Baking & Desserts

Chocolate Brownie Cake

Whenever I have a long weekend, I get so excited about all of the new recipes (or old standards) I can try with a few extra free hours. Long summer weekends are for family gatherings, friend grill-outs or just making an entire cake for just you and your spouse. Or just you. Either way, it’s […]

Simple Blueberry Muffins

Welcome to Muffin Week! It’s an exciting time for a few awesome food bloggers to join together to share some satisfying recipes for your favorite cupcake-shaped breakfast treat. You’ll find the full spread of savory, sweet, healthy and indulgent muffin recipes over at A Joyfully Mad Kitchen. I’ll be honest. I’m a little picky about muffins. […]

Blackberry Icebox Cake

I asked Instagram, and you all voted. So today’s recipe is for Blackberry Icebox Cake per requested. For those of you who were interested in the quick tabbouleh, don’t worry. It will just be coming up in a few weeks. I don’t blame you. This icebox cake was a surprise. Sure- I knew that it […]

Banana Loaf

We all love Mary Berry. Either you’re virtually “praise hands-ing” me in affirmation or you just don’t know who Mary Berry is. If you’re in the latter group, then welcome to the sweet, soothing and wonderful world of The Great British Baking Show. It’s a PBS wonder where British amateur bakers compete to be the […]

French Chess Pie

Do you ever go through old cookbooks just to see what they hold inside? Cookbooks are a treasure. They’re almost like memory books or scrapbooks that tell you a lot about the time in which they were written or who wrote them. Once I had a coworker who brought in boxes and boxes of 20+-year-old […]