Jessie Sheehan's Blog, page 28

Easy Green Market Currant Berry Jam

This here jam (on this here yeasted no knead chocolate bread) is one with lots of texture. The raspberries still have all their seeds and the currants have never seen the inside of a food mill. I like my jam this way because a) I like the way it tastes and b) it is easy-peasy […]

Sour Cherries with Marzipan Crumble

No joke, peeps, I’d never baked with sour cherries before making this crisp (crumble? not sure what to call it . . . ). Nor had I ever even purchased sour cherries  My mistake, is all I’ll say.They are the tart, tiny, slightly squishy, and lighter hued cousin of the sweet cherry. They are super […]

(easy) Morning Buns with Cinnamon Buttermilk Glaze

I love a yeasted cinnamon bun probably more than anyone. I love tearing apart the puffy, soft dough to reveal the gooey cinnamon center. I like it when the glaze hardens just slightly on top, and cracks when you take a bite. And I won’t lie – I love the oohs and ahhs from the […]

Chocolate Rugelach

So, much to say about this rugleach, I’m not even sure where to begin – but here goes. I cannot actually for the life of me recall how rugelach came into my brain, and why I decided I needed to develop a recipe for it, but it did, and I did, for that I am […]

Silver Cake with Pink Frosting

And here she is, peeps, my most favorite recipe from The Vintage Baker, the Silver Cake with Pink Frosting, photographed above by Alice Gao. Yes, it’s true, one of the reasons I love this cake is that it is pink and I love pink. But I also like it’s soft, tender, and light crumb, the sweet, […]

No-Bake Margarita Cheesecake

No-bake cheese cakes are some of my new favorite things – but who knew? Truly? I mean I’m going to go out on a limb here and just tell you that I am not really a cheese cake person. I know, I know: bordering on scandalous – I KNOW. But cheese cake is never the […]

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Coconut Seven Minute Frosting

So, if I was on a dessert island and only had access to one dessert and was given a choice as to what it might be, I’d have to go with chocolate cake with coconut frosting. I have always loved the combo of chocolate and coconut – and if the chocolate is in the form […]

Strawberry Basil Turnovers

Well, peeps, we’ve got a recipe here from my book, The Vintage Baker, for your viewing and baking pleasure. I was inspired to share the recipe, as 1) I am joining in a day of strawberry blogging, as it were (and to see all of the other amazing strawberry desserts on the intraweb today, check out […]

Currant Brown Sugar Cream Scones

Scones were never my go-to breakfast item, as I so often found them to be either dry and crumbly or cakey and under-flavored (or all of the above – heartbreaking, but true). That all changed, however, several years ago, when I discovered a novel scone-making technique via the folks at Big Sur Bakery. At Big Sur […]

Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peeps, I made thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies and I lived to tell about it. I am – and always will be – a thick and chewy chocolate chip cookie person. Like for forever. But I was inspired to try something a little different, and I am not sad I did.When I was developing […]