Grandma Joyce's Apple Cake

Since we have had an unnaturally warm winter this year, it feels like we are a month ahead of schedule. The crocuses and daffodils are alrea...

Tate's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Snow days = cooking days for me.  Or make that cookie days ... I saw that Cookies with Boy s made Tate's Chocolate Cookies from Tate...

Cake Puffs

"Do you know if you can cook cake mix in the takoyaki pan?" my daughter Christina asked me.  I said, "I don't know, so wh...

Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This cake is so good that even the non-living want it ... ***** My colleague Corey gave a wonderful talk at school about the idea of balance...

Smitten Kitchen's Lime Yogurt Cake with Blackberry Sauce

I get a daily feed from the Food News Journal , a great resource that serves up food news from all over the web. I discovered it when they f...

Kulinarya Cooking Club: Polvoron

When I saw this month's Kulinarya pick was polvoron, I closed my eyes and there was Grandma Enrique smiling down at me with her twinklin...

Chocolate Souffles

When we were in Las Vegas, we had a chocolate souffle with creme anglaise that the girls just swooned over.  They had never had a souffle be...

Un-Red Velvet Cupcakes

Crumbs cupcakes have hit the school by storm. Mackenzie, one of my advisees brought them in, and then my daughter Christina, who had had th...

Apple Turnovers

Ever since the kids were babies, we've gone apple picking every year. What was once a fairly rural experience has now become a bit of a ...

The Non-Baker Bakes Apple Pie & To Die For Vodka Pie Crust

I wrote this entry in March, but wanted to post it when I had a "do-over" on the apple pie, which was today (picture is above). We...

Alton Brown's Individual Upside Down Peach Cakes

My daughter loves the show Good Eats , because the show's theatricality and its knowledgeable host Alton Brown makes food science fun. O...