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BA Bake Club: Boozy Cherry & Chocolate Pavlova

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Arts, Food

4.22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This month on BA Bake Club, hosts Jesse Szewczyk and Shilpa Uskokovic break out their whisks and create a picture perfect pavlova. It has all the top textures of a showstopping bake: It’s crunchy, it’s chewy, it’s decadent and it’s boozy. Inspired by Shilpa’s childhood favorite, Black Forest gâteau, we dive into the inbox and dig into listener questions. And Shilpa preaches about the virtue of a cracked meringue. “My point is if it cracks, it's okay,” says Shilpa. “That's really what the whipped cream and the toppings are for sure. Just patch it back together.” Watch Shilpa make her fool-proof pavlova on Instagram

2025 James Beard award-winning cookbook author Nicola Lamb also stops by to help weigh in on what you can do with leftover egg yolks and comes up with some creative suggestions! You can find Nicola on Instagram and her Substack called Kitchen Projects

Send your questions to BA Bake Club! Find us on Substack or send us a voice memo to bakeclub@bonappetit.com. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Getting the girls' trip out of the group chat just feels right.

0:03.6

The Fort Myers area delivers the memories, bonding, and let's do this every year energy.

0:08.3

Start planning at visit fort Myers.com.

0:19.9

I'm Jesse Chefcheck.

0:21.2

And I'm Sholpa Oskokovic.

0:23.2

We are both senior Tuskitchen editors at Bon Appetit.

0:26.3

And this is BA Bake Club.

0:28.2

Bake club is Bonapete's book club, but it's for baking.

0:34.1

We're creating the nerdiest and most wholesome corner of the baking internet.

0:39.5

Every month we publish a recipe on Bon Appetit.com that introduces a baking concept we think

0:44.9

you should know.

0:46.0

Then you'll bake, send us any questions you have or pictures of your finished creations.

0:51.3

And then we'll go get together here on the podcast to talk about the recipe.

0:55.9

The January Bake Club recipe, Bagels, is live now on Bon Appetit.com, and we'll tell you a bit about it

1:02.9

at the end of the episode. But today, we're going to be talking about a dessert that is crispy

1:08.2

on the outside, soft on the inside, and decadent throughout.

1:12.8

Shilpa, of all the layered delights and all the world, why bring this one to the bait club?

1:19.4

Okay, to be clear, I think we need to let everyone know that it's Pavlova, the layered dessert.

1:25.9

Should I lead this up too dramatically?

1:27.9

No, no, it's great.

1:29.6

That was the best part.

1:30.5

Thank you.

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