Category: Baked Goods and Desserts

It's Christmas time, and I've been baking cookies like a madwoman. There has to be something to leave out for Santa, after all. Yet despite all the baking, we don't have any cookies …

If you've read this blog for any length of time, you may have gathered that when it comes to Christmas food, I'm a traditionalist. We've had the same meal for Christmas dinner every year …

One upon a time, long ago, a fair maiden embarked upon a journey across the seas to study arts and letters with great minds of her age. On her journey, she encountered a knight, …

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusebouches/5196820175/" title="Pumpkin Pie 1 by The Domestic Front, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5196820175_7049146db4.jpg" width="333" height="500" class="aligncenter" alt="Pumpkin Pie 1" /></a> My darling husband is not a picky man. He will cheerfully eat just about everything I …

Fall themed desserts are all over these days - pumpkin bread puddings, cranberry panna cotta, pecan trifle. And those of us with a confirmed fear of rolling pins grasp at these desperately.  …

Sugar cookies can be boring.  Essentially nothing more than butter, sugar, flour and eggs, sugar cookie recipes – even easy sugar cookie recipes – often call for elaborate decorations – piping, “flooding”, colored frosting and even …

Last week was my birthday, so I baked myself a birthday cake. I do realize how pathetic that sounds, but baking my own birthday cake is actually something I like to do -- I …