Dessert First
Blog URL http://www.dessertfirst.typepad.com
Located San Francisco, California USA
Tags dessert, pastry, baking, food, photography, recipes, sweet
Baker, writer, photographer, lover of all thing sweet. Author of Field Guide to Cookies and Field Guide to Candy.
Latest Blog Posts
- Vanilla, Mocha, Walnuts: Memories of Bundt Cake on Nov 13, 2009
Some of my earliest memories of baking at home involved my mom, a box of cake mix, and a bundt pan. Now, to be completely fair to my mom and cake mixes, she came over to America at the age...
- A Clafouti For Chilly Days: Apples, Cranberries, and Vanilla Bean on Nov 7, 2009 in Pastry
A dear friend of mine just returned from Africa and brought me a wonderful gift: a literal bag of whole vanilla beans! Apparently vanilla beans are much less expensive in Africa (no doubt due to the vanilla bean powerhouse Madagascar)...
- A Little Candy Corn for Your Halloween Bowl on Oct 30, 2009 in Field Guide to Candy
Hi all! In honor of Halloween, I thought I'd share this candy corn recipe from my cookbook. I also got to speak with the Saucy Sisters from Nashville about this Halloween staple; here's the podcast if you want to take...
- Pomegranates, Fall, and Cookbooks on Oct 26, 2009 in Books
Thanks to all of you who made it out to my book party last weekend! We had a brisk fall afternoon, a lovely crowd, and chocolates for all! I was flattered that so many guests commented on the Vanilla Bean...
- Of Chocolate and Tempering on Oct 13, 2009
Wow! First, thank you all for the wonderful well wishes and support to my last post! It is still a bit unreal to me that I now have two books to my name, and all of your encouragement is *very*...
- Field Guide to Candy is Out! Win a Copy of Your Own! on Oct 6, 2009
Two years ago, one of my long-cherished goals suddenly blossomed into reality: I was offered the chance to write a cookbook. A great deal of testing, retesting, writing, and rewriting later Field Guide to Cookies emerged. One year ago, just...
- Goodbye Summer, Hello Fall: Peach Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Hazelnut Sugar Cookies on Oct 1, 2009 in Cookies Ice Cream
I am so glad that I was able to make it to BlogHer Food! The prospect of meeting friends I'd made through the food blogosphere, virtually in my backyard, was too compelling to ignore. Combine that with some extraordinarily educational...
