Last week I used a few new ingredients in a recipe from the PW. I couldn’t believe I had never used evaporated milk before (unless I had during the PW Challenge of 2010 and blocked it from my memory) and …
Happy National Doughnut Day! These doughnuts were homemade, but you can grab a free doughnut across the US today — check out Dunkin Donuts, Tim Horton’s, and Krispy Kreme! I’ll probably hope doughnuts will be around at the trucks downstairs – if you …
For Ms Mary’s birthday, Becca and I asked what she might want. She replied, Funfetti, or if you’re up for a challenge, ombré cake, but REALLY whatever is easier! Challenge, accepted. This is the recipe I used, which was quite …
The same night I made those choco-coco cookies, I also made a batch of GF cookies. Baking for people with gluten intolerance and baking for someone with Celiac are slightly different, but I always say better safe than sorry. Here …
Because coffee was our April ingredient, I thought it important to tackle a dessert that brought out the wonderful taste of coffee (coffee flavored cake whilst drinking coffee? Yes, please!) I found this recipe from PW, and decided that it …
You may or may not know that I usually don’t do banana. Not because I don’t like them – I do like a banana now and then! I just subscribe to the idea that one should eat locally sourced produce, …
Around Easter, a co-workers birthday prompted me to make some strawberry cupcakes with buttercream frosting. But I also wanted them to be somewhat special – so I topped them with dark chocolate eggs. OK, so really I just wanted dark …
For a friend’s recent birthday, she requested tiramisu as the dessert of choice. I had never made tiramisu before, but Rebecca had made it once, and we had a few recipes on hand that made it look interesting. I say …
Update: We have a new and improved version of this tutorial! Go here. Happy Valentine’s Day! One year ago, Jessica sent Mary and I this blog post by I Am Baker for a photo shoot about hearts in weird places. This totally qualifies. …
March’s Food Network Magazine is the chocolate issue. Jeff brought it to me at work, which meant that it went around the cubes, and landed in the hands of Jasmine. Whose birthday happened to be last week. So she marked …
