Category: sweets

• banana cream pie

  

  This came about simply because I wanted to try out a Nilla Wafer crust and also had a couple of bananas to spare that weren’t overripe. You want to use bananas that are just ripe, the kind you would normally eat as is, and not the kind of overripe bananas you would use for banana […]

  Dave G

  May 29, 2022

  baked goods, baking, bananas, custard, food blogging, maple syrup, pie, sweets, tart

  banana cream pie, gelatin, nilla wafer, nilla wafer crust, pies

• almond crunch coffee cake

  

  almond crunch coffee cake ingredients 1 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar 1 Tablespoon olive oil 3 large eggs, room temperature 1 and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1/2 cup Greek yogurt, warm 2 teaspoons fine […]

  Dave G

  May 2, 2022

  almonds, baked goods, baking, coffee cake, dessert, espresso powder, food blogging, quick bread, snack, sweets, tea loaf, teacake

  almond coffee cake, almond crunch coffee cake, almond extract, almond loaf coffee cake, cake loaf, loaf cake, sliced almonds

• chocolate hazelnut nutella muffins 

  

  I decided to keep things simple, as a muffin recipe should be. So that’s the rationale for keeping this blog post short too. You know what to do when mixing a muffin recipe. You mix the wet and the dry separately, then combine them. Easy-peasy, right? 🙂 Plus, even when I messed up prior workings […]

  Dave G

  February 15, 2022

  baked goods, baking, food blogging, hazelnuts, milk chocolate, muffins, sweets

  chocolate hazelnut muffins, muffins, nutella, quick bread, quickbread

• bibingka

  

  “Just eat it, otherwise they’ll feel bad.” That’s what a nun told me when I was offered some bibingka. I was about 8 years old. And that phrase stuck with me all these years whenever I see or think of bibingka. Even though I no longer have an aversion to it. I was an altar […]

  Dave G

  December 5, 2021

  baked goods, baking, buns, christmas, coconut, dessert, filipino food, food blogging, gluten-free, island food, quick bread, snack, sweets

  bibingka, bibingka espesyal, bibingkang, bibingkang galapong, coconut rice cakes, filipino rice cake, sweet and salty

• apple pull apart rolls

  

  Greetings! As soon as I saw these pull-apart rolls on the King Arthur website, I wanted to make them. For the boiled cider used in their recipe, I instead substituted 4 cups of apple juice that I reduced to 1/2 cup. I couldn’t find apple cider anywhere in the grocery stores around me, for some […]

  Dave G

  October 10, 2021

  apples, baked goods, baking, buns, dessert, food blogging, fruit, sweet dough, sweet rolls, sweets, yeast breads

  apple cinnamon rolls, apple pull apart rolls, pull apart bread rolls, pull apart rolls

• mochi carrot cake

  

  For me it’s all about the rice flour substitute. If it was just regular flour, this would be a rather plain carrot cake. I usually like my carrot cake to be very moist, with pineapple chunks, walnuts, maybe even a little rum, and coconut flakes. I’m really glad I added the spices. I wasn’t going […]

  Dave G

  August 1, 2021

  baked goods, baking, cakes, dessert, food blogging, Hawaiian, muffins, snack, snack cakes, sweets

  butter mochi, carrot cake, hawaiian butter mochi cake, mochi cake, mochi carrot cake

• guava meringue pie

  

  Greetings! I can’t believe half the year is already over! I’ve been enjoying my days off experimenting in the kitchen immensely. It’s a luxury that I hope I never take for granted. Even though we don’t have a large kitchen at all, I’ve been putting my laptop and work stool on the narrow space between […]

  Dave G

  June 6, 2021

  baked goods, baking, dessert, food blogging, Guava, island food, pie, sweets, tart

  guava meringue pie, lime, meringue, meringue pie

• blueberry streusel bagels

  

  While making the components for these, I really wasn’t sure how they’d turn out, or even if they’d turn out. But in the end, it all came together, and it was all worth it. I have to warn you though. You need to make a concentrated blueberry paste by slowly cooking 2 cups worth of […]

  Dave G

  May 28, 2021

  baked goods, baking, blueberries, bread, breakfast, buns, dessert, food blogging, snack, sweet dough, sweet rolls, sweets, yeast breads

  bialys, blueberry bagels, blueberry bialys, blueberry rolls, blueberry streusel bagels, breakfast bread, brunch item, kolache-like, kolaches, streusel bagels, sweet rolls

• strawberry flax muffins

  

  Greetings! I usually consider muffins to be more like a breakfast item rather than a dessert, but these muffins…these muffins can certainly pass as dessert, even with the healthier ingredients! In fact, I think I could’ve made them even healthier with whole wheat and less sugar. I do think the quality of the strawberries you […]

  Dave G

  May 26, 2021

  baked goods, baking, dessert, food blogging, muffins, quick bread, snack, strawberry, sweets

  breakfast muffins, flax, flax seeds, olive oil, strawberries, strawberry flax muffins