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The Daring Bakers Make Stollen
From Adriana Baking After packing my favorite measuring cup, a sieve, and a container filled with cocoa powder and sugar, we drove up to my grandparents’ house in the late afternoon of the 24th. We...
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Chocolate Pepper Cookies with Matcha Frosting
From Adriana Baking It’s good to be back at school. Though every second upon waking up this morning seemed to pass by much too quickly, school was nothing to dread. Kicking off my warm covers and...
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Buttermilk Pound Cake
From Adriana Baking As a child, I went through phases of short-lived obsessions. In my early years of elementary school, I spent every minute of free time playing with my sister and our neighbor,...
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Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie and a Belated Blogoversary
From Adriana Baking Amidst the chaos of the past month, days melded into weeks as my blog posts petered out. It wasn’t until a few days before February 20th that I realized that that day marked the...
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Double Chocolate Loaf
From Adriana Baking Much has happened these past months, from celebrating my fifteenth birthday to reacquainting myself with the familiar process of spending time baking each day. Seemingly, I’ve put...
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Rich Coffeecake with Sweet Cheese Filling
From Adriana Baking I find it difficult to believe that my freshman year of high school is officially over. With every passing year time seems to hurry by faster, and this year was no exception....
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Fruit Crumbles and Ice Cream
From Crumble It takes physically returning to the world that has been strumming on your heartstrings, playing out a melancholy melody peppered with notes of longing, to remember why you miss that world...
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Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream in Chocolate Cones
From Pictures Time and again, I find myself sifting through memories of last summer, subconsciously comparing it to this past one. I’m reminded of the hours I’d spend in the kitchen, taking advantage...
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Fresh Fig Tart
From Summer As my school life resumes, I’ve finally fallen back into routine, and life has picked up its pace once again. Gone are the days when the only recurring structure to my day was waking up and...
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Pumpkin Orange Ice Cream Sandwiches
From Summer It was the beginning of August when I was contact by the Girl’s Life magazine. There the email lay, nestled on either side by various food blog updates left unread from the weeks I’d spent...
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Gingerbread Ice Cream
From Adriana Baking Late into the summer, Jana from Zuckerbaeckerei emailed me asking if I’d be interested in guest posting for her in preparation for Christmas. I didn’t hesitate in writing back right...
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Gingerbread Pumpkin Cheesecake
From Recently Updated December evenings were made up of the type of nights that creep in, slowly dousing the world in darkness. No one notices the gradual shift in lighting until suddenly, windows no...
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Raspberry Trifle
From Food Photography A couple months ago, my mother convinced me to watch Dancer in the Dark. I was hesitant at first – she’d told me it was a sad movie, and I was in no mood to cry. But I acquiesced....
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Strawberry Ice Cream
From Drop Box I took a little break from blogging these past few months, and before I knew it, I wasn’t baking nearly as much as I used to either. What had been a daily occurrence was reduced to a...
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S’mores Ice Cream Sandwiches
From Summer 2012 This summer, right after school ended, we went off on vacation, and spent the second leg of our trip in New York City. It was my first time visiting. We only stayed three nights, but...
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Caramel Cayenne Popcorn
From Food Photography I used to hate spicy food as a child. I couldn’t understand how anyone could enjoy having their palate assaulted, or how they could stand eating as the outlines of their lips...
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Matcha Shortbread
From Drop Box In mid-November, I traveled to Nepal with school. I’d never expected to ever visit the country, but when my school announced it as the annual travel destination for the 11th grade, I...
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Cardamom Affogato
From Summer 2013 I’ve been composing posts in my head since the beginning of February. The first was one to celebrate my blogoversary, now long past. Another was about my experience at the...
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Vanilla Bean Crème Caramel
From Summer 2013 At the end of last year, I jumped at the opportunity to work at the summer camp my school was running. Though I had initially been set on teaching English, the empty slots in the...
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Pink Lemonade Bars (Communist Tart)
From Summer 2013 When my father suggested writing a guest post after having watched “The Manchurian Candidate” with me, I thought he was kidding. But a few days later, the first draft of his post lay...
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