Scaled Down Recipes

A few people have requested smaller batch, scaled down recipes, so with that in mind (and because I needed an excuse to try this), I made a loaf pan version of the Chocolate Chip Oreo Brownie Bars using two different flavors of Oreos — the surprisingly tasty Berry Burst Ice Cream flavor and the chocolate [...]
Published on April 23, 2012

School resumed today, so I guess the holidays are officially over. No more spontaneous trips to the roller rink or mid-afternoon trapeze classes. That’s Fuzz (in case you thought it was me) whose latent talent for the trapeze arts came out yesterday at Trapeze Austin. She’s never been to the circus, but she says she’s [...]
Published on January 5, 2012

Easter falls on April 24, and like every year around this time, I’ve started baking with carrots. In fact this past weekend I found a really good carrot bread which I am happy to share. It’s from The Austin Junior League’s “Necessities and Temptations” and to make it, you’ll need two small (3×5 …
Published on March 29, 2011

There are a few Golden Oreo Cupcake recipe out there, but this one is different because it makes a very small batch. For the base, I used a variation on an old Small Batch Baking recipe and for the icing I used cornstarch icing on one and made powdered sugar icing for the rest. If you need a quick cupcake fix and have some Golden Oreos around, maybe this recipe will come in handy. The kids around here loved these! I’m not sure they even noticed the little chunks of Oreo inside the cake, but they loved the big Golden Oreo sticking out of the middle of the frosting.
Published on March 7, 2011

I was surprised, but not unpleasantly so, to see that all the dessert category finalists in the Cooking Light Ultimate Cook-Off were cookies. There was a Mexican Shortbread, a Caramel Apple Oatmeal, and Heart Smart Chocolate Cherry Cookies, which won. I had all the ingredients on hand, so I made a quick half-batch yesterday to share [...]
Published on January 7, 2010
Sorry today’s recipe is a little late, but I had a hard time choosing what to make. I’ve been feeling guilty about spending money on ingredients and wanted to limit myself to what was on hand. In this case, it involved regular Coke and a couple handfuls or marshmallows. This is a familiar …
Published on March 24, 2008

This recipe was included in a Redbook Magazine interview with Giada De Laurentis. When I first saw it, I wanted to run to the kitchen and try it out, but I was on an airplane so that wasn’t possible. Now I’m home in my messy house with loads of laundry and a batch of these [...]
Published on January 7, 2008