Mary Dodd

Here is a fish taco recipe I recently developed for Goop-hope you all love it as much as I do. (Link in comments.)

What was it like to do recipe testing for Danielle Sepsy on her new cookbook The Scone Queen Bakes?! So delicous and so much fun. Buy her book and bake from it often!!

UES was bringing Christmas cheer today…..

It’s just about gift giving season! 🎁 consider suprising your loved ones with @doriegreenspan ’s ANYTIME CAKES available at The Cookbook Shop at @barnesandnoble Gift Guide | Cookbooks, Food & Wine section! 🩷🥹 The book celebrates Dorie’s favorite simple, memorable cakes with over 100 recipes for loaves, rounds, crumbles, bundts, and savory cakesss. It’s filled with her warm storytelling, expert tips, and my illustrations bringing each sweet moment to life. ☺️ #nkpcreate #barnesandnoble #giftguide #foodillustration #illustrationart #foodart #foodillustrator #cookbook #readmorebooks

Process, process, process! ✍🏼 When I was younger, I really loved pushing myself to make things as realistic as possible. In high school, I was first introduced to charcoal — I’d spend hours trying to create realistic still lifes using only shadows, highlights, and shapes. Outside of school, art classes helped me to draw from references, I remember trying to replicate Georgia O’Keeffe and Edward Hopper paintings. 🎨 Learning how to draw from life and reference inspiration has been such a huge help for Dorie’s project. 🍰 Now working digitally, I pull colors directly from the reference photos @doriegreenspan and @marymdodd would send me from their kitchen — photos of test cake after test cake until they landed on the one that would make it into the book. It was interesting to really trust the photography… sometimes what you think is a light brown highlight is actually a soft purple-grey, or those yellow shadows turn out to be a dusty olive. 🙃 This project was so rewarding in so many ways. I loved being challenged (and challenging myself) to honor Dorie’s cakes as closely as possible, while still keeping that illustrative look and feel. I hope you enjoy the illustrations and recipes as much as I loved drawing them — and as much as Dorie loved baking them. The book officially publishes October 21, and I’ll be at both NYC events below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📍10/28 – NEW YORK, NY (6 PM) @beardfoundation “Books & Bites” at @pier57.nyc In conversation with @emweinstein 📍10/29 – BROOKLYN, NY (7 PM) @booksaremagicbk at the First Unitarian Church In conversation with @clarkbar #nkpcreate #baking #xoxodorie #cookbook #cookbookclub #bakingwithdorie #foodillustrator #foodillustration #cakes

Illustration vs Reference! 👀 @marymdodd , @doriegreenspan , and I were basically a well-oiled (well-buttered? Well-iced? 🙃) cake machine. Mary and Dorie would bake and test and photograph, sending me their favorite shots, and I’d pull from their photos for my illustrations and send everything back for approval, and somehow 80 cakes later we had a whole book! It was so fun and challenging to dive into hyper-realistic pieces but still sneak in little illustration bits —textures and highlights, and my signature splatter here and there. 💕✍🏼🎨 @doriegreenspan ’s new book hits shelves October 21st! Events are coming up fast (October is around the corner)— check her page for the full lineup, I’ll be at the NYC and Brooklyn ones, so come say hi! 🍰🍰🍰 #nkpcreate #baking #xoxodorie #cookbook #cookbookclub #bakingwithdorie #foodillustrator #foodillustration #cakes

Four options for a berry pavlova-I can’t decide which one is my favorite so you can see all of them. Check out the latest @doriegreenspan Substack for this impressive but simple recipe.

Dill Pickle Salsa 1 cup chopped dill pickles (I like Grillo’s here) -1/2 diced English cucumber-1/2 cup diced tomatoes -1/2 cup diced red onion-1 diced jalapeño-2 chopped cloves of garlic-1/4 cup pickle brine from the jar-fresh ground black pepper

Matcha Chia Seed Pudding Stupid Easy Recipe

Recipe Testing work this week for Dorie Greenspan includes this delicious @paulhollywoodbakes . The crumb on this cake is perfect and it is nice to have a quick and easy party cake in your arsenal.

This might be my best Found Heart yet. A bee’s nest was growing under this hydrangea bush….a raccoon dug it out to eat some honey comb and left this behind for me to find.🩵

Peach Tomato Panzanella as a sandwich