Strawberry Mojito Tres Leches Cake

Strawberry Mojito Tres Leches Cake

I confess that I used to never like Tres Leches Cake. It used to be a dessert that eluded me. I couldn’t understand the concept of a cake sitting in a sweet, milky sauce. The majority of restaurants have Tres Leches Cake on their dessert menu. Maybe it’s just bad luck but I’ve never liked [...]

Orange Blossom Cream Tart with Strawberries

Orange Blossom Cream Tart with Strawberries

Winter is finally over! We got the last flurries this week, and they melted mid-morning under the early spring sunrise. I spotted the first burgundy-purple sprouts of tulip leaves timidly rising among winter’s carcass of dead leaves. How wonderful it is to see the thaw after the long winter and gradually get ready to sprout [...]

Chocolate Lilac Pots de Crème with Lilac Cream

Chocolate Lilac Pots de Crème with Lilac Cream

Every spring, I’m obsessed with the beautiful pastel colors blooming in the garden, and I somehow want to capture all the beauty and intoxicating scents of spring. Lilacs are one of my favorites because they have such a wonderfully sweet, nostalgic perfume, and I have so many good memories associated with them from Louisa May [...]

Thai Iced Tea

Thai Iced Tea

We have been having a heat wave here in Minneapolis! It sounds like a contradiction, but it is true. The weather has been very tropical-like. We’ve had hot days in the 90s with lots of humidity, enough to make me feel like I’m in Florida, and sometimes these are punctuated by torrential rain. I’ve been [...]