The Pastry Chef's Baking

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes - December 2, 2009 Think of this as a brown sugar cupcake with chocolate chips. It's very tasty but the tex...

Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies - November 29, 2009 Let me say right off the bat that I don't like raisins. I can eat them once in awhi...

Lemon Semolina Cake This is a recipe I first made at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) in St Helena. It's a classic lemon pound ca...

Once again, documenting for posterity - here's what we had for Thanksgiving. There were 15 of us and the majority of people weren't ...

Lumpia are Filipino egg rolls. There's a healthy version with diced fresh vegetables similar to Vietnamese spring rolls and there's ...

I've been baking for so long that I forget it's sometimes not as easy as it looks. I'm only reminded of it when people tell me ...

I'm down in Orange County visiting my sister's for Thanksgiving week. My real bake-fest will take place on Wednesday and Thursday fo...

I thought I had posted these before but in doublechecking the recipes I would need, I didn't see them so here they are. These are the Bu...

This is going to be one of the desserts we're going to serve at Thanksgiving next week. I didn't make them tonight but I wanted to g...

Before I talk about my backup plan to serve at today's meeting, update on the chocolate chip cookies that I thought were just "okay...