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Easter Chick Cream Puffs

Apr 9 by Anita 2 Comments

Happy April! April means Easter, and I already know what I’m making: these Easter chick cream puffs! This cute-food take on the classic cream puff uses lemon curd in the filling, which is also perfect because it’s Meyer lemon season. Also, I have to admit that inspiration struck when my daughter mentioned that her class […]...

Filed Under: Pastry, Recipes Tagged With: cream puffs, easter, easter chick cream puffs, lemon curd, meyer lemon, profiteroles

Alice Medrich’s Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Mar 27 by Anita 8 Comments

Happy Easter! I took opportunity of the occasion to try out another recipe from one of my current bookshelf must-haves, Alice Medrich’s Flavor Flours. The hubby had marked the particularly tempting Carrot Spice Cake for my list to Things He’d Like Me to Make, so I pulled out the carrots and cake pans to give […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Cookbooks, Recipes Tagged With: alice medrich, cake, carrot, cream cheese, easter, flavor flours, frosting

Rabbit Bunny Buns for Easter

Mar 30 by Anita 21 Comments

  How’s the weather where you are? It’s positively spring in the Bay Area: sunny skies abound, pollen is everywhere, and everyone I know seems to be going on spring break (maybe to escape the pollen). Our own trip is coming up soon, plus we’ve got to get through Easter first!...

Filed Under: Breads, Recipes Tagged With: bread, bunny, chinese baking, easter, soft roll

Fluffy Marshmallow Creme Macarons for Easter

Apr 14 by Anita 6 Comments

Happy almost Easter! I’m looking forward to Isabelle’s first Easter egg hunt, since she was too little last year to go hunting for eggs. She’s still too little for Easter candy, fortunately: hopefully when she’s older and finds out I kept all the chocolate bunnies and jellybeans from her she won’t hold it against me! […]...

Filed Under: Cookies, Recipes Tagged With: easter, macaron, marshmallow creme, peeps

An Easter Egg Cake for Easter

Mar 30 by Anita 11 Comments

Ok, this post is going up a little later than I wanted but at least I made it before Easter – why is it when you *have* to get a post up on time that things invariably go wonky? I wanted to share this cake that I picked out from Martha Stewart Living’s special Cakes […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Cookbooks, Recipes, Reviews Tagged With: cake, cakes and cupcakes, chocolate, easter, martha stewart, truffles

{Chocolate Review}: Recchiuti’s Sweet Treats for Easter

Apr 20 by Anita 2 Comments

Warning: There is going to be a lot of chocolate on this page for the next few posts. After all, it’s nearly Easter, the holidays that generates more candy sales than any other holiday save Halloween. Have you got your jellybeans and peeps ready for your Easter baskets? Let me suggest a few other Easter […]...

Filed Under: Chocolate, Reviews, San Francisco, Sweet Spots, Sweet Spots Tagged With: chocolate, easter, recchiuti, review, san francisco


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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, daughter, and dog Max. More about pastrygirl

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