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This week we were suppose to make cornmeal griddle cakes...and they look like they were awesome...check them out here. But I decided to go rogue this week and make me a birthday pie. Yep, today and my birthday and I love me some peach pie...so I wanted to try the Peaches and Dream Pie from the Baked Explorations cookbook.This pie was very easy to make...I used canned peaches and then s
This week the Baked group is making their own version of Nutella...I just didn't want to go through all the expense of buying hazelnuts and whipping up a batch just to have it sit and go bad. I am the only one who would eat chocolate hazelnut spread in my house so I went rogue this week. I made a recipe that I really wanted to make but missed it for some reason or the other. Soft
This week the baked group is baking rum cakes....this is not your ordinary rum cake, it has a little twist to it...black pepper! When I first saw the name of this cake I thought, ewwww...black pepper? After thinking it over I came to the conclusion that black pepper might just be a very interesting taste sensation to this lovely little rum cake. So I jumped right in and gave it a
These brownies are made with wholesome ingredients like whole wheat flour, honey, olive oil and applesauce! They are chocolatey and fudgy and satisfy the chocolate beast inside of me!! Give them a try! They would be great without the nuts and chocolate chips...so it is not necessary to add them.Jillian's Fudge Browniesadapted from sparkpeople.comIngredientsnon-stick olive o
Baking on the healthy side today and made this beautiful breakfast or lunch dish that is delicious and whips up in only 30 minutes! Add a nice green salad and you've got a nutritious meal that won't break the calorie bank!Asparagus Frittataa recipe from Better Homes and Gardensingredients3/4 pound fresh asparagus spears or one 10-ounce package frozen cut asparagus6 &
Cheesy-stuffed Crusty LoavesKing Arthur FlourStarter1 1/4 cups King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour1 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon instant yeast1/2 cup cool waterDoughall of the starter1 cup + 2 tablespoons to 1 1/4 cups lukewarm water*1 teaspoon salt1 tablespoon Pizza Dough Flavor (optional)3 1/2 cups King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour1/2 teaspoon instant yeast*Use the gre
This week the Baked group is making a cake!Since I love pistachios I didn't want to pass this one up. It did not disappoint....it was most and delicious. I loved the flavor of the honey vanilla buttercream but I couldn't seem to get it to come out really smooth. Not too sure what I was doing wrong. It tasted really good though!To get the recipe, click hereThis one is
Today is my Mom's 85th birthday! I wanted to make her cake and when I asked what kind she wanted she told me that she liked lemon cake and then told me she saw a recipe for a lemon cheesecake that she thought looked good. Being the good daughter that I am, I made her the cheesecake that she saw in Southern Living. It is called Lemon Bar Cheesecake.The recipe sparked my interest b
Another attempt at macarons.... I filled them with dolce de leche made from sweetened condensed milk. I just put the can in a pot of water and let it simmer for 3 hours and got this lovely brown goodness! I think I am getting better. Still think I may be mixing it a little too long. But I did get a nice smooth shell and those pretty little ruffled feet. Yay me!Enjo
Had to go rogue this week. We are suppose to make Chocolate Peanut Butter Fondue. While I am a chocoholic, I was just not feelin' the fondue! So I made a recipe that I missed. Nutella Scones!! These are so easy to make and so very tasty! Well, I still stayed in the chocolate nut family....that should count for something....right? If you have not
I absolutely adore pie! When I saw that the Baked group was making this lemon pie I was so pleased because I have been wanting to make Lemon Shaker Pie for a long time now. I think this is the first Baked pie I have made. I missed all the other ones for some reason or the other. (Oh no, I take that back, I did make the Peanut Butter Banana Cream Pie but that had a vanilla w
No Knead Chocolate Cherry Bread...sounds like it should be easy, right? For the most part it was easy, lots of waiting time and a very sticky dough that I don't think I controlled very well. I was trying to put the add ins (chocolate, dried cherries, and toasted pecans) after the first rise. I patted out the dough the best I could into a rectangular shape and sprinkled
