GINGERBREAD COOKIE STUFFED WITH APPLE BUTTER

LINES & DOTS

 Lines and dots on a City Bakery tart, circa 1995.
Photo by Chris Callis. 

My old friend, the paper pastry coronet. 

WEDNESDAY BREAKFAST

Chocolate croissant get their egg wash before the oven. 

SUNDAY MORNING [AFTER]

Order, restored. 

GOOD MORNING, BISCUIT

We are engaged in a late summer wrestling match
with the Baker's Muffin. Not pretty.
I imagine its like trying to get a child to behave.
Today, success. Tomorrow, we will see. 

LEMON MERINGUE, NOW ARRIVING GATE 6

What became of a Lemon Meringue pie bought at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, put in a
suitcase for flying back to NYC, but sort of forgotten about during a bumpy flight.

INTERGALACTIC PASTRY

Images being transmitted from the Mars rover Curiosity these past few days have been a revelation. However, I don't believe the image above, which arrived to me through a means best kept secret, has yet been released to the public. In the image, it appears the camera - 140 million miles away - has found Mini Plum Tarts with Sugared Blueberries on the Martain landscape. If true, this would be a profound and remarkable discovery for many of us in the pastry universe. 

A mini-mini Blackberry Tart with ricotta,
a slice of plum and a touch of caramel. 

A favorite lesson learned at an oven in Paris
 long ago: Don't be afraid of good color.  

City Bakery Maple Bacon Biscuit. We've been selling an awful lot
 of these recently. Something pro-biscuit is in the air.  

PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES

FRIDAY MORNING

SATURDAY MORNING CLOUDY WITH COFFEE CAKE

Day Two of a pastry work in progress, 

which does not yet have a name. 

But what is it?

Easier at this point to say what it is not: 

not Rugelach, not Hamantaschen, not any kind of 'pocket' 

['pocket' is the lowest form of a name for any pastry 

in the history of pastry-making. pockets are for pants]. 

So what's in it? It is a Marscapone-based dough with a 

filling of raspberry jam, a little chocolate and walnuts.

p.s. someone needs to make a candle scent from the smell 

of raspberry jam baking. 

FAMILY BAKING

  My mother's Jewish Apple Cake, made custom for her visiting
       baker son with organic flour, organic sugar and organic apples.