You know how you don’t arrive at someone’s house without a gift – food or otherwise? Yes, well, my dear friend, who I’ve known since she was four and I was five, has been visiting her mother in New Hampshire from her home in Ireland this summer. Obviously, as she lives in Ireland, and we… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Dessert
Sweet Beet-Poppy Seed Cupcakes
Or muffins. We could leave the frosting off and call them muffins. Either way, you may get some strange looks when you start advertising that you’re making beet baked goods. Sweet ones, no less. On the day that I first set out to make these cupcakes, our friend Jack had popped in after finishing a… Continue Reading
My Favorite Holiday Cookies and a Recipe Journal Giveaway at LoveFeast Table
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Heather, winner of the recipe journal, and thank you to Kristin and Chris Ann at LoveFeast Table for sponsoring the giveaway. A quick scroll through my baking posts shows a proclivity toward cakes, but at holiday time, even a cake baker like me has to have a favorite… Continue Reading
Whole Wheat Pumpkin-Pear Cake with Ginger-Cream Cheese Frosting
The Hodgson Mill “Have a Grain Holiday” giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Manda, who won the prize pack! This is a more healthful cake than my usual, being a whole grain baked good and all, flavored with pumpkin and loaded with pear slices. Whole grains! Fruit! Vegetables! However, I couldn’t help but top it… Continue Reading
Apple-Caramel Eggnog Coffee Cake and a Giveaway from HP Hood
This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Angie who tweeted her winning entry. Eggnog season is historically a bit of a problem for me. A problem of indulgence. There is eggnog French toast, there are eggnog-hazelnut cupcakes, there are my friend Artie’s amazing eggnog cookies. There is eggnog, straight up. There is eggnog, spiked. And then,… Continue Reading