Baking Bonanza

My daughter, the sometime baker, is visiting from New York, and has spent the last 2 days in the kitchen, experimenting with new recipes. Her tiny un-air conditioned Brooklyn kitchen was getting her down, so she fled the city to stretch out in my big, cool, suburban kitchen. She took requests, and has cranked out...

a chocolate hazelnut torte topped with chocolate ganache...

cinnamon rolls, a challah braid...

an apple coffee cake, a New York cheesecake with fresh berry topping...

and a batch of classic giant New York-style black and white cookies.

She heads out tomorrow morning, leaving behind about a month’s worth of calories. Come back soon!