JESSIE’S MONTHLY RECIPE

Jessie Sheehan

Jessie Sheehan is a cookbook author, food writer, recipe developer, and baker. She is the author of The Vintage Baker(one of the Washington Post’s best cookbooks of 2018) and the co-author of Icebox Cakes(both published by Chronicle Books). She has developed recipes for many cookbooks, besides her own, and has contributed recipes/and or written for Better Homes & Garden, Rachael Ray Everyday, the Washington Post, Yankee Magazine (October 2020) Epicurious, Food52, Fine Cooking, TASTE, Chowhound, Yummly, Spruce Eats and Little Sous, among others. She blogs at jessiesheehanbakes.com and can be found on Instagram at @jessiesheehanbakes. She likes layer cakes with lots of frosting and cookies that are thick and chewy. Oh, and she has a soft spot for chocolate pudding. She lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her husband and two boys, not far from her beloved Baked, the bakery where she got her start.

May 2020 Recipe – Hot Fudge Pudding Cake

Hot fudge pudding cake, for the uninitiated, is a cake that is very much a pudding in disguise. Essentially you create a cake batter and then pour a sweet, cocoa powder concoction over it, before placing it in the oven. While baking, the cake layer absorbs the topping a bit, but not completely, leaving you, after about 30 minutes or so, with a cakey-pudding for scooping into bowls and eating with melty vanilla ice cream.

Ingredients from the pantry

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April 25th, 2020|Jessie’s Monthly Recipe|

April 2020 Recipe – Purple-glazed Chocolate Cake Doughnuts

Oh, gosh. There is so much to say about these baked chocolate cake donuts with lavender glaze that I hardly know where to begin. I first thought about developing such a recipe for these pretties when browsing through one of my cookbooks, which is honestly where inspiration is often found. I adore donuts – like they are basically my favorite food group. And although I usually dig yeasted and fried donuts, when I stumbled upon a recipe for baked chocolate cake ones, I paused.

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March 25th, 2020|Jessie’s Monthly Recipe|