Happy New Year! I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday. Today I’m sharing with you a totally customizable granola recipe perfect for the “healthy eating” New Year’s resolution. A few weeks ago I was surfing the web for a basic granola recipe that would allow me to choose my own ingredients and flavors, and I came across this beauty from Eat the Love. After tweaking it to suit…
Happy holidays! In case you’ve been looking for a last minute treat to whip up for Christmas, I thought I’d share this recipe for Gingerbread Men from Taste of Home. I made these with a family friend (and fellow baker) last weekend, along with two other cookie recipes (Chocolate Mint cookies and Peanut Butter Blossoms, for those who are wondering). These, like roll-out sugar cookies, are fun to make and cut,…
Hello, everyone! I’m so sorry that I haven’t been able to post these past few weeks. But now I’m back and ready to share this recipe for Linzer Cookies from King Arthur Flour. These cookies are so gorgeous and delicate, and they’d make a lovely holiday gift. Another bonus is that the dough freezes extremely well, so you can make it ahead!…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I just sat down for the first time in 4 1/2 hours, as I’ve been cooking and baking since I woke up. I just took a Salted Caramel Apple Pie out of the oven, and there’s a dish of Sweet Potato Casserole all ready for tomorrow in the fridge. Yes, the kitchen looked like a war zone for a while there… But it’s all cleaned up now!…
This week I’m sharing another recipe from… Yep, you guessed it: The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book by Emily and Melissa Elsen! The others have all been fantastic, from their Black Bottom Oatmeal Pie and Salty Honey Pie to the Nectarine Blueberry Pie I posted a few months ago. But this one earned the title of being the best apple pie my mom has ever tasted, and probably the…
Coconut. Brown butter. Cookies. Need I say more? The second I laid eyes on this recipe from Smitten Kitchen, I knew I would have to try it sometime. It’s so simple, but the flavors and textures are to die for. If you love coconut, or really just cookies in general, you need to give this a go.…
I had been craving carrot cake for the longest time before I made this. I don’t really know why. Come to think of it, I don’t know if I’d ever even tasted carrot cake before. But when I came across this no-frills recipe from The Pioneer Woman, I knew I’d have to make it someday. And a few weekends ago, I finally did! This cake was all that I had hoped…
First things first: I am so sorry for the lack of posts these past 2 weeks. I wish I could say that I’ve been saving puppies or at least doing something productive like, oh, I don’t know, homework. But the truth is, I’ve been spending my weekends doing a whole lot of lazing around and snacking on cake, and a minimal amount of homework and blog post writing. And to tell…
Oh gosh I love challah; there’s just nothing quite like that buttery, slightly sweet flavor. So you can imagine how excited I was to make my own last weekend. I used a recipe from Smitten Kitchen, this one containing apples and substituting the sugar for honey. It sounded pretty much perfect for the upcoming Rosh Hashanah, so I gave it a go! I’ll post a step by step recipe this…
For my birthday this year, my grandparents gave me two food-related books, one of them being The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book. Now, I’ve mentioned Four and Twenty Blackbirds many times on this blog; I’ve shared with you the recipes for their All-Butter Pie Crust, their Salty Honey Pie, and their Black Bottom Oatmeal Pie, all of which you should definitely try. A few weeks ago as I was…