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Autumn Apple Hand Pies

Oct 4 by Anita 1 Comment

These cute little autumn apple hand pies are some of the happy products of a dreamy weekend spent in the apple orchards. We took Isabelle on her first apple picking experience and she loved it. Like most weekend apple picking visitors, we got carried away and brought home way more apples than we intended. Fortunately, […]...

Filed Under: Fruit, Pastry, Recipes Tagged With: apple, apple hand pies, apple picking, blitz puff, puff pastry

Apple Rose Frangipane Tart

Mar 20 by Anita 2 Comments

This apple rose frangipane tart is a perfect welcome to spring! I couldn’t think of a better time to try my hand at this popular and gorgeous tart technique. I’ve been wanting to make this for quite a while, but I felt like I had to set aside a good chunk of time to dedicate […]...

Filed Under: Fruit, Recipes, Tarts Tagged With: apple, apple rose, apple rose frangipane tart, frangipane, spring, tart

Apple Marzipan Cake

Nov 8 by Anita 13 Comments

This pretty little apple marzipan cake might be one of my favorite new baking experiments. Since it’s November and officially holiday season, I’ve been in a serious baking mood. Leafing through my cookbooks last weekend, I came across The Wednesday Chef‘s apple marzipan cake (or apfel-marzipan-kuchen) in her excellent Classic German Baking. The description of […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Cookbooks, Recipes Tagged With: apple, cake, classic german baking, marzipan

Normandy Apple Tart

Nov 1 by Anita Leave a Comment

Dorie Greenspan’s Normandy apple tart makes a perfect canvas for some tart crust creativity. Baking confession: although I love making pies and tarts, I haven’t gotten on the elaborate works-of-art crust decorating trend until now! But with a daughter who loves turning any activity into an art project, I figured what better time to start. […]...

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Fruit, Recipes, Tarts Tagged With: apple, dorie greenspan, normandy apple tart, tart

Apple Meringue Crumb Cake

Oct 17 by Anita 2 Comments

The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting crisper, and fall baking season is fully underway.  I’ve spent the last few weekends baking various things with apples because it just feels so properly autumnal, and also because Isabelle, at four and half, declared herself capable of learning how to peel apples. She was right; with the proper […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Cookbooks, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: apple, apple meringue cake, cake, cookbook, review, traditional jewish baking

Apple Pomegranate Galette à la Chez Panisse

Oct 14 by Anita 20 Comments

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post in partnership with TripAdvisor. All opinions in this post are my own. Whenever I travel, one of my first questions is always, “Where are we going to eat?” The meal part of any of my travel itineraries is usually the first to be filled out, and usually the most […]...

Filed Under: California, East Bay, Fruit, Pastry, Recipes, Tarts, Travel Tagged With: #TravelToTaste, apple, blitz puff, chez panisse, galette, puff pastry, tart, tripadvisor

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Anita Chu, also known as pastrygirl, is a baker, writer, and photographer with a passion for pastry. She trained at Tante Marie's Cooking School and is the author of Field Guide to Cookies, Field Guide to Candy, and Lollipop Love. Anita lives in San Francisco with her husband, baby girl, and rescue cockapoo Snickerdoodle. More about pastrygirl

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