Classic Bakery Coffee Cake Recipe
I worked at a local bakery called Sweet Teensy Bakery throughout high school, and this coffee cake was one of my favorite things we made there. The bakery no longer exists in its original capacity, but...
View ArticleThe Best Gluten-Free Rugelach Recipe
I like to say that my Grandma Fay was “Martha before there was Martha.” She could do it all — but her baking was pure magic. And it was at her table that I learned to make rugelach, and I have her...
View ArticleSeven Layer Cake Recipe
It’s always a challenge to develop a recipe that doesn’t have a clear-cut history. Everyone has “their version,” and wouldn’t think of making it any other way. Seven-layer cake is such a recipe!It’s...
View ArticleThis Sephardic Rice Pudding Is My Ultimate Comfort Food
When I need some comfort food I often turn to rice pudding, a childhood favorite. My mother usually used leftover rice, sugar, vanilla and milk, with cinnamon sprinkled on top. I didn’t know the term...
View ArticleThis Israeli-Style Rugelach Hack Is Actually Genius
I could be getting some reading done or finally organizing my pantry, but instead, while scrolling Instagram the other day, I stumbled upon some delectable-looking rugelach made by Israeli content...
View ArticleThis Cinnamon Swirl Pastry Connects Me to My Jewish Transylvanian Roots
This summer, I traveled to Transylvania, on a Birthright-esque tour for young North Americans of Hungarian heritage. Almost everyone I told about the trip made some sort of Dracula joke. I rolled my...
View ArticleThese Cookies Are Helping Israelis Through Hard Times
After high school, Israeli kids go on to fulfill their compulsory military service for two to three years. For their parents, this means weekend travels to their childrens’ military bases across the...
View ArticleIced Gingerbread Rugelach Recipe
Though often associated with Christmas, the tradition of the intricately decorated gingerbread house is one I’ve always loved. The warm spiced cookies adorned with frosting and fun candy decorations...
View ArticleEggnog Challah Bread Pudding with Spiced Rum Caramel Sauce
There is truly no dessert on this earth I love more than bread pudding, and challah is the perfect bread to use for it. While there are variations of the dish served worldwide, bread pudding is...
View ArticleAlmond Croissant Breakfast Challah Recipe
Before I opened WildHeart Baked Goods, a cottage home bakery which specialized in challah, I was a novice baker. When I first got married, it was my mother-in-law who ignited my love of bread baking....
View ArticleThe Best Gluten-Free Chocolate Babka Recipe
Desserts don’t get much better than chocolate babka, but most recipes for this beloved Jewish bake call for all-purpose flour — not helpful if you’re a celiac or don’t eat gluten. So I came up with...
View ArticleValentines Babkas Are Our Love Language
As Jews, we know that every holiday can be improved with food. That’s as true for Jewish holidays as it is for secular ones, like Valentine’s Day. While food is wrapped up in Valentine’s culture, from...
View ArticleTishpishti Is Sephardi Honey Cake, But Better
Honey cake is a hallmark of Rosh Hashanah and the fall Jewish holidays — Ashkenazi honey cake, that is. But did you know there’s a Sephardi cake traditionally served for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur...
View Article13 Rugelach Recipes To Rival Your Grandma’s
Chocolate-peppermint rugelach, peanut butter and jelly rugelach, and quick rugelach made with store-bought malawach may sound sacreligious, but the truth is this quintessential Jewish baked good comes...
View ArticleEasy Marble Cake Recipe
This recipe comes from the Rinkoff family, whose 100-year-old London family bakery is a British institution. The bakery was founded by Hyman Rinkoff, a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant, in 1911, and is now...
View Article7 Hamantaschen Recipes To Delight Your Inner Child
Classic hamantaschen filled with poppy seeds, prune or apricot will never go out of style. But at The Nosher, we’ve always embraced creative spins on this classic Purim cookie. We love hamantaschen...
View ArticleSephardic Orange Chiffon Cake Recipe
“Pan d’Espanya (called pan esponjado in Ladino, a Judeo-Spanish language derived from Old Spanish) is the iconic orange chiffon cake that has been made for generations by the Jews of Spain,” explains...
View ArticleThis Moroccan Passover Apricot Cake Is Lighter Than Air
Moroccan Jews are well-known for their love for all things sweet, and are famed around the world for their spectacular Mimouna parties to celebrate the end of Passover. With elaborate pastries and...
View ArticleJoan Nathan’s Raspberry-Walnut Rugelach
When I was in Montreal at Hof Kelsten, a stellar Jewish bakery-deli, I tasted the best rugelach ever. The cream cheese dough was shaped into small rectangular pockets, overflowing with strawberry jam...
View ArticleThis Israeli Krembo Cake Is the Perfect Passover Dessert
Passover kashrut laws are always challenging, and the biggest challenge has to be finding a good kosher-for-Passover cake. If you need the cake to be pareve (dairy free), that’s even harder.So when a...
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