This post is my Thanksgiving recipe offering to you! A brightly colored (and gluten-free if you follow the NYT recipe) super (and I mean SUPER) tart, tart. Full disclosure, P did not like it. This is a fun dessert to try but do be sure to also have a separate pumpkin/apple/chocolate pie on hand for …
Christmas is almost upon us! 🎄 You’ll know this if you leave your house because the frenzy is real! Speaking of frenzy, everyone wants to make sugar cookie dough faster than fast, right? Cook’s Illustrated November-December issue has a recipe that does just that. It’s so fast you don’t even have to let the butter …
I baked a strawberry chiffon cake with my mom last week! Tennessee strawberries are ripe, y’all, and it’s time to hatch a strawberry plan. Of course the first thing that comes to mind is pairing them with a sponge cake. It’s simple, not overtly sweet, and an awesome vessel for red-ripe strawberries. Strawberry chiffon cake is also the perfect …
In honor of all things Patrick-y (saintly or not) and my sissy’s birthday, I’ve baked my first ever shortbread, and man, is it every buttery and flaky! I’ve only ever had the shortbread that comes in the red plaid box and of course this recipe for homemade shortbread cannot even compare. It’s the perfect after-lunch-with-a-cuppa-coffee-or-tea treat! …
It’s my birthday week! I had a lovely birthday complete with a deep tissue massage, two very nearly 80 degree days, TONS of new cookbooks from family and old friends, and dinner at my favorite restaurant with new friends. I always make it a point to take a vacation day from work on my b-day. For …
Into every healthy diet a little chocolate must fall. Chocolate soufflé is the perfect homemade Valentine’s gift that screams I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I MADE YOU A CHOCOLATE CLOUD! Trust me, this is one gift that will be appreciated. Making a soufflé is not difficult (I swear), it’s just a little time-consuming and fast-moving. I …
I Loooooove Thanksgiving dinner with a capitol “L”. I love all the preparation of lists, grocery shopping and cooking with my mom in anticipation of the gluttonous once-a-year meal it yields. I love my mom’s sausage stuffing the most (and yes, it’s stuffing because she does stuff it into the bird). Here’s Thanksgiving tidbit #2 that you …
Baked doughnuts are definitely not fried doughnuts but basically eating a doughnut for breakfast is like eating cake for breakfast so everyone still wins. This particular doughnut is in fact called a cake doughnut, meaning there isn’t any yeast involved. You can totally be eating doughnuts in roughly 30 minutes from beginning to end and …
The Compost Cookie® is my first attempt at a Christina Tosi Milk Bar recipe, but it will not be my last. I really want to try her birthday cake recipe (complete with funfetti sprinkles and birthday cake crumbs!) but figured I’d first cut my teeth on something as simple as her cookies. Simple. HA. This recipe is …
It’s strawberry season in Tennessee, and to commemorate the once a year red-all-the-way-through-the-berry-strawberries, I thought I’d bake and post a recipe for shortcake.