Well here I go again....feeling really guilty for all the "bad" stuff I have been eating lately!!! Once again I tried to make this Baked Elements recipe healthier. This recipe is so quick and easy. And it is pretty good too! I am not a big fan of baked goods with banana's in them but this was good. I was going to add blueberries....I am sorry I didn't now.I substitute
This Sunday the Baked group is making budino! I had no idea what a budino was...and what do ya know...it's just good old pudding Italian style. There is nothing like made from scratch pudding. Smooth, rich and creamy. The milk chocolate was a nice partner with the vanilla bean. Dollop with some freshly whipped cream and you got heaven in a glass.To get t
Buttery richness wrapped around caramel goodness. These bars are delicious. With Paula Deen proportions of butter in this recipe, what is not to love about this delicious recipe.Salted Caramel Butter Barssource: http://www.pipandebby.com/pip-ebby/2012/2/21/salted-caramel-butter-bars.htmlServings: 16 Ready in: 1 hour, 10 minutesIngredients:4 sticks (1 lb) salted butter
When I saw that the Baked Sunday Mornings group was doing this recipe I really wondered what the heck it was. Little did I know that it was a recipe for delicious graham pancakes. Graham cracker crumbs and brown sugar were added to a pancake recipe. I thought these pancakes were good but they lend themselves to dessert more than they do breakfast. They were very very sweet! The w
These cookies are as big as your head and filled with your favorite sweet and salty treats! Crunchy on the edges and soft and chewy on the inside. These are just as good as I thought they would be. I love sweet and salty treats. I used chocolate chips, chocolate covered grahams, Reese pieces, oatmeal, potato chips, pretzel sticks and ground coffee. I was going to add c
This month the Avid Bakers are baking Boston Cream Pie! We are using the King Arthur Flour site as our reference. Boston Cream Pie is not a pie at all, it is a lovely spongecake with pastry cream in the center and a rich chocolate ganache on top. Whats not to like about that! I really wanted to make cupcakes and I gave it my all and they taste really good however, I should
What a nice change to bake something savory instead of sweet. The baked group is baking out of the Baked Essentials cookbook this week with a recipe from the Cheese chapter. Cheesy Focaccia.Cheesy it was! And quite tasty!I am hoping it freezes well because nobody else here will touch it because it has spinach on it.....they just don't know what is good!!Oh well, it tasted really
A sour cream spice cake with chocolate pudding poured over it....Wow!Yummy!For the recipe and what others did click here.Enjoy!
With the onset of the New Year I really want to stick to one of my resolutions....to eat healthier. But....I love to bake and I adore sweets (my biggest problem!) I thought long and hard about making these muffins and came up with a solution of sorts. Use all healthy ingredients! I substituted quite a lot in this recipe. Instead of butter, I used coconut oil. Wh
This Sunday the Baked group is making Bananas Foster Fritters with Rum Dipping Sauce from the Baked Explorations cookbook. I almost passed this one by because I am not a fan of baked banana anything. The best thing about this recipe is the rum dipping sauce...that was a real winner and I could envision it on pancakes, waffles or french toast. The fritters were good, a nice crispness on
Had a pot of bean soup cooking away on the stove all day today and thought that a nice skillet of cornbread would be good along side of it. I love things cooked in cast iron skillets especially cornbread! It turns out nice and crunchy on the edges and moist on the inside. I like my cornbread on the sweet side, so I add a little brown sugar, honey and regular sugar and it turns out perf
I was really happy to see that the Baked group was slotted to make these lovely Pot de Crème this week because of my love for malt and because I have never made Pot de Crème ! So it was a new and pleasant experience for me. I was amazed at how easy they were to make...hey, no sweat!I absolutely love malt flavor! Chocolate malts are a must have from our local United Dairy Farmer S
