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Spicy Lemon Date Spread

December 19, 2011

Have you ever tried to peel dates? Yea… me neither. Except I totally tried. It was hard. It was futile. Did you know you’re not supposed to peel dates? You’re not. All it takes is one text to a friend.. and you’ll know for sure. Texting with sticky fingers. It’s just real. No biggie. I [...]

The Simple Lunch

December 15, 2011

The Simple Lunch is for days when: maybe you’re nervous and possibly overwhelmed. you’ve considered dipping your morning muffin in good olive oil. you want to remember the days when you highlighted your hair with lemon juice and sunlight. you need to sprinkle salt on your lunch aaaannnddd over your shoulder. you want day wine… [...]

Lemon Meringue Pie Milkshakes

September 4, 2011

I have a super power. I can look at a sad, understocked, and unloved fridge… and find a dessert in it. You have the bottom scrapings of the peanut butter jar, a bit of powdered sugar, and some random chocolate chips? Dessert. You have honey and walnuts? I think there’s something we can do there. [...]

Lemon Raspberry Breakfast Rolls

August 25, 2011

The dream house that I hold in my head is sunny and smells like banana bread. It has a real-life adult couch and big, fluffy, matching, totally not hand-me-down bathroom towels. The bookshelves aren’t dusty and my desk is huge and spotless. There’s also a lovely woman that comes over everyday to help me clean [...]

Lemon Almond Meringues

August 8, 2011

Dear The French Laundry, How did a humble baker girl like me end up at a fine establishment such as yours? Seriously. Breathtaking. How did this happen? Ok… truth be told, my friend Tracy extended a last minute invite, I basically ran to my car in my slippers, a dress on a hanger flying behind [...]

Hot Cross Biscuits

April 15, 2011

It’s that time of year. It’s time to put a marshmallow Peep in your hat. It’s time to pipe a cross on your biscuit. It’s time to eat way way way too many white chocolate Easter bunnies. Or maybe you gave up sugar for Lent… in which case… I’m sorry to torture you with dessert [...]

Lemon Cornmeal Breakfast Cake

February 25, 2011

There are only three reason why I would rip the shirt off my body in public: 1. If a kitten were on fire and I needed to smother him, put him out, cuddle him, give him food, and make him mine forever. 2. If I discovered a bee… a ferocious, man-eating bee, down my shirt. [...]

Tangerine Lemon Curd

January 23, 2011

I go to church in Hollywood. Most every Sunday. I step over super gross, drunken Saturday night vomit, club promo cards, discarded hair extensions, gum wrappers and street hot dog remnants. I kid you not. Hollywood is nuts. Watch your step. Some questions arise when I go to church. Is it rude to shush a [...]

Lemon and Matcha Marble Pound Cake

September 14, 2010

My friend makes one small mention of Rachel Zoe this morning and here I am, shoulders deep into a Rachel Zoe Project marathon. Shameless. I keep telling myself that I’ll just watch one more episode… one more… then I’ll think of something to write on my blog. Five hours later… here I am, alone in [...]

Little Lemon Hazelnut Cakes

March 8, 2010

I have downright baffled myself. I may have mentioned that I’m moving this week. Moving is… horrifying. Yes, I’m being dramatic. Please indulge me. Among the things that I found under my bed and in the dark recesses of my closet as I’ve been cleaning and packing are: eight kitten stuffed animals. one medium sized [...]

Berry Meyer Lemon Pancakes

February 8, 2010

Can I let you in on a little something? I don’t live in the cool Los Angeles neighborhood that all my friends live in… I have more matching spatulas than I do matching bath towels. I still can’t seem to commit to buying myself a couch. My bedroom bookcase seems to be made up of [...]

Lemon Glazed Spice Cake with Whipped Cream

December 9, 2009

I sometimes daydream about spending a day holding a sign, perched on some sort of stoop at the base of a freeway off ramp. Totally random daydream, right? My daydream sign holding isn’t about begging for money or protesting a cause. No. My signs are much more silly and benign. In my daydream I hold [...]

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

November 23, 2009

In the event of some sort of big fat natural disaster in California, I may be up a creek without a paddle. Sure, I’ve got the canned tuna, the emergency gallons of water and a few flashlights with dying batteries. I’ve got the walking shoes, a space blanket and pepper spray… you need those things, [...]

Lemon Rosemary Palmiers

August 16, 2009

Let’s play a game called What’s on Your Nightstand?. What? Too personal? Oooh come on! We’re all friends here. Let’s try to figure out what our night stands say about the state of our lives. On my night stand is: 1 Ikea lamp. A water color painting made by my aunt in the 80′s. A [...]

Gluten-Free Lemon, Almond and Polenta Cake

March 30, 2009

Please allow me this bright and promising Monday morning to keep it one hundred percent real with you. While this gluten free cake was buttery, nutty, bright with the flavor of lemon and perfectly sweet, the truth is, it ended up all over my floor. Well… ok, bits on the floor, chunks on the counter, [...]

Lemon Souffle Pudding

January 21, 2009

I’m going to need a day to digest the Fancy Food Show. In the meantime, I thought I’d present you with this Lemon Souffle Pudding. I often think of myself as a mash up of the time I’ve spent in the world so far. In essence I feel like a messy concoction of parents, siblings, [...]

Lemon-Drenched Lemon Cake

January 9, 2009

Lemon-Drenched Lemon Cake. For this cake, simple loaf pans just don’t measure up. After one slice of the perfect, absolutely perfect cake, it became clear that when I next bake this cake (tomorrow morning), I’ll need to devise some sort of pillow shaped cake pan. This cake is going to be my new pillow. Forget [...]

Joy the Baker Classic

September 19, 2008

Let’s turn the clocks back to the beginning of Joy the Baker. This extra dreamy lemon pound cake was one of my very first Joy the Baker posts. I nabbed a friend’s fancy camera and after a 15 minute crash course, started baking and shooting my favorite pound cake recipe. Those were the humble beginnings [...]

Lemon Whoopie Pies

April 9, 2008

Forget about saving room for dessert. One of these lemon whoopie pies is a whole meal in itself! These beauties are not the delicate, petite, wallflower cookie. They bake up into a beast of a cookie. They’re doubley soft, cakey cookie goodness filled with a lemony cream cheese filling. These are not a snacking cookie. [...]

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