Breton Buckwheat Butter Cake on a white plate.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Breton Buckwheat Butter Cake from Dorie’s Anytime Cakes

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Dorie’s latest book, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes. Breton Buckwheat Butter Cake is kind of exactly what is sounds like – a butter cake made with (a tiny amount of) buckwheat – but is’ more like a cake/ cookie than an actual cake (it’s very flat). It it very … Read more

Marble Cake with a cracked, swirled top resting in a white baking dish.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Coconut Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Coconut-Milk-Chocolate Marble Cake is one of our last cakes left to bake in this book (we’re done in October!!!) and to be honest, i hadn’t noticed this particular recipe until it was chosen! I’ve not had much success making pretty marble cakes in the … Read more

close up of Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Mary Dodd’s Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Mary Dodd’s Maple-Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies have a lot going on! These cookies are fairly easy to whip up – you need to have cooked bacon and also bacon fat – I cooked my bacon strips and used the fat that rendered from there … Read more

Golden brown cake in a round cast-iron skillet with a bright blue silicone handle, resting on a dark wooden surface.

Tuesdays with Dorie: Corn Toasties (Cornbread) from Dorie’s Anytime Cakes

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Dorie’s latest book, Dorie’s Anytime Cakes. Corn Toasties are “giant” muffin-sized cornbreads. Since I don’t have giant muffin pans, I took one of Dorie’s “Playing Around” suggestions and made half the recipe into a small family-sized cornbread instead. It’s a simple recipe that comes together quickly with … Read more

Stack of four rectangular fried pastries dusted with powdered sugar on a white plate with a blue rim on a wooden table.

Tuesdays with Dorie: (kinda sorta) Tea and Honey Madeleines from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Tea and Honey Madeleines were on the “to bake” list but I didn’t manage to get them baked before I left for France where – surprisingly, I don’t have a madeleine tin… No matter – I am the queen of improvisation so I decided … Read more