Blueberries have so much liquid in them so I always found making blueberry pie quite challenging. However, I finally feel like I cracked the code and have successfully made my pie that’s not runny! I have a few tips I recommend. I also love to add some freshly grated ginger since I feel like it pairs so well with blueberries. 

It got hot suddenly in Los Angeles a few days ago and so I was really craving ice cream. Since I had Medjool dates on hand, I decided to make some date ice cream! I added some rum since I think that rum goes so well with things like raisins, dates, and prunes! This ice cream flavor turned out to be delicious. :D

My friends recently had a baby and I wanted to make them something as a gift. So I made these two cookies! I decided on these two flavors because I’m always a fan of anything strawberry matcha, and you can never go wrong with chocolate. I like this recipe because you just split the dough into equal parts and add your flavored powders to each batch. Simple yet so pretty! 

A treat that I’m a huge fan of is the simple but delicious rice krispies treat! It takes minimal ingredients and when done well is so good. And it’s not even hard to make it well! :D Here’s how I make my rice krispies treats and I also included two flavored versions that I love to make!

For some reason, we’re wired to crave/want things more when we can’t have them. I probably had Sprinkles red velvet cupcake once a year or so. Yet, upon hearing that they’re out of business and no longer exist, I was craving a Sprinkles red velvet cupcake! If you don’t know, they’re the ones who started the cupcake ATM and I was really fond of their red velvet cupcakes. So here’s my attempt at making a similar one! With less food coloring… haha.

Whenever I go to a Japanese bakery, I always gravitate to their strawberry shortcake. It’s such a simple dessert of sponge cake, whipped cream, and strawberries. Yet, this combo is just so good! Not too sweet, but packed with flavor. The cake and cream are the perfect components to make the strawberries truly shine!

I saw an account called Flamingo Estate post a burnt honey tart and upon seeing it, I had to try making it myself! However, their recipe called for 10 eggs and 2/3 cup honey, which for me seemed quite pricey. haha. So I decided to make a tart with half of those ingredients subbing the rest with a delicate whipped cream. The tart has a delicate floral flavor with a strong fragrance of beeswax. It’s a tart that you either like or don’t like.

I love when granola contains crunchy clusters and so I’ve been searching for a way to guarantee them whenever I make it. That’s when I found this recipe by Serious Eats which has you soak the oats in buttermilk beforehand. Ever since making this granola, my parents requested that I always have a batch made. It’s that good! :D

I’ve made apple butter cinnamon rolls and even peach cinnamon rolls on this channel but haven’t made classic regular cinnamon rolls! Everytime I go to the mall and pass by Cinnabon, I smell the cinnamon and butter wafting through the air tempting me to buy a cinnamon roll. This time, I decided to make my own! :D

finally made it this year and just in time! Galette des Rois is delicious pastry made in January to celebrate Epiphany (January 6). You would usually hide a small trinket inside the pastry and whoever gets the slice with the trinket becomes king for the day!

I love persimmons. They’re a classic fall and early winter fruit and since it’s already the end of December, that means they’re going away soon! So, this year, I decided to make some jam out of this delicious fruit with various ways of enjoying the end result! :D

I bought cookie stamps a year ago hoping to make stamped cookies that I found so pretty yet I never got around to it. Since I make cookie boxes every Christmas to give to friends and family, I decided that this year is the year I make them! These gingerbread stamped cookies are packed with ginger flavor that are decorated with such beautiful patterns.

There’s a cafe in LA called Doubting Thomas that has a delicious and beautiful passion fruit pie (they call theirs pie, I consider it a tart though? haha). I rarely see passion fruit in the grocery store so when I  recently saw some in stock, I had to buy a couple to make my own version of passion fruit tart! Passion fruit is so expensive though and so I opt to make the tart with passion fruit purée which is much cheaper! This tart is delicious and my friends all gave me compliments on it! :D

Have you seen Milk Bar’s pumpkin caramel pie? Instead of baking a pumpkin custard, they make a pumpkin ganache, which sounded so interesting to me so I had to try it out. Yet, I wanted to add a bit of a twist to it and something to balance out the sweetness of the ganache more; so I topped it with a hojjicha whipped cream to add the nice bitterness that roasted matcha provides. I also swapped the pumpkin puree with steamed kabocha, which is a japanese squash that I love and is naturally sweet! Overall, this pie was delicious!

I’m always so happy when it hits this time of year: fall! This is because some of my favorite fruits are in season. One of which is the beautiful persimmon. I wanted to try baking something with this fruit and I landed on an upside down cake. Persimmons don’t have the intense flavor profile that a pineapple has but it has a subtle warmth that I feel compliments this cake quite well.

