Tag: lena geller
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dog cakes
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floral christmas cake
the only thing strictly *Christmas-y* about this cake is the tree in the center, so I think it could be made year-round. You can replace the tree with whatever you want — a birthday message, some fresh flowers, a little fondant minion from Despicable Me — truly anything ingredients cake 1.5 oz semisweet chocolate, chopped 3/4…
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painting cakes
i think there’s a misconception that high end cake decorating entails fondant and dragées and other decorations that are technically edible but always end up getting left on the plate. don’t get me wrong, fondant is great — if you want a cake to look like an anatomically correct heart, it’s the way to go…
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burnt honey cake with blackberry jam and marzipan
there are few cakes that cross my mind as often as the pink champagne cake i made two years ago does. i think this is due to a combination of three things: 1) it’s one of the prettiest cakes i’ve ever made, 2) my life was in complete turmoil when i made it, and 3) the…
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iced sugar cookies
i took the red-eye megabus home from d.c. and arrived in durham this morning bleary-eyed but ready to bake in my own kitchen. i scrolled through pinterest and came across molly yeh’s adorable sugar cookies, which seemed like the perfect way to start off my holiday baking, but after reading the recipe, it dawned on…
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avocado, egg, and chorizo bap
i’d never heard of a “bap” until i read about it in my favorite little british breakfast book, posh eggs, a bap is a soft, round bread roll used as the foundation for a meat sandwich. in britain, baps are usually filled with sliced sausage and HP sauce, but i’m currently in sunny southern california, so i…
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croissants with strawberry basil jam
my list of new year’s resolutions tends to change pretty drastically every year. i was looking at some old journals the other day and laughed when i realized my goals in 2014 were to lose weight, go to more parties, get straight A’s, and get a boyfriend while 2016’s were to gain weight, stay in more, stop obsessing over…
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lucky charms cupcakes
today’s my senior prom! i’m actually feeling pretty sentimental; it will be my fourth and final year of attending. freshman and sophomore years were great (i felt very cool being surrounded by upperclassmen), but i think this year will be the best. there’s something special about attending as part of the graduating class. but it’s also crazy and sad that it’ll be…
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birthday cake oreo milkshakes
the world turned upside down last week at starbucks’ introduction of the limited edition unicorn frappuccino. the drink is described as “a sweet dusting of pink powder blended into a crème frappuccino with mango syrup, and layered with a pleasantly sour blue powder topping.” so basically blue kool-aid and mango juice blended into a vanilla…
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ombré cake
it’s so hard for me to choose a favorite between chocolate and vanilla cake. with most sweets, i have a clear preference — vanilla ice cream, chocolate pudding, white chocolate chips, chocolate cheesecake — but not with cake. i think chocolate cake is easier to “get right,” because cocoa powder is deliciously complex while naturally…
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