Our Story in Five Inches

The quality of the ingredients used in creating great desserts matters, and fresh ingredients should be the starting point. When baking, you want the finished dessert to taste delicious. That starts with the ingredients. It would be easy to get pre-made toppings like chocolate ganache or marzipan from the store; however, they wouldn’t taste the best. Fresh toppings enhance the flavor, add to the texture, and include fewer surprise ingredients. When I bake, I start with ingred

Today, you can get almost any dessert; however, most of them are mass-produced. Small-batch doesn’t just mean small; it means quality, attention to detail, and bold flavors that stand out. These are the standards that I uphold in my cheesecakes. An issue I have with mass-produced desserts is the lack of flavor, texture, and uniqueness. Everything is standardized, vanilla, or chocolate, or maybe a strawberry here or there. With smaller-batched baked goods, there is more creat

Cheesecake is a classic dessert around the world. There are different versions and styles of cheesecake. Whether it’s New York, Japanese cotton, or Burnt Basque, there is a cheesecake out there that you are sure to like. Here in the States, the classic is the New York cheesecake, with its dense, creamy texture. When I first started developing my own cheesecake recipe, I wanted a solid base recipe that I could tweak depending on the flavor. What I didn’t expect was that I wou

The reason behind why 5-inch cheesecakes are my signature dessert.