Sifting Focus - Baking Recipes and Photography by Los Angeles Food Blogger, Mary Weinberg

Fig Jam, Pear and Pistachio Coffeecake and Baking in a Toaster Oven

Posted on September 28, 2014 • 7 comments

Do you know how frustrating it can be when baking is your passion and you don’t have an oven? VERY!!! Two weeks ago, just as I was rolling out the pastry for Howie’s birthday pie, my oven ‘short circuited’. Literally. … Continue reading →

Posted under Baking, Breakfast, Cakes, Toaster Oven Baking

Ingredients brown sugar, buttermilk, cardamom, cinnamon, fruit, ginger, jam, nutmeg, nuts, pears, pistachios

Eggnog Cake

Posted on November 17, 2012 • 7 comments

They must have been great parties. If memory’s eye sees truths, then they were. If pictures hold a thousand words, then they were. My parents would have holiday cocktail parties at our house when we were little. No children – … Continue reading →

Posted under Baking, Cakes, Desserts, Holiday Baking

Ingredients bourbon, butter, cake flour, egg yolks, eggnog, nutmeg, sugar

Brown Sugar,Pear and Pistachio Cake with Spiced Buttercream

Posted on October 8, 2012 • 24 comments

"Brown Sugar, Pear and Pistachio Cake Recipe"

Life is full of decision making. I once read that we make, on average, around seventy decisions in any given day. From when to rise, what to eat for breakfast, whether or not to go to the gym, – to … Continue reading →

Posted under Baking, Cakes, Desserts

Ingredients brown sugar, butter, cinnamon, ginger, mascarpone, nutmeg, pears, pistachios