Tuesdays with Dorie: Tall and Creamy Cheesecake

This week Anne of Anne Strawberry chose the Tall and Creamy Cheesecake.  I actually made this back in October for the Stewardship Dinner at my church where I made the desserts.  I wanted a simple cheesecake, and this delivered.  This was a great basic cheesecake and it would be so easy to adapt to your [...]

December Daring Bakers: French Yule Log

I was pretty excited when I saw the December 2008 challenge.  It was nice that it was something sweet, which gave me a great dessert to serve for our Christmas party.  I have really been wanting to go back and make the yule log from December 2007, and I still plan to, since I wasn’t [...]

Cappuccino Fudge

When I saw this fudge on Annie’s blog last year, I knew that I wanted to try it.  I do not like drinking coffee, but I love the flavor of coffee in desserts, especially the chocolate/coffee combination (oddly enough my mom is just the opposite…she drinks coffee everyday but can’t stand the taste in anything [...]

Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies

Can you believe it’s almost Christmas?  After a very busy last week of school, I am finally on Christmas Break.  I baked so much during the last week for various parties and other events, so I have quite a few blog updates to do.  At work we had a cookie exchange and when I was [...]

Devil’s Food Cake with Peppermint Frosting

As soon as I saw this cake on the cover of the December 2008 issue of Bon Appetit, I couldn’t wait to make it.  It wasn’t even a week after the magazine arrived in the mail that I set out to make it.  Unfortunately, this time it was a disaster.  Once I cut into the [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie: Buttery Jam Cookies

We made another cookie this week for Tuesdays with Dorie.  Heather of Randomosity and the Girl chose the Buttery Jam Cookies, which can be found on p.80 of Dorie’s book.  I must say that I was not thrilled with these.  I guess I was expecting them to be more like the Linzer Sables or thumbprint [...]

Brooklyn Brownout Cake

This cake was bookmarked right away when I first looked through the Sweet Melissa Baking Book. From the way she described it, I knew it was going to be good.  I waited until I had an opportunity to make it, and it was worth the weight wait.  I made this for our dinner group because [...]

Rustic Dinner Rolls

Since I’ve gotten into making homemade bread this past year, I wanted to make some special bread for Thanksgiving this year.  I thought about making Parker House Rolls again since I liked them so much last time I made them, but when I saw these rolls in Cook’s Illustrated, I knew I wanted to make [...]

Tuesdays with Dorie: Sugar Cookies

I have been searching for a good sugar cookie recipe, so I was excited about trying Ulrike’s choice for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe.  My husband has an obsession for the sugar cookies from the Great American Cookie Company.  I must agree with him; they are the best sugar cookies I’ve ever had.  They [...]

Chocolate Gingerbread Cake and 1 Year Blog Anniversary!

It’s hard to believe that it’s been one year since I started this blog.  I have had so much fun over the past year baking and cooking all kinds of new dishes and goodies for this blog.  I feel that my kitchen skills have improved so much and I feel confident making all kinds of [...]