dessert

  • Vera’s Spiced Honey Cake

    Vera’s Spiced Honey Cake

    This recipe comes from my maternal grandmother, Vera, and is perfect year round, but especially for Rosh Hashanah if you’re looking for a honey-themed treat. Since it’s baking, I’ve got exact measurements for you! Ingredients: Instructions according to Vera: Instructions according to me (aka, a lazy person with no baking education who doesn’t want to…

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  • Red-Bean Hamantaschen

    Red-Bean Hamantaschen

    It’s Purim! I made hamantaschen aka oznei haman and decided I needed a cool Korean inspired filling. I got some red beans (also called adzuki beans, they are NOT kidney beans that happen to be red), made a nice paste, and decided I should write up the recipe for you too. I picked red bean…

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  • You can call this either Amalena’s crowned seven-species or Amalena’s crowned shivat ha’minim, or something else completely, I just figured it needed a name! This was an experiment that went AMAZINGLY. I gotta share it. Great for celebrating Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Shavuot, Tu B’Shvat, Hanukka, or just because. It’s sweet, crunchy, chewy, and has little…

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