{"id":152030,"date":"2016-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracious-khorana.45-76-20-142.plesk.page\/pistachio-pound-cake-lavender-sugar-strawberries-from-sweeter-off-the-vine\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T18:37:36","slug":"pistachio-pound-cake-lavender-sugar-strawberries-from-sweeter-off-the-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/2016\/05\/pistachio-pound-cake-lavender-sugar-strawberries-from-sweeter-off-the-vine.html","title":{"rendered":"Pistachio Pound Cake + Lavender Sugar Strawberries from \u201cSweeter Off the Vine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today I\u00a0have a recipe from Yossy Arefi\u2019s new seasonal baking book \u201cSweeter Off the Vine\u201d<\/a> for you: a tender pistachio pound cake topped with lavender sugar macerated strawberries. The book is a celebration of baking with ripe, seasonal fruit from rhubarb to plums, and it\u2019s full of flavor combinations that leave you rushing to the kitchen\/kicking yourself for not thinking of them.<\/p>\n

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I had the pleasure of meeting Yossy<\/a> on a trip up to NYC a couple of years ago over dinner, but before that, we\u2019d known each other through the good old food blogging community. She gave me tips for shooting film when I was just starting out, and I was a huge fan of her blog, Apt. 2B Baking Co.<\/a>, recipes and photos both. They have an easy-going quality to them. They\u2019re simple and rustic but never precious and never contrived. Just like her book.<\/p>\n

When she sent me her cookbook in all it\u2019s finished glory, I couldn\u2019t be more excited about it and for her. It\u2019s full of the sort of combinations I love, little unexpected twists like pistachio in poundcake or pink peppercorns in raspberries that lend a\u00a0je ne sais quoi\u00a0<\/em>to her recipes. Her creativity isn\u2019t for the sake of creativity\u2014the flavors truly work & harmonize. She\u2019s a fabulous photographer and blogger, but I love her most of all because she\u2019s a baker through and through.<\/p>\n

Her recipes don\u2019t stop at being beautiful, and her flavor combination isn\u2019t merely poetic sounding: they\u2019re delicious. Simply amazing. This pistachio pound cake is one such recipe. And it\u2019s deceptively simple. I\u2019ve made hundreds of pound cakes. But this one is the best. Truly. It didn\u2019t last more than 24 hours in our house. I can\u2019t wait to make it at retreats and for guests in our home.<\/p>\n

Best of all the recipes in her book are arranged by the fruits of each season so it\u2019s a simple matter to find multiple ideas for whatever happens to be turning up at your market. I\u2019m desperate to try the campari + strawberry popsicles too\u2026pure genius. You can grab a copy of her book here.<\/a> I highly recommend it. While there are a lot of books out there, few are reliable. I haven\u2019t made a bad dish out of this one. And I don\u2019t find myself subtly tweaking things. Which is highly out of character. These are perfect right off the page. Also, check out the gorgeous video trailer they made for the book below. If this recipe and my shameless gushing don\u2019t make you want it, the video will. And keep on scrolling for the recipe at the bottom of the post. Make this cake before strawberries are gone for the year!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pistachio pound cake with lavender sugar strawberries on Local Milk Blog with Beth Kirby from Sweeter off the Vine is the perfect spin to a traditional cake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1633,1704],"tags":[30,1094,365,1096,304,789,1097,187,880,1098,1099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmilkblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}