Recipes

Viet Coffee Marble Levain-Style Cookies

Viet Coffee Marble Levain-Style Cookies

If y’all aren’t familiar with the infamousss super thicc gooey cookies from Levain Bakery in NYC, you should be! Thanks to some friends’ suggestions, I made my own version – marbled with coffee-flavored dough, white and dark chocolate chips, and toasted pecans!⁣⁣ They’re crispy on […]

Viet Iced Coffee Cookies

Viet Iced Coffee Cookies

These soft, crispy, chewy cookies are flavored with real espresso and rippled with both white and dark chocolate chips to resemble the rich taste of Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk on ice! The big secret to these cookies – they don’t actually have Vietnamese coffee […]

Hojicha Sea Salt Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hojicha Sea Salt Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies

These hojicha (roasted matcha)-flavored cookies are speckled with dark chocolate and toffee bits and finished with a sprinkling of Maldon sea salt flakes – suitable for mildly sweet tastebuds and a great companion to a cup of coffee. Ingredients Makes 14 cookies 8 tbsp (1 […]

Ginger Spice Creme Brulee Cookies

Ginger Spice Creme Brulee Cookies

Ingredients Makes about 20 cookies For the dough: 3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened 1/2 cup (113g) brown sugar 1/2 cup (100g) sugar 1 large egg 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 cup (240g) all-purpose flour 2 tsp cornstarch 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp […]

Chocolate Mochi-Filled Churro Cookies

Chocolate Mochi-Filled Churro Cookies

Classic churro meets trendy mochi cookie – these cookies have a cinnamon cookie shell coating a stretchy chocolate mochi surprise! At first, I made a mochi that would harden after literally a couple hours – turns out all I needed was to add more hydration […]

Small Batch O’ Cinnamon Rolls – Perfectly Soft & Chewy!

Small Batch O’ Cinnamon Rolls – Perfectly Soft & Chewy!

If you’re American, when you think cinnamon rolls, you’re probably thinking of the rolls from Cinnabon. Soft & fluffy, yet perfectly CHEWY – this is what my mom and I crave out of these buns. My mom loves their cinnamon rolls, and even though they […]

Coconut Flan (Bánh Flan Dừa)

Coconut Flan (Bánh Flan Dừa)

Flan – a sweetened egg custard dessert with a caramel topping. Many cultures have their own version of flan. In my mind, flan is the random occurrence dessert – my mom makes it when she just feels like it. I like it that way; getting […]

Mango Float (No-Bake Filipino Mango Icebox Cake)

Mango Float (No-Bake Filipino Mango Icebox Cake)

In this classic Filipino dessert, I add my own twist by combining mango curd with the whipped cream and topping it off with more mango curd. This results in the best mango flavor running all throughout the cake! If you don’t know what an icebox […]

Korean Cream Cheese Garlic Bread

Korean Cream Cheese Garlic Bread

You might be wondering: what the hell are you doing putting cream cheese on garlic bread? And what even makes it Korean? I promise you I’m not a koreaboo, there’s just so many fun street foods and snacks in Korea that I can’t help being […]

Gochujang-Glazed Onigiri with Teriyaki Spam

Gochujang-Glazed Onigiri with Teriyaki Spam

This is quick blog post for a recipe I didn’t think would be one of my most popular to be honest – but I’m glad it is! This recipe is perfect for when you want to use up your pantry items, which is even better […]