Fall is right around the corner. I know this for sure because I’m now constantly sweeping leaves off the porch and my three-year-old nephew gave me a cold for my birthday. What a joyous season, indeed. Everyone’s talking about flannel blankets and pumpkin lattes but nobody’s talking about the inevitable scratchy throat and sore flu […]
I like to think of myself as a fairly seasoned baker but, in reality (and now thanks to social media land, too) I realize there’s so many things I haven’t tried to bake. Most of the time I’m really content just sticking to my usual repertoire of cookies, birthday cakes, pies, and more birthday cakes […]
I may have hinted at this fact in previous posts but I’ll just come out and say it as directly as I know how: I worship at the altar of the Barefoot Contessa. I could be coy and pretend I’m overstating things but I’m really not. I don’t actually have a shrine dedicated to her Hey […]
I’ve been asked many times what is my favorite thing to bake. I invariably end up hemming and hawing long enough that the question-asker forgets their original thought and moves on. I’m scared to commit (an unfortunate personality trait) to any one thing because I feel it will somehow define me indefinitely. I could be […]
Historically I have not been the biggest fan of cupcakes. I think I’ve always considered them to be sort of juvenile, possibly due in part to spending countless school birthday parties watching classmates lick all the frosting off the top as if it were a puppy and they were mother dogs. Somewhere along the way […]