Nothing says fall like apple pie! But galettes are so much easier to make than pies and so I made this apple galette! To up the apple flavor, I added apple butter. But since apple butter takes a while to make, I sped up the process by using apple sauce! 

I made corn butter mochi before and on that video I received a comment about making the butter mochi instead with pumpkin, and so I definitely had to try it! It’s so good. I love everything pumpkin pie and this pumpkin butter mochi has the flavor of pumpkin pie but with the texture of chewy springy mochi! It’s also super easy to make.

Last week I made a dish my mom enjoys so this week I decided to make one that my dad especially loves! I present to you: taiyaki! It’s a fish-shaped cake that’s filled with red bean paste. But you can fill it with any filling you like such as nutella, custard, and even peanut butter! There’s different styles of taiyaki but I like my mine super crispy on the outside yet chewy on the inside. In Korean, we call these guys bungeoppang (붕어빵)!

My mom told me about an anmitsu that she ate in Japan that she really enjoyed. So since it was her birthday soon, I decided to make her this delicious treat! If you didn’t know, anmitsu  is a Japanese desert made with agar jelly topped with an array of delectables such as syrup, fruit, red bean paste, and shiratama dango. It’s so refreshing to eat during the summer! And even though it’s the end of summer, it’s still been pretty hot here in LA.

One of my favorite things I’ve had during my recent trip to Japan this summer was definitely ujikintoki. It was so refreshing in the scorching heat. Now that I’m back in Los Angeles, I crave this matcha shaved ice more and more each day. So I decided to make it myself! Here’s my attempt. :)

My friend came back from a trip to Portland and told me that the best thing she ate on the trip was a baked chocolate earl grey donut. She described the flavor profile and asked if I could recreate it for her. Since it will be her birthday soon, I happily obliged! So, here’s my attempt at making some chocolate earl grey donuts. She wanted them less chocolate with more of an earl grey taste profile so hopefully I pulled it off!

I’m in a book club with some friends and we recently read the book, “Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come.” We decided to have a potluck and so I decided to make the cake on the cover of the book! I love RecipeTinEats vanilla cake recipe and so I used it. However, I also used the regular vanilla buttercream recipe. I don’t really like American buttercream and so next time I make this cake, I’d rather replace it with a different kind.

It’s summer which means its peach season! Peaches are definitely one of my favorite fruits so I wanted to make cakes with peaches in them. I thought about including a whole slice of peach in the cake so I decided to make my cakes mini so that one layer can just be the peach itself! I suck at making cakes though, so I struggle. haha. But I still enjoy the process!

Did you know there’s a Friends’ episode where Ross eats Monica’s Kiwi Lime Pie not knowing there’s kiwi in it? He’s allergic and doesn’t have a good reaction. haha. However, my kiwi lime pie will definitely say, I contain kiwis! I saw these beautiful RubyRed kiwis in the market and had to make something with them! So here’s this pie. Or is it a tart? What’s the difference??

I love corn. And so I also love corn bread! But I find that it could turn out quite dry at times. So I wanted to make one similar to the NYT Cooking’s Meskouta recipe that I love. So I turned the cornbread into a cornbread loaf! It’s has the great aroma of corn while still being so tender and moist! It’s also so easy to put together, so long as you have a blender on hand.

There’s a cafe in Los Angeles called modu cafe that had a perilla lime tart that I really wanted to try but was unable to since it was seasonal! I love the korean perilla leaf but especially love the japanese shiso leaf. Though they’re the same plant, I assume, they taste very different! I was reminded of my shiso lemon ice cream that I made and so wanted to tackle making the very same combination but in tart form! The use of making candied perilla leaves is so smart since many people make candied mint leaves and perillas are a cousin of mint!

I love japanese egg sandos. They’re super popular and often bought in 7-11s in Japan along with their sweeter cousin: the fruit sando! I realize that fruit sandos are basically cake. The milk bread acts as the cake layer surrounding lightly sweetened whipped cream and fruit. How can you go wrong with these? They look pretty yet they’re so easy and simple to make!

I made chocolate vinegar cake, which may sound weird but is actually super interesting! It’s a Great Depression era recipe that uses pantry items to make a fluffy and airy chocolate cake. I don’t consider it one of the best cakes I’ve made, but it definitely is one of the easiest and simplest!

This is the third part to my no eggs recipes series!

This shortbread recipe is so easy since it only requires three ingredients: butter, flour, and sugar! Who knew that you can make such delicious cookies with barely anything. These cookies are crisp and buttery.

This is my second part of making egg-less desserts since eggs have been either scarce or pricey lately. 

I always wanted to try making panna cotta but never got around to it. So, I thought this would be the perfect time to try since it does not contain any eggs and I did! It was much easier than I thought it would be and I changed it up by adding earl grey and blueberries. You should definitely give this simple yet delicious dessert a try!