Happy New Year!! The ABCers are now baking from the King Arthur Flour site. So many good looking recipes there. I am really excited about all the possibilities! This month Panettone Muffins were chosen. I am embarrassed to admit, being an Italian girl and all, I have never really cared for Panettone. I always thought it was too dry. Of course I have never t
I am about cookied-out from all the Christmas cookie baking so I was very slightly hesitant about making these. But I love shortbread and I have never made it so I forged ahead and I am so glad I did. I halved the recipe, because I didn't really want to have all those buttery treats hanging around the kitchen calling my name. I did not have Fluer de Sel and the stores aroun
This cookie is simple to do but it is an all day affair! This is the first time I have made these, I wanted to do them last year but time got away from me. I want to add more and more Italian cookies to my Christmas lineup. I think this one will be a keeper. I had lots of air bubbles in my layers after they came out of the oven. Not really sure what could have
I have not made any Baked Brownies yet. I love brownies and I have an all time favorite brownie recipe from the Barefoot Contessa. I absolutely love her Outrageous Brownies...they are to die for and it has been my go-to recipe for brownies for many years now. So when I saw that we were baking Spicy Brownies this week I was a little reluctant but very curious about this brow
I was going to pass this one by because I am in a whirlwind of baking Christmas cookies right now, but this recipe is so darn easy and really tasty I just did it anyway. They will be a nice treat for all the people that my husband and I work with.I love that Matt and Renato filled the pages of their Baked cookbooks with nostalgia, that is one of the things that attra
This year the ABC group has been baking from The Weekend Baker by Abigail Dodge. I have enjoyed all the recipes that we have done and will continue to bake from it even though this is our last recipe from this cookbook as a group. Next year we will be baking from the King Arthur Flour site...that should be fun! I love all the recipes that I get from there.
We were suppose to do grits this week but I never have grits in the house so I opted to do a "make-up" recipe. This snack cake was baked in a cast iron skillet and is a nice chocolate treat. The cake was very dense and rich and the frosting was light and fudgy. I may have baked it just a tad too long because I thought the cake was just a bit dry but still very tasty! We lov
I had some leftover pumpkin from the pumpkin tart that I made and thought that it would be good to make some pumpkin cookies to take to work. I found this recipe on the baker chick. The cookie has a nice spicy flavor and is topped with a cinnamon cream cheese frosting. I took it just one step further and added a candied pecan. These would be a good addition
The Baked Sunday Morning challenge this week is from the newer cookbook Baked Elements. This cookie, which is actually much more like a candy bar, was not too difficult to make but very time intensive. From toasting the coconut to making the shortbread crust then patiently waiting for the caramel to get to the right temp, waiting 3 hours for them to cool and set and another 15-20 min
Autumn is here and the holidays right around the corner. There is nothing that shouts out Thanksgiving more than a pumpkin pie. The Avid Bakers Challenge for this month was this Velvety Pumpkin Tart. We are baking from The Weekend Baker by Abby Dodge. The cream cheese made this velvety and creamy but I think there was a bit too much sugar...I found it to be&
I make these cookies this time every year only this year I did a little different twist. I usually use whole almonds, this time I used almond slivers which made the nails looks a bit more realistic. I also did not use the red gel for blood this year...instead I brushed the cookies with cocoa powder to bring out the detail and give it a dirty creepy look. I think they turned
I am making all kinds of baked goods that I never heard of thanks to Baked Explorations, Baked Elements and this Baked Sunday Morning group. I have never heard of a Joe Frogger until I got my Baked Explorations cookbook. I adore molasses cookies and have a dynamite recipe that I make at Christmas time. This cookie has rum in it sooooo I thought that was a good enough r
