Our Share of the Harvest

Full disclosure, this was not at all the recipe I intended to make.  I’ve been on the hunt for a recipe for a breakfast pastry of a very certain variety and I thought this one would be a close approximation.  It wasn’t, but it still made a damn good coffee cake.  It was bright and [...]

One of my favorite cakes to make for a special birthday involves a cheesecake layer between two cake layers then dripping the whole thing in chocolate ganache.  For a friend’s October birthday, I used chocolate cake and pumpkin spice latte cheesecake; Greg is a peanut butter cup lover so his version has chocolate cake and [...]

In case you haven’t seen the zillions of commercials telling you to buy flowers and candy or taken a stroll through a card aisle that has been swathed in pink or red, Valentine’s Day is upon us.  As such, the theme for this month’s What’s Baking is baking with V-day colors. I had those leftover [...]

  When I was in middle school, I despised Valentine’s Day with the fire of a thousand Black Hole Suns (you like the grunge reference, teenagers of the 90′s??).  The whole day was the epitome of preteen/teenage awkwardness.  The guy you liked gave flowers to someone else, your best friend was embarrassed to the core [...]

We got snow in October.  OCTOBER!  And, since then, we’ve had just a small dusting.  Lucky for me, I happened to bake for this month’s challenge–a “snow day treat”–on the day we got that dusting.  It was cold and icy and even though I wasn’t the one who had to walk the dog, I wanted [...]