Deserts, Food & Recipes |
Chocolate and orange is one of my favorite flavor combinations, so this week when I was deciding on a desert to take to a dinner party, I decided to be selfish and make something I really like. I began by looking at a number of orange cake recipes, I selected one from...
Baking, Deserts, Food & Recipes |
I am a mass killer of bananas; so I invented chocolate coconut banana coffee cake. I feel so guilty about wasting over ripe bananas. I over buy and we under consume bananas on a regular basis. As a result I am always looking for ideas to use them up. I make quite a...
Baking, Deserts, Featured, Food & Recipes |
I have made nutmeg wine cake in the past as a way to jazz up box cake mix in a pinch, but those cakes always left me uninspired. I would make them as a bunt cake with some fresh fruit or simple glaze over the top and I always felt like the flavors were such a good...
Baking, Deserts, Featured, Food & Recipes |
I am not a baker; I have neither the patience nor the exacting standards to be a good baker. I am a cook; I like a pinch of this and a dash of that. Thus desert can be a challenge. In most cases I am quick to delegate the responsibility to a guest, my mother in-law...
Deserts, Food & Recipes |
My family is a family of chocoholics, so I had to give them a chocolate oatmeal cookie as they turn their noses up in disgust at a standard oatmeal raisin cookies. I decided to adapt the Great Harvest Bread Company’s oatmeal cookies to their tastes by going chocolate...
Deserts, Food & Recipes |
Baklava is a sticky sweet layered pastry that few people can eat more than a bite or two of but this baked apple desert gives a nod to these great flavors with a much lighter hand. There is nothing better than a desert that is easy to make, tastes good and is easy on...
Baking, Deserts, Food & Recipes |
Grilled pineapple shortcakes are a nice change from s’mores for a desert made on the BBQ grill. I bake the shortcakes earlier in the day so that they are ready to go at dinner time. The shortcake recipe that I use is pretty simple as I am not the worlds best baker so...
Baking, Deserts, Food & Recipes |
I could not resist making a berry pie this week, all the grocery store gods were pushing me to make it. This year we have had a large crop of Florida winter strawberries and they are everywhere from the farmers market to the grocery store at good prices. Combined with...
Baking, Deserts, Food & Recipes, Grandma Swan's Cookbook, holidays |
I have not baked a pie from scratch in more than ten years but it is national pie day today and I have vowed to try some of my grandmother’s recipes that I have recently digitized for the family. So I find myself working on her famous homemade pie crust today. I...
Baking, Deserts, Food & Recipes |
What kind of fruit is sitting on your counter waiting to be eaten? Is it brown bananas, slightly mushy cherries, overripe strawberries? Save it from the garbage-can by making it into a fruit bread that is healthy and tasty. I gave up on just making banana bread...
