Our Share of the Harvest

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 [...]

I know, I know, in the food blogging world, whoopie pies are soooooo 2009 but, in the rest of the world, people are still in awe of creamy icing smooshed inside a cake-like cookie. For my departmental holiday party, employees are implored to make an ethnic dish representing their heritage.  You can imagine that this [...]

Kristen’s pregnancy cravings have her basically on a first name basis with the folks at Qdoba and we wanted to honor the little senorita’s preferences by having a taco bar and other Mexican-inspired dishes for lunch.  But, after first seeing this ombre cake on Pinterest (the idea is originally from a Swiss website but became [...]

When looking for a dessert that would represent Maryland, the obvious choice was our recently named state dessert–the Smith Island Cake.  Smith Island is a tiny community with its roots in the English settlers from the 16th century and it’s not really known how this cake came to symbolize its inhabitants. Somehow, I learned all [...]

Aside from zucchini bread and a handful of creative recipes, vegetables are not conducive to dessert making, particularly baking.  And damn do I love baking.  But fruits, well, fruits can be adapted well to baking, so ever since strawberries came into season, I’ve been throwing around ideas for how to get them into something cake-like.  [...]