BA Bake Club: Boozy Cherry & Chocolate Pavlova

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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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BA Bake Club: Boozy Cherry & Chocolate Pavlova is an episode from Bon Appétit Foodcast by Bon Appétit.

This episode is 48:40 long.

This episode was published on Jan 6, 2026.

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