Lemonade Cake. All glistening, moist, crumbly, and delicious. This is an amazingly good and amazingly easy cake to bake. As much baking as I do from scratch, I have absolutely NO problem with cakes like
Blueberry Streusel Bars. Or, if we’re being honest, Blueberry Butter Streusel Bars. It’s berry season and these bars take full advantage of the tangy goodness that blueberries have to offer. The crust has a bit
Fudgy Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chip Cookies! A new cookie inspired by my friend Gary, the awesome potter. A few weeks ago, he blogged about adding cocoa powder to his favorite oatmeal cookie recipe which I
Pinterest. Or as I like to call it, Six Degrees of Martha Stewart. Are you hooked yet? If you’re into food, recipes, pictures of food, pictures of gardens, pictures of Robert Redford, etc. you’ve probably
Peanut Butter Cookies are good. Chocolate Chip Cookies are good. Oatmeal Cookies, also good. Put them all together and you go from good to AWESOME! Nothing fancy here….I started with a good old standard chocolate
Spring Strawberry Cake. If you don’t mind me saying so, it is a thing of beauty. If you’re not ready for spring, this cake should do the trick. It will magically get you in the
Life Lesson – Do someone a favor and you might get a great new recipe in return. It’s true! During this recent opera season, my friend Mimi asked to borrow some cardamom to make a
There’s a little story behind this rum cake…. I originally got the recipe from my friend Melissa Taylor who is an incredible baker even though she never eats dessert. That is will power that I
Fudge. A chocolate lover’s downfall. I’m not sure it’s a good thing that I now have a recipe for fudge that is so quick and easy to make. I was able to show some small
Gingerbread Date Cookies. Date as in the dried fruit, not the social event. Although I think these cookies would be a great reason to date someone. True Story — when I first moved to Florida,
The recipe for Chocolate Brickle is weird. There. I’ve said it. This is another one of those recipes that you have to taste to believe. Last week when I posted the recipe for Chocolate Pistachio
Every year our local newspaper, the St. Pete Times, prints a cookie issue for the holidays. This year was the 10th anniversary of the Christmas cookie issue so they featured a “Best of the Best
Peanut Butter Balls from my Grandmother’s recipe. If you are a member of my family, you probably (just fainted from happiness seeing this photo) received these little beauties in a care package from our grandmother
Trick or Treat! Treat! Treat! Treat! Especially if the treat is Pumpkin Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting. The trick is that these are incredibly easy to put together. Use a mixer if you have one,
Applesauce Spice Cookies warm from the oven. These cookies just say Autumn to me. If you’re lucky enough to be “up north” in a good apple producing region, you should get all over these cookies
