"I'd encourage you to try this out before the pumpkin pie portal closes for the season." [Photograph: Robyn Lee] At the risk of sounding like a giant nerd, sometimes I think baking pumpkin pies is very similar to time travel....
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The week's final Cook the Book recipe, adapted from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, appears today at the insistence of Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine. And though Sweet Melissa Patsisserie is only a few blocks away from my home, I...
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Today's Cook the Book recipe, adapted from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, is one that Melissa Murphy says is her favorite—Sour Cherry Pie with Pistachio Crumble. Developed by her friend and one-time pasty chef at Sweet Melissa Patisserie, it's also...
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Today's Cook the Book recipe, adapted from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book, is for Brooklyn Brownout Cake, basically a chocolate-lover's one-stop shop for chocomadness. Even though the cake as a whole might seem to take more than a bit of...
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The following recipe is from the April 2 edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here! Melissa Murphy shares a recipe for carrot cake with fresh orange cream cheese frosting in her...
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Today's Cook the Book recipe adapted from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book is for toasted almond lemon bars. Don't even think of skipping the toasted almonds in this recipe; adding them to the shortbread crust here gives these bars a...
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And the first of our Cook the Book recipes this week from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book is for sweet muffins. And with the variations here, you'll have at least three ways of making these treats, which are ideal for...
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