Get your rhubarb-strawberry on! Six essential recipes for early Alaska summer.
You got rhubarb and strawberries? I got ideas for you!
Dessert
DIY some creamy, jammy yogurt pots
The only ingredients are milk and yogurt, and if you’d like, a jam of your choice. Ingredient quality, equipment and technique are everything.
I love this old Alaska Jell-O salad recipe and I’m not sorry
This highly nostalgic salad is a good use for frozen Alaska berries and features a tart ribbon of sour cream running through the center.
Trick out your cookie tray (or hypnotize Batman) with these red and white pinwheels
There are a thousand iterations of the holiday pinwheel. I prefer the two-color variety. I love the look of them, like they could maybe hypnotize Batman.
These pumpkin brioche rolls with coffee frosting are a worthy project
These babies feature a soft pumpkin brioche dough, pumpkin-y cinnamon filling and a maple frosting you tart up with some coffee powder.
Alaska-est Baked Alaska (with help from Wild Scoops)
I am a firm believer that as Alaskans we should own this recipe.
Got Alaska berries? Make a fresh berry pie with salty crust and maple cream
The basics: a pre-baked salty butter crust, fresh berries tossed with a sweet gel, topped with maple-cointreau whipped cream.
Boozy white chocolate chip cookies with Mrs. Fields energy
Famously underbaked, extra sweet and buttery Mrs. Fields white chocolate chip cookies started me down this cookie road
These scratch sourdough brownies bring the tang
A number of recipes for chocolate baked goods in Alaska’s historic cookbooks use sourdough discard. That sour tang seems to give sweet chocolate the perfect bite.