Just Baking

My two sons love these cookies because they love peanut butter, but also because the boys get to help make them.  The recipe is super easy and contains no gluten because there’s no flour in the recipe.  Easy to make and easy clean up.  The only equipment you need is a bowl, cookie sheet, cooling […]

I tend to be one of the first people I know to try new products. Yes…I am a complete sucker for a new idea. I will try something new before the buzz about it hits the streets and the reviews are out on whether the product is great or a bomb. It should come to […]

Eons ago when my sister and I were but wee tots and my parents still exercised the authority to restrict my intake of sweets, I remember the harshest restrictions being placed on soda. Occasional candies and chocolates were okay, but soda? Only once a year, on New Year’s Eve were my sister and I allowed […]

It’s a fact of life that relationships come and go. Some relationships are meant to last forever. Others…not so much.
Prior to meeting and marrying my wonderful gem of a husband, I had a few relationships that I imagined at the time would last forever. As time went by it became obvious that forever was a […]

Type 2 Diabetes runs rampant in my genes, so I thought I would try a recipe I found on Diana’s Desserts website and review it for my mother (who has Type 2 Diabetes). While my mother is not one to bake from scratch, this is something I could make for her when she comes up […]

Last week, I got yet another bread book, called “Bread: A Baker’s Book of Techniques and Recipes”, by Jeffrey Hamelman. I’d heard this was about the best book out there. I really like the “Bread Baker’s Apprentice” by Peter Reinhart, but Bread has some great information, too.
I’ve been trying to get bigger holes in the […]

I’ve admitted that I’m not a baker, but every dog has its day.  This recipe was the very first I’d ever entered in a dessert category of a large barbeque contest.  Lightning definately struck because out of 78 teams, my creation was one of two ‘perfect’ scores that day.  Since my score from the tie […]

If you ever want to bake a cake or other dessert in the shape of a heart but don’t have a heart pan, you can always use a round pan and a square pan.  The length of the square pan should be the same as the diameter of the round pan.  Once everything is baked, divide […]

Ever since I saw this post on Coconut and Lime, I’ve been hankering to give these “Mexican Hot Chocolate Cookies” a whirl.  I love a chocolate snap, and a chocolate snap with a SNAP is extra special.  I’ve eaten versions of this in both cookie and brownie form, but had yet to try my own […]

So, for Valentines Day, I had planned on making a saucy dessert, made scarlet with raspberries and strawberries, perhaps something with cream or jelly, or a tart curd of some sort. Perhaps a simple Creme au Coeur. However, my desire for something savoury got in the way of all so I made a distinctly unpudding-like […]