For Easter I decided to make a nice coconut lemon Angel food cake for after dinner. The recipe was from the I Am Baker blog (link at the end) and while it technically is only for a coconut angel food cake I decided to add some lemon zest to try and make it a little […]
Category: baking
Sometimes a recipe is not all it’s crocked up to be
I don’t have a picture of what I made this month, mostly because by the time I got to it it had already been cut up and stored. To start, this was a recipe my mother found online for a crock pot cooked bread pudding. She was the one who wanted to try it out, […]
With All My Love
For valentines day I made a frankenstein of a cake. By that I mean I used parts of multiple recipes and cobbled them all together into a cake that was far too large for four to eat on their own. Personally I am very proud of what I managed to make, but I will agree […]
The Holidays Have Rolled on Past
I have decided not to start any more posts with “should have “ or “planned to”. To paraphrase Gandalf, I post neither late nor early, I post precisely when I mean to. That said, I haven’t been baking much since we’ve been clearing out all the leftover cookies and candy from Christmas and New year, […]
Going Banana for Banana Bread
Since I didn’t get this posted last month I wanted to put it out this month, a quick little baking update before we head into the busy holiday season. We had a bunch of banana’s going black last month so I whipped up some banana bread, and I must say I have impressed even myself. […]
When life gives you lemons
You make lemon poppy seed muffins. To be more accurate I was craving lemon poppy seed muffins so I went out and got myself some lemons, but that’s getting too nit-picky. I’ve been really craving lemon poppy seed muffins ever since I bought one at the store and it was… fine. It had the lemon […]
Rustling up some Cowboy Cookies
I saw a recipe for cowboy cookies on a test kitchen episode and I couldn’t help but think they looked really nice. Not quite a kitchen sink cookie recipe they mixed a traditional chocolate chip cookie recipe with sweetened shredded coconut, oats, and toasted pecans. When it came time to actually make the recipe I […]
Put it in a pudding: a loving look at custard-soaked bread
I like bread pudding. A Lot. There is nothing so wonderful as taking old, dry, stale bread and turning it into a decadent, custardy dessert. This is one of the reasons why french toast is such a wonderful breakfast food, especially when it’s done right with dry bread so that the egg soak can be […]
Baking, my Beloved: Why? Baking Breakdowns.
Some days my abilities to bake seem to have just flown away and left me behind. 95% of the time I’d rate my baking ability between good and great depending on what I’m making, but some days I look at the baked good sitting on the stove top cooling and just go “how?!?” Once, while […]
A Dozen Hot Cross Buns
It was Easter last Sunday so I decided to make some fresh hot cross buns for a sweet start to the holiday. Most of the recipes I found called for raisins, which I’m not super fond of, but I decided to include them in light of being accurate to the recipe. I ended up using […]