This tart has a sable crust filled with tangy ground cherry curd. A perfect summery dessert. These could also be made into mini tartlets. The recipe for the ground cherry curd can be found here: https://thebotanistbaker.com/groundcherry-curd/
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Ground Cherry Curd
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Ground Cherry Scones
These ground cherry scones are a modified version of my favorite currant scones. You can dry the ground cherries yourself or substitute dried golden berries which can be bought at nuts.com or a variety of other sellers online.
A winter in Toulouse
I haven’t had a chance to update the blog in awhile and I’ve been doing a pretty good amount of baking recently, so I have a lot of catching up to do. But as of yesterday, I will be living in Toulouse, a city in the south of France for the next two months and […]
Candidacy (A) Exam Treats- Bacteria Eclairs
Every grad student in my department goes through something called the A exam, aka candidacy or qualifying exams. Its a mildly terrifying meeting with your committee where you give a short presentation and then sit around for a few hours while the professors on your committee can ask you anything about your project, your field, […]
Cabbage Banana Cake
While most people in my lab work on a bacterial pathogen called Xanthomonas (with a few exceptions) we all work on how this pathhogen causes disease in different crops. I work on two diseases caused by Xanthomonas. Black rot of cabbage and bacterial wilt of bananas. About once a year I have a meeting where […]
Art in Phytopathology Year 1: A plant pathogen cake
The American Phytopathological Society hosts a yearly meeting that includes an art contest celebrating the art of phytopathology. There are different categories from nature to humor to arts and crafts showcasing that plant pathogens can sometimes be beautiful (or at least funny) as well as destructive. When I found out about this I decided to […]
DNA and Phylogeny Cake
Our lab has a tradition of birthday celebrations. The person who’s birthday was last makes the next persons cake. There’s usually a birthday crown involved too. We also have a strange number of double birthdays in the lab and since I like making themed cakes I try to incorporate both of the birthday people into […]
My first ever wedding cake!! (Mushroom Themed)
A few months ago a professor in my department asked me if I would have any interest in making her cake for a July wedding. I’ve wanted to make a wedding cake for ages, but the right opportunity hadn’t come up before. The wedding was for 80 people in a barn overlooking Cayuga lake nearby […]