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Honey Cheesecake with Fall Fruit

Sep 30 by Anita Leave a Comment

Hello dear readers and happy fall! This honey cheesecake piled high with some of my favorite fruits of the season is my way of saying farewell fo summer. Apologies for my absence but has life suddenly gotten really, really busy again? Although the winter months are nearing, it feels like things are springing back to […]...

Filed Under: Pastry, Recipes Tagged With: cheesecake, fall, honey cheesecake

Fig and Honey Cake with Creme Fraiche Whipped Cream

Oct 10 by Anita Leave a Comment

This fig and honey cake is my official farewell to fig season. I know, I’m late, it’s already October and I should be moving on to pumpkin everything. But there was still a bevy of gorgeous, ripe figs at the market last week, and we’re still in the midst of Indian summer here, so I […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Fruit, Recipes Tagged With: cake, fall, fig, honey cake

Peach Plum Tart with Cinnamon Vanilla Pastry Cream

Oct 6 by Anita 1 Comment

It’s a little bit after stone fruit season, but I wanted to share one of the last fruit tarts I made a couple weeks ago: a peach plum tart with cinnamon pastry cream. It was a last-minute creation for a weekend picnic, but I ended up making perfect use of the peaches and plums we […]...

Filed Under: Fruit, Recipes, Tarts Tagged With: autumn, fall, fruit tart, pastry cream, peach, plum, summer, tart

Fresh Fig Mascarpone Tart in Cornmeal Crust

Sep 20 by Anita 3 Comments

Continuing my tart obsession with a quintessential ode to fall: a fresh fig mascarpone tart in a cornmeal crust specked with fresh rosemary. It’s hard to “do” anything to figs when it’s peak fig season; they’re so perfect on their own, I don’t even feel the need to bake them or anything else. The tart […]...

Filed Under: Recipes, Tarts Tagged With: autumn, cornmeal, fall, fig, mascarpone, rosemary, tart

Fig and Pistachio Cake for Fall

Sep 29 by Anita 15 Comments

How did it become fall? It seems like just a few weeks ago I was sailing the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Appearances of plums and peaches everywhere, a lambent harvest moon, and now the year’s gone crepuscular. I know there are fall-weather fans who can’t wait to break out the scarves and wool coats; […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Recipes Tagged With: cake, fall, fig, pistachio


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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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