Happy Birthday to 2019! I hope everybody had a wonderful New Year’s Eve. Ours was pretty chill. Erlend and I are not really the type to go out on New Year’s Eve; instead, we sat at home and drank these French 75ish cocktails I made for Crate and Barrel, ate Molly’s classic tater tot hotdish […]
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chocolate chestnut yule log
When I set out to make this chocolate chestnut yule log as a centerpiece for our holiday dessert table this year, I fell into a rabbit hole researching the origins of yule logs and bûche de Noël cakes. What I believed to be an innocent dessert actually originated in Germanic Paganism! The yule log was […]
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ube layer cake + seven years of hummingbird high
Happy Seventh Birthday to Hummingbird High! For those who came for the recipe, I’ll keep things short and sweet up here: I’m celebrating the (lucky number) seventh anniversary of starting my blog with an ube layer cake (complete with ube Swiss meringue buttercream frosting!) inspired by my Filipino heritage. Ube is a sweet purple yam […]
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buttercream flower tutorial
This time last summer, I had left my full-time job at Yelp and was gearing up to move back to Portland and focus on writing my cookbook, Weeknight Baking. Given that I had spent many years balancing my day job with this blog, I thought that finally just focusing on one thing would allow me […]
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blackberry birthday cake
Is it me, or have the last few months flown by really quickly? It only seems like yesterday that I got back from my holiday to Turkey with my mom, panicking about all the stuff I needed to do about #weeknightbakingbook. Next thing I know, my manuscript is turned in and I’m just about finishing […]
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american flag cake
By the time you read this, I’ll hopefully have finished the manuscript for Weeknight Baking. Don’t get too excited though — I still have another month to finish up my photos (of which there are a LOT to do) before I can really relax. But for now, I’m spending the weekend with a bottle of […]
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