Notes about Recipes in this book

• Warm apple galette with spiced toffee drizzle

  • lorigenes on February 21, 2020

    I peeled the apples and used about 4. Excellent and easy.

  • gillsil on October 14, 2025

    Easy, delicious and impressive dessert. I substituted Jazz apples for the Honeycrisp and left them unpeeled and they worked really well. The pastry was lovely - crumbly and rich. I didn’t have ground ginger and so omitted that and I let it rest for a couple of hours before rolling out. Served with vanilla ice cream and for me it didn’t need the toffee sauce which I think wouid have made it too sweet.

• Tahini brioche

  • Shewi128 on March 11, 2022

    the crumb was incredibly tender, but I just found this to be a blah bread. The tahini gives it a light flavor. I wouldn't make this again.

• Meyer lemon snack cake with crème fraîche glaze

  • lorigenes on February 23, 2026

    Excellent cake

• Chocolate-glazed baked cake doughnuts [chocolate glaze]

  • Shewi128 on January 16, 2023

    This was exactly what I wanted from a baked doughnut. It was a nice cakey texture without being fried. However, some notes about this recipe: 1) The recipe states 6 doughnuts, but their muffin pan must've been deeper than my Wilton pan. We doubled that recipe, and the pans were way overfilled. It probably originally makes 12 smaller doughnuts. 2) Too much nutmeg--cut back by 1/2 or more. It dominated the flavor. I will definitely make this again!

• Dark chocolate sheet cake with peanut butter frosting

  • bwhip on January 11, 2020

    Delicious cake, really good. Cake is moist and fudgy, and the peanut butter frosting is heavenly, and such a great accompaniment to the chocolate. I think frosting quantity could be cut by 1/3 or half, and it'd still be plenty.

• Hazelnut-banana sour cream muffins [hazelnut streusel]

  • bwhip on February 10, 2020

    These were absolutely wonderful. Great flavor, nice tender crumb, and the crunch and flavor from the hazelnuts was perfect, especially with that delightful streusel topping. Excellent.

• Peanut butter cookies

  • racheljmorgan on October 26, 2022

    Thicker and sweeter than our usual recipe (America's Test Kitchen New Family Cookbook), but the cookies still have a nice chew to them. I used an unsweetened natural peanut butter like specified (Crazy Richard's) but maybe there are differences between this kind and the Fix & Foggs brand the authors used. I would personally cut the sugar in these by 25-30% and press them a bit deeper. Did not spread in the oven as much as I expected.