Desserts

Strawberry Swirl Cupcake

October 23, 2022 Desserts

These cupcakes were for a dear mentor’s baby shower. She is having a baby girl soon, and I’m so excited for her. A lot of my friends have had babies in the last few years and I’ve wanted to make baby girl cupcakes for them, but the timing and location of the shower has not […]

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Red Velvet Cream Cheese Cupcakes

August 16, 2020 Desserts
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The past three weeks have been a blur, so this weekend I caught up on all my errands (2 months worth of laundry by monopolizing the washers in my apartment) and had some fun making cupcakes. I even got some roses to enjoy together with Gray. Red velvet is one of my favorite flavors and […]

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Chocolate Cupcakes

July 8, 2020 Desserts
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The cupcakes look like they are looking at each other ^ and are supposed to be eyes and not poop! They were for ophthalmology clinic to celebrate end of fellowship for the outgoing fellows. A few years ago when I was doing my colorectal surgery rotation as an intern I wanted to make the poop […]

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Apple Lattice Pie

May 8, 2020 Dairy-Free
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Every other pie I’ve made so far is a large 9 inch diameter pie in a 2 – 3 inch deep plate. But this pie is a 5 inch diameter mini pie, and it is the cutest thing. You can use this recipe to make one regular sized 9 inch diameter pie or three mini […]

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Pumpkin Chai Cake

April 29, 2020 Cake Decorating
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I made this cake for Christmas but am just getting around to posting it! As usual I spent Christmas at home with my parents and this was the first year I did the Christmas day cooking instead of my mom. I woke up at dawn to make this cake, then cooked some savory dishes for […]

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Sea Salt Chocolate Puddle Cookies

June 18, 2019 Cookies
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One of my clearest memories from when I was a toddler was that my mom kept a box of leaf shaped chocolates on the top of the tallest cabinet in our apartment. Then at the end of the day if I was a good child that day, she would let me have one leaf chocolate […]

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Blueberry Lemon Sugar Muffins

January 22, 2019 Breakfast
blueberry lemon sugar muffin

In the middle of winter when it is definitely not blueberry season I suddenly had the immense desire to make blueberry muffins after seeing the cute aqua cartons that blueberries are sold in at the Farmer’s market outside my apartment on Thursdays. Paired with smelling a blueberry muffin at a brunch restaurant nearby, these were […]

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Berry Chiffon Cake

November 14, 2018 Cakes
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This recipe is the same chiffon cake originally posted in the chiffon cream cake recipe but decorated with black and blueberries instead for my mom’s birthday recently. The basic chiffon cream cake recipe is classic so can be dressed many different ways by changing the toppings or fillings. While decorating the back of the cake […]

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Blueberry Pie

July 27, 2018 Dairy-Free
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A lot happened in the time between the last pie posted on the blog and this one. I finished my intern year, which was a bittersweet end because as much as I don’t miss getting paged about ordering Colace or Melatonin at 12 am, I do miss my friends from intern year. I did a surgical year […]

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Peach lattice pie

April 9, 2018 Dairy-Free
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Pie crust is one of my favorite things to eat because of the crispy layers. Despite vegan margarine having a lower melting point than butter, I’ve found if you cut the butter in the right way you can achieve a crispy texture without difficulty. The last time I wrote about pie crust (post link) I […]

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