Fruity Pumpkin Bundt Cake
This bundt cake is moist, pumpkin rich, studded with 2 cups of dried fruit and nuts, with a splash o’ rum, a hearty heap o’ cinnamon and topped with an orange-cinnamon glaze—what’s not to like?! I’ve been making this cake…
Category: Christmas
Polly’s Yorkshire Puddings
Every good English roast dinner needs Yorkshire Puddings and gravy. My aunts made Yorkshire Puddings like it was nothing. They just whipped them out, popped them in the oven, and every one turned out perfectly. Not so for me. To…
Chocolate Cookies with a Peanut Butter Surprise!
This cookie tastes much, much better than it looks. It also tastes much, much better than it’s list of ingredients. Take a bite; trust me! There’s a layer of peanut butter inside! As one of my friends said, one who shall…
White Chocolate Spice Cookies
Today I am sharing a White Chocolate Spice Cookie recipe. This cookie is deliciously spicy from the black pepper in the dough, and deliciously decadent because of the white chocolate decoration, mmmm. It’s a cookie for grown ups! My friend Kayte…
Cream Cheese Sugar Cookies
Tomorrow we’re making Christmas sugar cookies then heading out to see the Christmas lights. It’s finally beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! This recipe is from King Arthur Flour, and the photo is from there, too. The…
Minty Malty Hot Chocolate
You HAVE to try this! It’s delicious, and it’s mild and smooth and warm and comforting, and sooooo Christmas-y! I don’t know about you, but I don’t like bitter hot chocolate (Starbucks), and I don’t like hot chocolate that is so…
White Mint-Dark Chocolate Layer Cake
I know, I know, this isn’t a great picture. Please don’t let that put you off though! This is a delicious cake, one of my best! I found the original recipe on epicurious.com the year that my twins graduated from high…
Peanut Butter Blossoms
There are other cookies on this plate, but this recipe is for the large cookie on each side of the plate, the one with either a Hershey’s Hugs or Kiss in the middle. My daughter, Abby, is the cookie-baker in…