Cookie season, schmookie shmeason. In my world, cookies know no season. Here, cookies of all varieties remain damn tasty and appealing no matter that the month/weather/locale/whatever. And if I know you, and I think I do (I suspect you would not have clicked your way to a...
Happy Eve of Christmas Eve, folks! How’s the holiday baking going? Are you buried in a pile of gingerbread men and cut-out cookies? If so, #jealous. TRUE or FALSE? There’s always room for one more Christmas treat. If you answered TRUE, you win! Yep, I’m squeezing one...
Behold, my first Christmas cookie recipe of the year! I’m late. Super, super, disappointingly late. At one point, I wasn’t quite sure I we were going to get here -- I was having worst baker of the year nightmares, because really, when you have a...
Hi! I’m here! I’m alive! There hasn’t been much time for baking and blogging around these parts lately, but I assure you it’s not for lack of jonesing for oven time. In the span of the last three weeks I’ve found myself in Palo Alto, Napa,...
Perhaps it’s the pie baking class I took a couple of weeks ago, or the fact that Thanksgiving is just around the corner (likely both), but lately, I’ve had pie on the brain. Which, I’m also thinking should maybe be more of a permanent thing...
Hear me out on this one. I know when you said get rid of the leftover Halloween candy, you (and your waistline) may not have been looking for a method for taking that tempting pile of chocolate and submerging it in even and even larger and...
SCUFFINS!!! No, that’s not the name of the newest muppet, nor is it a distant relative of the cutest, funniest little birds on the planet. It’s a Scone + Muffin = SCUFFIN!!! I’ve spent the last three days parading around my office, offering my coworkers Scuffins, looking for any...
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of TUACA Vanilla Citrus Liqueur for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Cocktails don’t often grace the pages of this blog. Not for lack of thought. Nor for lack of, ahem, research, if you will. It’s...
Before last weekend, it had been far too long since I’d baked something. Like, three weeks too long. Now, I understand that for a normal person, that may seen like a perfectly reasonable, nay, healthy, interval of time to let pass between the baking, making and consumption...
Another year gone. Another birthday to celebrate. 28. Oy. Yep, today is my birthday. For much of my life, I had mixed feelings about birthdays -- I love the comfort and ritual around birthday traditions, and heck, I really love to celebrate, except, I don’t so much love...