For some reason, we’re wired to crave/want things more when we can’t have them. I probably had Sprinkles red velvet cupcake once a year or so. Yet, upon hearing that they’re out of business and no longer exist, I was craving a Sprinkles red velvet cupcake! If you don’t know, they’re the ones who started the cupcake ATM and I was really fond of their red velvet cupcakes. So here’s my attempt at making a similar one! With less food coloring… haha.

I saw an account called Flamingo Estate post a burnt honey tart and upon seeing it, I had to try making it myself! However, their recipe called for 10 eggs and 2/3 cup honey, which for me seemed quite pricey. haha. So I decided to make a tart with half of those ingredients subbing the rest with a delicate whipped cream. The tart has a delicate floral flavor with a strong fragrance of beeswax. It’s a tart that you either like or don’t like.

I’ve made apple butter cinnamon rolls and even peach cinnamon rolls on this channel but haven’t made classic regular cinnamon rolls! Everytime I go to the mall and pass by Cinnabon, I smell the cinnamon and butter wafting through the air tempting me to buy a cinnamon roll. This time, I decided to make my own! :D

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!