July is one of two months of the year when we reach the inconceivable point where there are too many desserts in the house. My birthday is on the 17th, and my brother’s is on the 23rd, meaning there is a full sized dessert that gets made for each of us, in addition to the… Continue reading Blind Baking: A Tale of Hubris and Knowing When to Quit
Cheesecake is my favorite dessert. Some people might say “Lara, aren’t you the bi making pie? Isn’t pie your favorite dessert?” The answer to that is yes, and cheesecake is my favorite pie. I know it’s technically called “cake” but if you think about the components of pie, and the components of cake, then you… Continue reading Cheesecake is Pie, Fight Me
Cheesecake is my favorite dessert (read my post in Unwanted Opinions to see why) but baking a full one had always intimidated me. Every single cheesecake recipe always contains a plethora of *WARNING* type messages about how you will most likely fuck up your cheesecake. Your cream cheese isn’t soft enough? You fucked up your… Continue reading Mind the Crack-Baking my First Cheesecake
