December 2011

My New Year’s resolution was to drink more wine. Goal accomplished! So this year’s is to make more cakes, and to get started, I used a recipe from XO Jane. They don’t have a recipe section (yet), but a creative baker named Marianne took took a whiskey cake recipe from the New …
Published on December 31, 2011

Will 2012 be the year for layer cakes? I don’t know, but I’d happily embrace that trend if it were to catch on. So let’s hope for a year of exciting and/or really good cake recipes. Until then, here’s a round-up of my favorites. For chocolate cake, here are 9 favorites plus the …
Published on December 30, 2011

Fuzz and I made these in an attempt to use up some oranges we bought earlier in the week. And while we typically don’t love orange flavor in bread nor honey flavor in large amounts, the two flavors balanced each other out and tasted great. What was really special was the texture. Unlike heavy, biscuit-like [...]
Published on December 29, 2011

Fuzz and her friends love cake mix based confetti cookies, so I was really happy to see a scratch version in my newly acquired Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook. If you don’t have the book, you can grab the Confetti Cookie recipe off Serious Eats. And if you’re still on the fence about getting the book, [...]
Published on December 27, 2011

The post-holiday blahs have zapped my motivation to try anything new, but here’s a fairly old chocolate chip cookie you might have missed or just forgotten about. I baked some this morning and figured they were worth posting, especially since some of you love chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and soft chewy centers. This [...]
Published on December 26, 2011

If you haven’t perfected classic New York style cheesecake, here’s a recipe worth trying in the new year. I’ve made it twice in the past two weeks and think it might be our new go-to cheesecake. Or at least I hope. I need to stop hopping from one cheesecake recipe to another. Anyhow, this one [...]
Published on December 24, 2011

I’m quite happy with the 1001 Cookie Starter Mix. Just look at these chocolate chips cookies. These were made with the homemade mix I told you about yesterday (congratulations to Mary, btw, for winning the giveaway). It makes baking multiple types of cookies more convenient, plus it also makes a great gift. For the little [...]
Published on December 22, 2011

I should probably be baking Christmas cookies today, but I felt like brownies and wanted to try a quick trick someone pointed out on one of my old brownie recipes. That is, to make this particular recipe gluten free, all you need is to use a little rice flour and tapioca flour in place of [...]
Published on December 20, 2011