About Flo Braker

Flo Braker has been teaching baking across the country for almost thirty-five years. She broke new ground in the literature of dessert making with her cookbook The Simple Art of Perfect Baking and the award-winning Sweet Miniatures: The Art of Making Bite-Size Desserts. She also collaborated with other bakers on The Bakers Dozen Cookbook. Her most recent work is the 2009 James Beard Award-nominated book Baking for All Occasions. She has been the Baker columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle food section since 1989.

Lemon Tart with Blueberries

Lemon Tart With Blueberries

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The fresh flavors of lemon and blueberry are at their best here in Flo Braker’s easily assembled, elegant tart.

  • 30 M
  • 2 H
  • 2
A glazed lemon pull apart coffee cake on a wooden cutting board with a striped napkin in the background

Lemon Pull-Apart Coffee Cake

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“Absolutely the best thing I’ve put in my mouth in a long time!” That’s what folks are saying about this buttery, citrusy coffee cake.

  • 1 H
  • 3 H, 45 M
  • 84
A plate with a slice of pound cake with currants, and a cake stand in the background with the remaining cake

Eggnog Pound Cake

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This tender cake is the next best thing to a cup of eggnog, flaunting those familiar flavors of rum and nutmeg.

  • 45 M
  • 2 H
  • 36
Red Velvet Cake Roll

Red Velvet Cake Roll

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All the red velvety goodness of the classic cake in a not-so-classic form factor that’s wrapped around white chocolate cream. Um, yum.

  • 25 M
  • 3 H
  • 8
Three slices of apricot pound cake with a thin filling of apricot jam on a flowered plate

Apricot Pound Cake

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This luscious, buttery-flavored pound cake is scented with vanilla, almond, lemon, and orange. An apricot filling puts it over the top.

  • Quick Glance
  • 45 M
  • 2 H
  • 0
A plate with a wedge of pistachio cake made from chocolate sponge and a layer of pistachio Bavarian cream

Pistachio Cake

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Take just one bite of Flo Braker’s chocolate cake slathered in pistachio Bavarian cream frosting and we guarantee it will become your favorite dessert.

  • Quick Glance
  • 2 H
  • 16 H
  • 0
Hedgehogs

Hedgehogs

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These chocolate and rum buttercream creatures are known as Igels in Austria, where these edible versions bring a bit of whimsy to the everyday.

  • 1 H, 45 M
  • 6 H
  • 7
Meringue Bubbles

Meringue Kisses

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Just like a chocolate kiss, sorta, except they’re ethereally airy with a slight shortbread crunch. Definitely still chocolatey, though.

  • 1 H
  • 4 H, 15 M
  • 3
Golden Caramels

Golden Caramels

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Golden caramels—literally, that’s what these are in taste, color, and decoration.

  • Quick Glance
  • 50 M
  • 50 M
  • 3
Three mini tart pans lined with classic sweet pastry dough, pricked with a fork

Classic Sweet Pastry

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This classic sweet pastry is made richer and sweeter than ordinary piecrust with the addition of egg and sugar.

  • Quick Glance
  • 35 M
  • 2 H
  • 2