I am baking for my granddaughters again! This time for Lily....she will be 12 soon and I always send them cookies for their birthday. Lily likes chocolate so I thought she might really like these outrageous chocolate cookies! They are full of chocolate chewy richness and quite scrumptous! You gotta get a glass of milk to accompany these! Happy Birthday Lily
I am super late with this challenge, but I did not want to pass this one by. I had so much baking to do for our annual pig roast that this beautiful loaf had to wait until I had the time to bake it. I am glad I took the time!! This bread is delicious! Soft and slightly sweet. It makes a really nice sandwich bread. Oats are softened in warmed milk and then h
I love pears so I was elated when Baked Sunday Mornings choose this Whiskey Pear Tart for the challenge this week. (I have had it bookmarked in my cookbook since I got it because I thought it looked so good!) Even though I have a rectangular tart pan I decided to use my round one and I used an 11 inch one like they said but sadly, I don't think I ha
Brownie and cookie heaven! Okay, I have to admit, I did not know what a Brookster was when I saw it up on the list of the next Baked challenge. I had to wait until I got my copy of Baked Elements to find out what it was. What the heck is a Brookster? Well it is a brownie-chocolate chip cookie collaboration!! Chocolate chip cookie dough is placed in a brownie shell and ba
This months "Baked" challenge is this lovely Lady Praline Chiffon Cake. Somewhat like an angel food cake but since it is made with oil it has more substance to it. It is very light, moist and delicious. This recipe called for pecan liquor which I could not find anywhere around here so I used Amaretto in it's place. It only called for a tablespoon but I think I would a
Butter, Brown sugar, Toasted Pecans Oats, Caramel and Chocolate Need I say more? Pure yumminess. Check out what the other Baked bakers did here. Good to be back! ?
I am taking a baking and blogging break. Until next time!
I picked up some beautiful blackberries at the local farmers market. I love blackberries...although these were not as sweet as I like, so I decided to bake with them. I am always running out the door in the morning with breakfast in hand and thought that some muffins would be nice to have for the morning rush this coming week. I found a light recipe for blackberry muffins.&n
Berries are bursting with flavor this time of year! All ripe and juicy just waiting for something like this classic fruit tart. The ABCers are at it again! We are baking from the Weekend Baker by Abby Dodge. This choice was a good selection for this time of year...a perfect summertime dessert. The crust is very different and difficult to work with. Flo
Apple Green-Chile Pie with Cheddar Crust and Walnut StreuselWent to a Fiesta yesterday and brought this apple pie that I have been itching to bake for a long time now. I saw in on the one of those shows on one of the cooking channels and thought it sounded really interesting and tasty. I thought the pie was good. The green chili's complimented the apples nicely and th
For some reason nothing reminds me of summer more than a lemon meringue pie. I had this pie crust recipe that I have wanting to try and a bunch of lemons and eggs in the fridge...soooo why not! The pie crust recipe.....good! It was nice a flaky but not my favorite. I didn't use all shortening, I used half shortening and half butter. The next pie crust I try I want to make it
When I saw that Baked Sunday Mornings was making this pie I immediately thought of how I love peanut butter and banana sandwiches and knew that I did not want to pass this one up. I didn't really eat pb and banana sandwiches as a kid, I think my love for them started when I was a little older. I remember making peanut butter, cream cheese, honey and banana sandwiches for my son when he
Happy Mothers Day!!This is my 100th Post!!I wanted to make something nice for Mom and for my niece who is having her 16th birthday in a couple of days. I saw this lovely dessert on Seattle Pastry Girl's blog and I thought it was so beautiful I just had to make it.The crust is a lemon flavored shortbread with a layer of mascarpone cheese and sliced strawberries arranged to resemble a bea
I love scones. When I saw that the ABC challenge for this month was scones I knew that I wanted to make them into cinnamon roll scones. I had seen cinnamon roll scones on pinterest quite awhile ago and just had to give it a shot. So I used the scone recipe from the Weekend Baker by Abby Dodge and looked up the recipe for the Cinnamon Roll Scones on pinterest and found out it was
