by jessica yoon
Salted caramels are one of my favorite homemade holiday treats. They’re easy to make (yes! if you can bring a pot of water to a boil, you can make caramels), they don’t require a ton of ingredients, can keep for a long time, and one batch goes a long way. Plus, when packaged in a bag tied with ribbon, they look like they just came off the shelves of Joan’s on Third (or Dean & Deluca for you East Coasters)!
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It’s the final countdown to Christmas and nothing says the holidays quite like a a box of homemade goodies. It’s always hectic leading up to the big day and so I’ve compiled a few recipes for easy holiday treats that can either be prepped or made in advance. They are great wrapped up and snuggled into a tin as a gift (FYI this is what I made for my Food52 Holiday Swap!) or mini desserts for gatherings! I’ll be posting the recipes one by one throughout the week, in the meantime read on to see exactly what I made and the details for the first recipe!
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This post is part of a 30th birthday dinner party series.
Before I left New York a year and a half ago, I stocked up on one of my favorite tea blends called the White Duke from Bellocq, a beautiful tea atelier in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The tea blend is similar to an Earl Grey, but is made with white tea leaves instead of black making it lighter on the palate. I used it to make a chocolate Earl Grey mascarpone cake to cap off the birthday celebrations of my dinner party. Despite the fancy ingredients, this is really a simple black and white cake that looks sophisticated, but is fairly easy to make.
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Last night, I had the sudden desire to make Halloween cookies. I have a couple gatherings this weekend and thought it would be nice to have some festive treats with me. Since it was so late minute, I decided to forego coming up with a new concoction and came up with a Halloween cookie idea using a recipe from my archives.
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It’s been an interesting year for me with a lot of emotional ups and downs. For some reason, turing 30 suddenly made me feel very inadequate in both my personal and professional lives. I know there are no standardized life metrics, but I can’t help but feel like I’m not quite the person I thought I’d be by now. I’m not as accomplished or knowledgeable as I want to be and I wish I had my life a little bit more figured out.
Maybe this is a mini midlife crises?
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