• a closeup photo of a burnt basque cheesecake with a slice removed
    Food Feelings

    The Why Even

    When I started my Instagram account of shitty phone pics of the food I was making, I was REAL depressed. I didn’t know it at the time. Or rather, deep down I knew but my brain was very good at staring at everything in the room except the giant depressed elephant WHAT ELEPHANT THERE’S NO ELEPHANT EVERYTHING IS FINE OHMYGOD…

  • 7 Copycat Levain Bakery cookies on a sheet pan
    Baking Projects,  Copycat Recipes

    Levain Bakery Copycat Recipe Showdown

    The Premise *UPDATE 10/5/20* I remade the Bravetart dough and rebaked the top 4 cookies in order to accurately rerank them Pre-quarantine my partner and I were watching Cupcake Jemma’s “NYC cookie” video and they off-handedly remarked that we should roundup all the copycat Levain Bakery recipes and try them all. You can’t just say things like that and not…