"It's all about the recipe!"
It was time for my cookbook club’s “Signature Cake” meeting. A “Signature Cake”, is show-y cake, one that we might become remembered for. A special cake our family and friends might look forward to, or even ask for, on birthdays and special…
My daughter, who shall remain nameless (so I don’t embarrass her, HA!), has a crazy crush on a French exchange student. It’s one exchange student in particular, but there are about thirty others she’s crazy about if this one doesn’t…
You can make marmalade for breakfast! Honest, you can! It’s amazing! I have made orange, lemon and lime marmalade with this recipe—it’s so QUICK! I was very impressed 🙂 I have had better marmalades (hrmm, have I, really?), but they…
I should have toasted the coconut above, but if you are making all white cupcakes for a wedding or something, this works 🙂 Decorations were made by piping melted white chocolate onto parchment paper, letting them set to dry, then,…
Lemon Curd [lemen kerd] n. 1 a wonderful treat cursed with an unfortunate name. 2 a custard made with lemon juice, butter, sugar, and eggs and used as a spread or filling. She spread the tasty lemon curd on her…
It’s the start of citrus season here in sunny California—let’s all celebrate with a homey, yummy Lemon Bundt Cake! I picked three lemons off my neighbor’s tree—which I have spent 20 years training to grow over my fence—to make this…
Here is my favorite recipe for butter cookies—it’s an easy one, and the cookies are melt-in-your-mouth delicious! A Mommy group friend made these for a Christmas Cookie Exchange way back when our babies were just toddlers. Now my toddler has…
Bread isn’t quite the right word for this. Yes, the batter is baked in loaf pans, but it has a finer texture than a quick bread, it’s really more of a cake, a cake that doesn’t need frosting 🙂 I…
