I've been on a sugar kick lately and I can’t be stopped. There are brownies and blondies and cookies galore coming out of the What’s Gaby Cooking kitchen. I’ve decided that I need to make friends with more of my neighbors so I can pawn off all the baked goods and spread the ...read more
Baking season is in full force and there are baked goods coming out of my kitchen on a daily basis. I’m a BIG fan of just about every recipe that involves chocolate and I have zero self control which is why I bake up a storm this month and then gift these baked goods to friends, ...read more
The Fourth of July is just around the corner, which means we need a festive dessert, right? Absolutely. These Dark Chocolate Brownies with Cream Cheese Frosting take the flag cake to a whole new, elevated level. After all, who would choose cake over delicious, decadent dark ...read more
There’s nothing I love more than a no-bake dessert in the summer. It’s quick, easy, couldn’t be more delicious, and requires ZERO oven time, which is great! This Chocolate Wafer Icebox Cake was on rotation every year growing up—my best friend's mom made it for all her kids' ...read more
Guess what is just around the corner… Memorial Day!! AKA the start of summer parties / BBQs/ pool parties / and perhaps day drinking. Hey, no judgement - it’s summer and it’s the perfect time to kick back and relax. These Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Bars are my go-to for summer ...read more
Okay ladies… let’s get down to business. I’m a professional snacker and I take snacking very seriously. It has to be a great snack in order to make the cut, and this White Chocolate Popcorn situation is EVERYTHING. It’s freshly popped pieces of popcorn, with a bit of white ...read more
Granola is one of those things you can have for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dessert…basically any time of day. And this Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Granola is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest because it’s essentially COOKIE GRANOLA! It's everything you use to make my favorite ...read more
Lately I've been craving homemade baked goods for breakfast - chalk it up to grainy (that's my combination of gray and rainy) days when cold cereal just doesn't cut it. I typically resort to muffins when I'm in a baking mood, forgetting the novelty of scones fresh out of the ...read more
My friend and food genius, Gaby, of What's Gaby Cooking, is back for her monthly column. This month's treat is a sweet take on fall's favorite baked good that you're going to want for breakfast, dessert, and pretty much every snack in between. Enjoy! Anything that involves ...read more
Last month we attended a party that served the most decadent cake I've ever tasted. On the surface, it looked like a basic chocolate cake, but I found out it was actually legendary recipe from Ebinger's Bakery in Brooklyn (which opened in 1898 and closed in 1972.) ...read more
The first time I saw Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I was convinced I was going to be a candy maker (or professional taste tester) when I grew up. Creating wild confections based on whatever you dreamt up seemed like a perfectly reasonable career and the one combination ...read more
I love giving people presents, regardless of the occasion, and feel homemade gifts are often better than anything you can purchase in a store. A few weeks back, my friend received an amazing homemade chocolate babka for her birthday and it was so decadent and delicious, I had ...read more
I've only camped once...and I wouldn't exactly call it camping. It was in my parents' front yard and we had eaten dinner outside over a fire (also known as barbecuing) and my dad had set up a tent so that my friend and I could sleep under the stars. Except sleep never came. At ...read more
I've featured chocolate chip cookies (and slight variations) a couple of times, but I think it's fair to say I'd always hoped to find a recipe this flawless. I had actually read about these on Kate's blog almost a year ago and I'd simply been waiting for the right time to make ...read more
A couple of weeks back I started to think about all of the food I couldn't wait to eat when in Italy - the list went something like this: pasta, gelato, pizza, gelato (repeat). We plan on doing a ton of walking to balance it all out, but one thing I had been nervous about was ...read more
A few weeks back, we made a quick trip down to Olvera Street and somehow left without picking up a couple of their dangerously addictive churros. Since I'd had some success with homemade doughnuts in the past, I decided to try my hand at these, with a cinnamon chocolate dipping ...read more
Ever since I made these homemade Twix bars last year, I've been thinking of new candy combinations that I could make at home. Since my all-time favorite candy is a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, I figured they could only be improved when made with high quality chocolate (I used ...read more
This is the ideal breakfast for cold mornings when a bowl of cereal just doesn't cut it. I followed an abbreviated version of the classic Pain au Chocolat (recipe here), and they still came out tasting like little pillows of air. Make sure to spring for high quality chocolate ...read more
Each time we visit my parents up north, we head into the city so we can stop at the Ferry Building on our way out of town. We sip on Blue Bottle coffee and meander around all of the special stores, where we always finish with a trip to Miette, a cheerful bakery with charming ...read more
I have an entire section dedicated to cookies I've baked for my blog, but I've never featured one of my absolute favorites: classic chocolate chip. For years I tried different recipes, hoping to find the ideal version - with a light crispness on the outside, a chewy middle, ...read more
There are few things quite as perfect as toffee. Bonus points when it's covered in chocolate. And almonds. English toffee has always been one of my favorite treats, but somehow I'd never attempted it at home. Yesterday afternoon I made a batch (from this recipe) and they were ...read more
As a kid, there was nothing that completed a summer day by the pool like the song of an approaching ice cream truck. While most of my friends would switch up their selections each time (between Astro Pops, Creamsicles and Klondike Bars), I'd always go with a Drumstick. And up ...read more
I think homemade desserts almost always trump those bought at a store (unless, of course, baking is seriously not your calling). Sometimes it's just hard to find the time to make something special that looks as good as it tastes. Chocolate-dipped pretzels have always been one ...read more
For someone who's passionate about almost every kind of dessert, I'm impressed that I can actually narrow down a favorite. But then again, chocolate molten cake is about as perfect a dish you can imagine. It's pure decadence, but in an appealingly compact size that's seductive ...read more