I bought cookie stamps a year ago hoping to make stamped cookies that I found so pretty yet I never got around to it. Since I make cookie boxes every Christmas to give to friends and family, I decided that this year is the year I make them! These gingerbread stamped cookies are packed with ginger flavor that are decorated with such beautiful patterns.

There’s a cafe in LA called Doubting Thomas that has a delicious and beautiful passion fruit pie (they call theirs pie, I consider it a tart though? haha). I rarely see passion fruit in the grocery store so when I  recently saw some in stock, I had to buy a couple to make my own version of passion fruit tart! Passion fruit is so expensive though and so I opt to make the tart with passion fruit purée which is much cheaper! This tart is delicious and my friends all gave me compliments on it! :D

Have you seen Milk Bar’s pumpkin caramel pie? Instead of baking a pumpkin custard, they make a pumpkin ganache, which sounded so interesting to me so I had to try it out. Yet, I wanted to add a bit of a twist to it and something to balance out the sweetness of the ganache more; so I topped it with a hojjicha whipped cream to add the nice bitterness that roasted matcha provides. I also swapped the pumpkin puree with steamed kabocha, which is a japanese squash that I love and is naturally sweet! Overall, this pie was delicious!

I’m always so happy when it hits this time of year: fall! This is because some of my favorite fruits are in season. One of which is the beautiful persimmon. I wanted to try baking something with this fruit and I landed on an upside down cake. Persimmons don’t have the intense flavor profile that a pineapple has but it has a subtle warmth that I feel compliments this cake quite well.

Nothing says fall like apple pie! But galettes are so much easier to make than pies and so I made this apple galette! To up the apple flavor, I added apple butter. But since apple butter takes a while to make, I sped up the process by using apple sauce! 

I made corn butter mochi before and on that video I received a comment about making the butter mochi instead with pumpkin, and so I definitely had to try it! It’s so good. I love everything pumpkin pie and this pumpkin butter mochi has the flavor of pumpkin pie but with the texture of chewy springy mochi! It’s also super easy to make.