March 2012

In our region, these popular Girl Scout cookies are called Caramel Delites, but we call them Samoas anyway. It’s just a more interesting name, plus if you compare the not-so-minor differences between the two cookies, you might suspect that the Samoas are just plain better. But that’s subjective, of course. Either way, ours are all [...]
Published on March 29, 2012

Good news! Thanks to ZipList, I am now hosting a virtual recipe box created just for you. This box, which I’ve named “Your Recipe Box” can be used to save recipes from Cookie Madness and other websites. To access your box, go to the “Your Recipe Box” at the top of Cookie Madness. …
Published on March 28, 2012

I’ve been on an angel food cake this week, and after making several variations, I decided to share this mocha version. It’s good as is, but if you have any suggestions on how to improve it, let me know. I’m thinking about swapping out a couple of angel food layers with devil’s food layers (similar [...]
Published on March 27, 2012

Thanks to All You Magazine and Duncan Hines for today’s giveaway. To promote new Duncan Hines Frosting Creations, they are offering three readers sample kits with a copy of All You magazine, four boxes of cake mix, and four different flavors of Frosting Creations, a product designed to help you “unleash your inner dessert artist”. [...]
Published on March 26, 2012

In honor of the fact Mad Men starts tonight, I’ll probably bake something with whiskey. Until I figure out what, here’s a great chocolate chip cookie recipe from yesterday. I can’t wait to eat one again today! These cookies are thick, bumpy, chewy on the inside, crunchy on the outside and made with a not-too-rich [...]
Published on March 25, 2012

After seeing some caramel sauce topped Martha Stewart blondies on Pinterest, I decided to try making a batch where instead of being poured over the top, the caramel was sandwiched in between two layers of blondie. The experiment worked! I’ve only made these once, but I plan to make them again and serve them to [...]
Published on March 22, 2012

Today’s brownie recipe is adapted from a contest winner from Southern Living magazine. A $1,000 “brand winner” in the desserts category, it features 1/4 cup of Millstone Coffee. Unless you brew your coffee really, really, strong, you’re not going to get much flavor from 1/4 cup brewed coffee, but in this case it doesn’t matter [...]
Published on March 21, 2012

Last week a friend told me that the best thing about a certain hotel was the toast served in the dining room. It was a perfectly good hotel, but her memory was of the toast; and I could relate, because that’s how I feel about hotel granola. I always remember what type of granola is [...]
Published on March 19, 2012