Good Bakes, Good Takes

If baking is your favorite sport, here’s your All-Star team

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Listen while you bake

The baked goods we covered this season!

We woke up to fresh air as crispy as a fountain Diet Coke. Fall is coming. Which means our baking podcast, She’s My Cherry Pie, is on a brief break while we sharpen our pencils, our bench scrapers (thanks for the tip, Erika Council), and our wits. Essential maintenance, really.

Meanwhile, we’ll let you catch up on the fun (and educational!) food conversations we had with 10 big-name bakers—in between all the prunes we were snacking on. Thanks, California Prunes! Dreams come true when you’re high on fiber.

We talked to chefs from some of New York’s hottest bakeries:

• Lauren Tran of Bánh by Lauren (that pandan honeycomb cake!)

• Shilpa Uskokovic of Hani’s Bakery (those rice crispy treats!)

• Kelly Mencin of Radio Bakery (that tomato tart!)

We chatted with authors of some of the fall’s most exciting baking books:

• David Lebovitz, Ready for Dessert

• Sally McKenney, Sally’s Baking 101

• Aleksandra Crapanzano, Chocolat

And authors whose books & recipes we love:

• Victoria Granof, Sicily, My Sweet

• Yewande Komolafe, My Everyday Lagos

• Erika Council, Still We Rise

• Anne Byrn, Baking in the American South

Stay tuned! New season begins Oct. 18th.

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Shop the show & more

• So many of our guests love this vanilla for their bakes

• Levain makes… candles?

• Butter us up with these phone cases

• Plus, Molly Baz x Our Place x Crocs butter yellow kitchenwares

• Cinderella needs this for her kitchen. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!

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Fresh baked news

• Natasha Pickowicz’s community bake sale NYC 10/18

• Erin Jeanne McDowell launched a Substack

• We went to Cake Picnic L.A. and saw a lot of cute cakes

• Sophia Roe’s salt-baked Asian pears with saffron-infused crème anglaise

• Londoners—don’t miss this cake workshop 11/8-9 with Birdhouse Bakeshop

• It’s mooncake season ⬇️

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From the archives

• Cake Picnic founder Elisa Sunga on Radio Cherry Bombe—who’s going to the Minneapolis event today?!

The cherry on top

• Jubilee NYC is happening 4/25/26! Get your tickets now. Bombesquad members & paid Substack subscribers, check your inbox or this post for your discount code.

• Subscribers, don’t miss our October meeting with BAKING ICON Dorie Greenspan

• Read our Nancy Silverton cover story from The Italy Issue

• Don’t miss Amy Ho (aka Constellation Inspiration) on Radio Cherry Bombe’s new miniseries

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