What To Bake This Weekend

Cookies, bars and salad!

• Grab a cookie for breakfast! These breakfast cookies are packed with healthy ingredients for a fast, easy and nutritious breakfast. They’re perfect for busy summer mornings.

• I love these blueberry bars as a summer treat. The berries shine through when you get your hands on some fresh, ripe fruit or use the frozen stash you have on hand! Or find more blueberry recipes here.

• Peach season is upon us! This Fresh Peach Pie from the peach episode of Zoë Bakes (Stream on HBO Max) is a delicious way to celebrate summer. My peach and heirloom tomato salad got cut from the episode (just not enough time), but I’ve shared the recipe at ZoëBakes.com so you can enjoy it during the peak peach season!

  Stay tuned for TWO new peach desserts coming to my “Extras” subscribers this weekend.

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What I’m Reading and Other Things I’m Excited About!

with Elizabeth at my book signing in San Francisco

One of my culinary heroes and friends, Liz Prueitt, has started a delicious journey into Gluten-Free baking and is sharing all she’s learned and what she is creating in her Substack, Have Your Cake. She is one of the most esteemed pastry chefs in the game and opened the Tartine Bakery in San Francisco decades ago. It was the bakery I always wanted to open. Exquisite pastry and where everyone wanted to be. That’s the same vibe she’s created at her substack. If you or anyone you bake for is Gluten-Free, you’ll want to subscribe to Have Your Cake!

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QUESTION FOR YOU! My husband planted a sour cherry tree in our backyard a few years ago and this year we had a bumper crop. I am so excited to bake with them but first I need to pit them. I bought a pitter that had high marks but I think it is a better design for larger sweet cherries, it ripped out too much of the flesh on the tiny sour cherries. Do you have a sour cherry pitter you recommend? Please let me know in the comments below!