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 […]...
Alice Medrich’s Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
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 […]...
Rabbit Bunny Buns for Easter
Fluffy Marshmallow Creme Macarons for Easter
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! […]...
An Easter Egg Cake for Easter
{Chocolate Review}: Recchiuti’s Sweet Treats for Easter
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 […]...
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. 
