Homemade Caramels and Marshmallows
I love making homemade gifts for Christmas – some years almost everything I gift is homemade and some years it’s only a little token. This year I’ve got a serious sweet tooth going on so I had to try my hand at marshmallows and…
Easy Apple Blueberry Crisp
I ended up with an excess of apples in the house the other day and made Apple Blueberry Crisps to use some of them up. I mixed up apples, blueberries and vanilla and topped it off with an oatmeal crumble. So good! Ok,…
Banana S’mores
We had the first ‘campfire’ of the year this weekend in our patio fire pit. The weather has just been perfect the last few days and we knew we needed to take advantage of it while it lasted so we’ve been outside as much…
Cook the Collection #3: Baking Illustrated
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Cook the Collection #1: The Dahlia Bakery Cookbook
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Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake
Apparently pound cake lends itself to endless variations: here is the third iteration of this recipe, and its also pretty dang good. I had a request to make Raspberry Lime Pound Cake for a birthday gathering this past weekend, but when I went to…
Raspberry Lime Pound Cake
The man of the house had a birthday a few days ago, and I made one of his favorite all-time cakes – this berry cake I first made last summer. At the time I adapted the recipe from one I found on orangette.blogspot.com (who…
Sweet Tooth
I was going to make blackberry jam tonight with the rest of the berries we picked but it turned out they didn’t survive until today in the fridge. So the backup plan is: Banana Split!
Blackberry Lemon Pound Cake
A few days ago we hit our secret blackberry spot again and picked a couple more pails of blackberries which have been in the fridge since then. I needed to use up at least some of them today and I wanted to try something…
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