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.

My friend came back from a trip to Portland and told me that the best thing she ate on the trip was a baked chocolate earl grey donut. She described the flavor profile and asked if I could recreate it for her. Since it will be her birthday soon, I happily obliged! So, here’s my attempt at making some chocolate earl grey donuts. She wanted them less chocolate with more of an earl grey taste profile so hopefully I pulled it off!

I’m in a book club with some friends and we recently read the book, “Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come.” We decided to have a potluck and so I decided to make the cake on the cover of the book! I love RecipeTinEats vanilla cake recipe and so I used it. However, I also used the regular vanilla buttercream recipe. I don’t really like American buttercream and so next time I make this cake, I’d rather replace it with a different kind.

It’s summer which means its peach season! Peaches are definitely one of my favorite fruits so I wanted to make cakes with peaches in them. I thought about including a whole slice of peach in the cake so I decided to make my cakes mini so that one layer can just be the peach itself! I suck at making cakes though, so I struggle. haha. But I still enjoy the process!

Did you know there’s a Friends’ episode where Ross eats Monica’s Kiwi Lime Pie not knowing there’s kiwi in it? He’s allergic and doesn’t have a good reaction. haha. However, my kiwi lime pie will definitely say, I contain kiwis! I saw these beautiful RubyRed kiwis in the market and had to make something with them! So here’s this pie. Or is it a tart? What’s the difference??