The first time I tried to juice the pomegranate for this cake, I made a mess everywhere – on the table, on my shirt, on the floor – it looked like a grenade had exploded with pomegranate juice....
The first time I made this cherry tart with vanilla cream, I was home alone and couldn't wait for it to cool down. The crust was calling to me, and I wasn't sure if it was baking properly in the...
I remember the first time I decided to make pumpkin and walnut rolls; I ended up ruining half of them because I added too much filling, and they cracked. But they still disappeared from the table; it...
I remember laughing when I first made this cheesecake with strawberries—my sister was already waiting with a knife ready before I could even take it out of the oven, I swear! It seemed simple, but...
A few years ago, I had some Christmas guests and decided to make this cake with layers and semolina cream, but I kind of dove in headfirst. I don't know what I was thinking; I didn't even have a...
I remembered when I made these orange cookies for the first time that I didn’t even know how to properly remove them from the molds. I rushed, flipped them over while they were still too hot, and,...
Let me tell you about the first time I made this vegan chocolate cherry cake: one Sunday afternoon, I had an intense craving for something sweet, but I didn't have any eggs or butter. I thought,...
Do you remember when you start doing something in the kitchen and just when you think everything is going smoothly, you realize you put the dough in the pan too quickly and it shrank while baking?...
I can't even remember how many times I've ended up with a few eggs, half a pack of mixed dried fruits (the colorful ones, I swear I don't use them in my bread), and a couple of stray muffin molds,...
I can’t quite remember when I first tried this combination of apples and plums in a cake, but I perfectly recall that it was more out of necessity than a brilliant idea – I had some plums that...
I don't know how I managed it, but the first time I attempted to make these nut-shaped cookies, I ruined about two batches of shells. Sometimes they stuck to the mold, other times I left them in too...