Just Baking

It may be a little late to include these in your 1st or 2nd night seder, but for a nice mid-week kosher-for-Passover treat, these Praline Cookies are quick and easy to throw together in order to fill a  cookie Jones in this time of baked-good deprivation.  Oh, the sufferin’….
I found this recipe a few months […]

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 […]

 It’s time that I own an electric stand mixer. All the cool kids (who bake) have them and shoot, I bake, and people tell me I’m cool. So it only follows that I should own a Kitchen Aid. Right?
The thing is, I seem to have gotten by fairly well without one for the past 18 […]

I think I might officially be old. To begin with, I turned 36 on Monday. Then, while I was standing in the sold-out venue of a Shins concert 2 days later, the following thoughts ran through my head: “Man, it’s after 10pm and they just started playing; it’s way past my bedtime”, and “What could […]

Last week I told you about the Pumpkin Upside Down Cake with Cranberry Pecan Topping that I was auditioning for a role on the Thanksgiving table.  It was a crowd pleaser, to be sure.  Ultimately, however, I chose to go with a simpler, more understated Ginger Cake with Warm Caramel Sauce, with the thought that […]

I love my neighborhood grocery store.  Billed “The Friendliest Store in Town” (this is actually printed on their paper bags), it is a self-prescribed yet well-deserved distinction.  This is a store where the clerks will open up ANY product in the store for you to taste, should you have any hesitation about buying it.  You […]