Just Baking

Take one look at the pictures of the ornately decorated cookies and cakes in Confetti Cakes by Elisa Strauss (with Christie Matheson), and you would expect them to take some work to complete. After I read over the book’s recipe for “Fruit Cookies,” I knew I had to be prepared for a good few hours of baking and decorating. So, I set aside Saturday to tackle the fruit cookies, hopefully, in the end, to produce a finished product as decieving as Ms. Strauss’s.

I began sometime in the afternoon, starting out by gathering the various ingredients needed for the sugar cookie recipe Ms. Strauss provides.

Kashi, the purveyor of the healthiest-sounding foods on the planet, have made their mark on the breakfast table. But who knew they would hold up after dinner, too? My friend found their online collection of recipes and has been baking sinless sweets for weeks now. I’m sorry I didn’t discover it sooner–I […]