Hungarian Shortbread for Tuesdays With Dorie

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This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie recipe is Hungarian Shortbread – two delicate layers of buttery shortbread held together with rhubarb jam. Because of this group, I am constantly expanding my baking skills. Not only did I try rhubarb for the first time, I also tried a new technique. Grated cookie dough, anyone?

Lemon Loaf Cake – Tuesdays With Dorie

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This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie is Lemon Loaf Cake. I was really excited because I absolutely love lemon plus the recipe sounded simple – whisk everything together, pour into the pan, and bake. No chilling, no kneading dough, no cutting anything out. Mix and bake. In fact, it took longer to bake than to actually [...]

Pizza Rustica – Tuesdays With Dorie

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This week’s Tuesdays With Dorie recipe was Pizza Rustica. This is the first real savory recipe we’ve done so far (still doesn’t make it any less fattening!). It’s essentially a pizza made in a pie plate (literally a pizza pie). However, it is much quicker to make than a regular pizza. For starters, the dough [...]

Irish Soda Bread – Tuesdays With Dorie

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I am honored to be hosting Tuesdays With Dorie today! I think it’s quite funny I was chosen for Irish Soda Bread because I spent a semester abroad overseas in Ireland. In fact, the reason this blog was born was because I had trouble coping with my homesickness during my last month. Of course this [...]

Rugelach – Tuesdays With Dorie

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Today’s Tuesdays With Dorie is a Jewish cookie called rugelach. I’ve heard of rugelach but was a little thrown off when the picture showed it as spiral cookies. The recipe has you roll the dough up jelly-roll style then slice and bake rather than traditionally roll them up as crescents. Rolling it up into a [...]