National Historical Baking Society

My first nut butter love will always be peanut butter. I will forever and always be happy to spend entire Sunday afternoons with a few fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches and Arrested Development. Peanut butter figures prominently in our latest cookbook, and our Peanut Butter Crispy Bars still sit atop my list of life’s favorite [...]

[Ed note: We interrupt this fairly dessert-y blog to bring you something green. We hope you like it. Henceforth, an interview with Sarah, Queen of Kale - mostly unedited] Hi Sarah! This is going to be fun. You are our very first blog interview, and stranger still…it is not dessert related (well, maybe in a roundabout way). [...]

[In honor of this upcoming Mother’s Day, I thought a post about my mom was in order. And don’t forget Moms everywhere this Sunday. Heck, maybe you should even order your mom a Lemondrop cake ] My mom had a thing for butterscotch chips. She used to eat them like M&M’s – popping a few pieces [...]

[Coney Island photo by Jamie Haire] Sandy (yup, the hurricane) really mucked up our Fall. And this Winter just seemed to stretch on and on (salved only by kind customers, great neighbors and loads of cake) so we are really hoping for a beautiful Spring/Summer (or at least a Spring/Summer without any extreme weather) with [...]

My addiction to the buckeye candy is well documented.  It is not something I am proud of, and – truth be told – I wish my addiction skewed more fabulous a la caviar and Krug Grande Cuve. I suppose I should be thankful that the buckeye, a ball of peanut butter “candy” dipped in chocolate, [...]

This is not a Baked brownie. Well, not exactly. A Baked brownie is mostly – decidedly – pure and doodad free.  But this is a special week. This is brownie week (um, not officially in any government recognized sense) and we are doing things to our brownies that haven’t been done before (don’t worry purists, [...]

I’d like to apologize in advance for the cupcake shake. It wasn’t supposed to happen to me. I believed I was bigger than the cupcake shake. Smarter, and more refined. I told myself cupcake shakes were “gilding the lily”. I told myself cupcake shakes lived in the same horrible space as doughnut burgers (two doughnuts [...]

Depending on how you view such things Renato and I are either very cautious or very slow. After eight years of building, tweaking, updating and creating Baked in our favorite part of our favorite borough (yes…Red Hook, Brooklyn!), we are finally ready to expand Baked into Manhattan. [ed note: the Red Hook store will remain [...]

I really like LA. A lot. And I try to go as often as possible. Los Angeles provides a soothing balm to New York’s ever lengthening winter (i.e. why is it snowing in March and barely above freezing in April?). More importantly, LA is the perfect antidote to the unsavory sights and smells of a [...]

Salty caramel is everywhere. It went from trendy to pantry staple (and near ubiquity) in a mere flash and we are okay with that. When deployed correctly (as in our Sweet and Salty Cake or Sweet and Salty Brownie) and with restraint, salted caramel can add color and meaning to life (dramatic but true) and [...]