Butterlust

It shrinks, it crumbles, it gets soggy and/or tough. It's a baker's badge of honor and summer fruits' best friend. All-butter, with shortening, sour cream and sometimes vodka, too. Filled with fruit, cream, custard and meringue – not to mention a variety of savory options as well,...

And just like *that*, we’re almost half way through February. Is it just me or is 2015 moving at a million miles per hour?! To say things have been hectic around here is an understatement. Between my day job, Butterlust (Do you love the new design as...

  WELCOME FRIENDS, TO THE BRAND NEW BUTTERLUST!! What do you think? Do you like it?! If not, maybe wait a few weeks (or never) to tell me because we're definitely still in the honeymoon phase over here. I'm 100%, completely, totally head-over-heels smitten with my newly baked...

Springerle cookies. They taste like Christmas memories. With every bite, I am taken back to a purer time, given fleeting glimpses into the holidays of my childhood. The cold, stark white winters of South Bend, Indiana. Long walks around the lake on the Notre Dame campus, feeding...