Czech and Kolachkes go together like Bees + Honey! And speaking of bees, this Kolachkes recipe, which I found in my fave cookie cookbook, Cookie Love, upped the ante by adding in Honeycomb.
