Just Baking

Ok, no more alliteration!
Brioche is something I’d heard of before, seen on TV, but I’d never had it let along made it. I knew what was in it; I have recipes in about 4 different books for it, and a Google search brings back “about 4,130″ results. It’s not hard to find how […]

The absolute best pound cake ever! While growing up, there was always a homemade cake or plate of cookies sitting on our kitchen counter. Even after we moved out of the house, you could always count on a sweet treat when you unexpectedly dropped by. One of my favorite dessert recipes is courtesy of my […]

A few days prior to Thanksgiving, I was tasked this week with baking something that Quinn’s parents could take with them to St. Louis for a family gathering. I started thinking about what kind of baked good would be most likely to survive an airplane ride, and decided that biscotti would be just the […]

The other day I was catching up on a few of the regular food blogs I read, Susan’s Farmgirl Fare being one of them. Truth be told, I don’t get to visit as many as I’d like to regularly, but the lure of the impossibly cute animals on Susan’s farm is nearly too much to […]

It’s that time of year when many of us find ourselves thinking about how to create festive dishes for our holiday gatherings. For bread bakers, creative shaping is one way to add that extra flair that can elevate a loaf from the everyday to the celebration-worthy.
This rosette looks complicated to make, but in fact it […]

Every year around this time, the magazine rack is packed with holiday cookie recipes and cookie contest winners. I always wonder what it takes to win one of these contests so after flipping through the pages of the November issue of Chatelaine, I decided to make one of their award winning treats to see […]