Ingredients 4 C flour 1 Tbs salt 1 Tbs baking powder 2 tsp baking soda 1 C shortening, cold, cut into ½" pieces 1½ cups buttermilk, plus additional for brushing Directions Preheat the oven to 375° F. Si [...]
Mmmm. Just the right texture. I love these cookies! They are adapted from an old recipe in a handwritten file of recipe cards from various people who gave me recipes 25 years ago on my wedding day. I don't know [...]
If you listened to last week's podcast you maybe heard tell of a certain cake. This is that cake. It's a chocolate fudge cake layer, topped with a chocolate chip cookie dough layer, topped with a bittersweet chocolate layer, toppe [...]
Cookies Ingredients 1/2 teaspoon salt 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup butter 1 1/2 cups white sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 cups peanut butter chips Peanut [...]
For our good friend Beth’s birthday last week, Stacey and I made this cake thanks to a tip from the birthday cake fairy (Jen) who let us know what Beth’s ideal cake might look like. We took some liberties; including the philos [...]
Your guests will go nuts for the peanut butter in this decadent chocolate cake dessert! Cooking Time 120 minutes Ingredients (serves 10) 200g butter, softened 1 cup raw caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 180g dar [...]
I adore my slow cooker. I believe it is a busy woman's BAF (best appliance friend). Not only can it be thrown right into the dishwasher when you're done (bonus!) but it can make just about anything you're in the mood for. It c [...]
My niece came up with these one Friday night, as she sat on my kitchen counter and chatted about how much better the cookie dough itself is than the finished cookies. We discussed the delicious properties of chocolate and peanut butter, t [...]
"Cake Mix Cookies" by Camilla V. Saulsbury is the type of baking book that if you wanted to bake with kids or you're a novice baker and want to make simple things without a lot of fuss, there are a lot of recipes in here tha [...]
April 30 is National Oatmeal Cookie Day. (What an awesome country we have in that it has foodie "holidays"!) So, in my continuing quest for a perfect oatmeal cookie recipe, I turned to Alice Medrich's latest cookbook, Chewy [...]
Long ago when I was a little girl, and I mean long ago, I would make peanut butter cookies for my friends. The recipe I used was from the Betty Crocker Cookbook that my Aunt Ethel gave me. I still have the cook book but it has definitely [...]
The first time I tasted these cookies at a neighborhood picnic, I was hooked. I tracked down the person who brought them and begged for the recipe. I think I've made them, oh, about a zillion times since. If you like peanut butt [...]
I call this a “Quick Cake,” not because it is quick in the oven but because it is quick to mix together, and bakes up like a quick bread, like banana bread or zucchini bread. I have been searching for a good buttermilk chocol [...]
I call this a “Quick Cake,” not because it is quick in the oven but because it is quick to mix together, and bakes up like a quick bread, like banana bread or zucchini bread. I have been searching for a good buttermilk c [...]