Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention to this blog in the last week or so knows that I’ve been doing a lot of spring and Easter related baking.  I thought I would do a little roundup of the themed cupcakes, hopefully in time for you all to be inspired into making [...]

I rarely get to make banana bread in my house because my husband likes his bananas when they’re still partially green.  He doesn’t like them too ripe.  In fact, he manages to eat most of them before a hint of brown is detected on the peel.  But every now and then I get lucky, and [...]

My previous post showed off the cutest little chicks in the form of cupcake pops.  While I was making those, I also wanted to make bunnies to go along with the whole Easter theme.  Bakerella, who has demonstrated her cupcake pops on Martha Stewart, had a version of bunnies on her site, but I was [...]

Anyone who enjoys reading baking blogs will know the this design is not my creation.  While there are a good many of us who wish these adorable cupcake pops were from our imaginations, these fine little creatures are from Bakerella. Spring has just sprung and Easter is a short time away.  I am headed to [...]

Crumb cake, which is not to be confused with good ole streusel-topped coffee cake, has been around for ages and ages.  In New York, it arrived in the late 1800s, when the German immigrants  started sharing their recipe for krummel kuchen. New York bakeries started making their own version, using a traditional yeasted Danish dough, [...]

Valentine’s Day always provides a good excuse for baking.  So this year, I made  a bunch of sugar cookies.  I’ll be the first to admit that sugar cookies are not my forte.  They have either been too thin, too dense, too flavorless, or the icing is just not right.  So this time, I set out [...]

Anyone who regularly reads food blogs has heard of Pioneer Woman.  She’s been in the food blog scene for a long time and she has wrangled herself plenty of fans.  As I have been on a mission to find the most perfect cinnamon roll recipe, I thought I would try the one that fans of [...]

As a child, I never enjoyed pecan pie.  It was full of nuts and that, to my child brain, meant it was somehow healthy.  Little did I know that pecan pie is sweet, salty, syrupy, and oh-so-delish.  So when I got older, I started to enjoy pecan pie.  But not all of the time. I’ve [...]

Inspired by two upcoming events — Halloween and my nephew’s first birthday — I decided to try my hand at making some of the animal cupcakes in the adorable book, Hello, Cupcake! I decided to choose a recipe and decorating scheme that seemed only moderately labor intensive, but still fun. Decorating cupcakes, for me, is [...]

Homemade Twix Bars – Chocolate and Caramel and Yum – Oh My! I’ve been a very busy woman over the last few months.  I worked in a happenin’ little restaurant through Labor Day weekend, and I started a new job in the beginning of August.  Combined, I was on duty seven days a week, and [...]

The restaurant where I work is known for providing the area with a generous lox platter unlike anything else to be found for miles.  It’s one of our most popular dishes, selling like mad every weekend. I am the resident baker (surprise, surprise) and when I saw the bagels and lox cupcakes in the wonderful [...]

As a foodie, I enjoy a good food blog.  I am always on the lookout for good recipes and food porn.  One of my favorite blogs is Spatulas, Corkscrews, and Suitcases, by Donna Diegel.  Not only does my esteemed colleague (we both write for Suite101 and Examiner) have one of the best dessert blogs I’ve [...]

Like many baked items in the yeast bread category, croissants are often intimidating.  Making croissants isn’t difficult and it can be done in stages, so this recipe is easy for people with busy lives. When it comes to baking croissants, there are generally two types you can bake: “croissants de patissier” and “croissants de boulanger.”  In France, [...]

It has been awhile since I have had time to update this lovely little blog, but I do have a bunch of new recipes and photos to share, so make sure to tune in regularly. Last month, my friends Karen and the Sheriff were visiting, and since I hadn’t seen the Sheriff in a long [...]

It’s nearly 10:00 in the evening where I live, and those of you who know me, even remotely, know that it’s about 90 minutes past my bedtime. But I’ve been awake, tooling around online and catchup up on some much needed blog reading. Only moments ago, my eyes feasted upon what quite possibly could be [...]