This gluten free strawberry rhubarb cake is a whole mess of goodness, and it may look like an actual mess but it’s so worth making this spring/summer/whenever you happen to have fresh or frozen strawberries and rhubarb around. It’s made with a lightly sweet gluten free browned butter vanilla cake, layered with heaps of pillowy soft ricotta + whipped cream, and piles of roasted strawberries and rhubarb. It’s happiness in a bowl (or plate, though it’s a bit of a challenge with this one) and despite it’s aesthetic, it’s a brilliant and easy cake to make for guests or your favorite people (including yourself!). If you aren’t a fan of…
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Gluten Free Lemon Ricotta Cupcakes
A wise old wizard once said, “happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light,” and that classic Dumbledore quip seems especially pertinent now. These are uncertain, dark times, and it’s imperative that we all remember to turn on the light whenever we can. These gluten free lemon ricotta cupcakes were some of the most fun to make and photograph (and eat, of course) because they really are quite sunny, and in a regularly-gloomy city in a particularly gloomy time, they brought at least a bit of light into my dining room, and to the few friends who got special…
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Ricotta Tart with Figs and Rosemary Honey
Sometimes, you just want to make a pretty dessert. I mean, it’s ideal if it’s both pretty and tastes fantastic, so we’re gunning for the two, but pretty things are so lovely to place on a table for friends just for the satisfaction of watching everyone pull out their phones and happily snap away in competition for the best instagram photo. Remember when people just looked at food and then ate it without a single care to preserving the moment in filtered glory? Those were not the days, in our opinion – it’s actually quite wonderful to see so many folks with a newfound passion for photography simply because of…
