Molly Yeh: Salami Matzo Brei
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.4 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Molly Yeh is the Emmy- and James Beard Award-nominated star of Girl Meets Farm on the Food Network; owner of Bernie’s, a bakery and cafe in East Grand Forks, Minnesota; and a bestselling cookbook author. Her new cookbook is Sweet Farm, 100 dessert recipes that feature oh-so-Molly flavors like tahini, marzipan, hawaij and halva, plus a whole chapter devoted to Midwestern cookie salads!
Molly tells host Rachel Belle how her relationship to sprinkles has changed as she’s gotten older; how she, a Juilliard graduate with a degree in percussion, ended up living on a sugar-beet farm on the Minnesota/North Dakota border; what a cookie salad is; and her secret to being an excellent baker. Molly bakes beautiful, buttery, super-moist cakes, sometimes testing a recipe more than 30 times to get it right.
All that cake talk got Rachel thinking about Cake Picnic, an event in March that went super-viral, where home bakers brought and devoured nearly 1,400 cakes in a San Francisco park! Rachel welcomes Cake Picnic founder Elisa Sunga to the show to talk about how the event was born and how she keeps the cake chaos to a minimum.
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| 0:00.0 | Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights. |
| 0:05.8 | Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal. |
| 0:22.9 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into |
| 0:27.4 | the history, culture, or signs of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:32.3 | Today on the program, Molly Yay. |
| 0:35.9 | Molly is the Emmy and James Beard Award nominated star of Girl Meets Farm on the Food Network. |
| 0:41.7 | She's also a best-selling cookbook author. |
| 0:44.2 | Her newest book is Sweet Farm. |
| 0:46.7 | 100 desserts that are, oh so, Molly. |
| 0:49.5 | With flavors like tahini, Marzapan, Hawaii, and Halva, there is a whole chapter on Midwestern |
| 0:56.0 | cookie salads and American classics like vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting. But because it's |
| 1:02.0 | Molly, a meticulously tested, super moist, buttery, perfect specimen of a vanilla cupcake. Molly also |
| 1:09.9 | owns Bernies, a bakery and cafe in East |
| 1:13.0 | Grand Forks, Minnesota. And this is her second time on the show. She was a guest on the |
| 1:17.5 | Greta Gerwig episode, sharing the secrets behind her homemade funfetti cake. You can find a link to that |
| 1:22.9 | episode in the show notes. And speaking of cake, there was an event in March called Cake Picnic that went |
| 1:29.2 | cuckoo viral. |
| 1:31.0 | Homebakers brought and devoured nearly 1,400 gorgeous homemade cakes in a San Francisco |
| 1:36.3 | park, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since. |
| 1:39.4 | So I tracked down the events creator, and we will hear from her later in the show. |
| 1:43.9 | But first, my conversation with Molly Yay. |
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