Just Baking

Carolyn Gurtz, a homemaker from Gaithersburg, MD took the top prize in the 43rd Pillsubry Bake-Off in Dallas, TX on April 14.  Her Double-Delight Peanut Butter Cookies use Pillsbury cookie dough, JIF peanut butter, Fisher peanuts, and both Domino and C&H sugar.
The grand prize is $1 million.  Other winning recipes included Mascarpone-Filled Cranberry-Walnut Rolls (Breakfast & Brunches category), Salmon […]

This would probably have been a better recipe to share before Easter, since now you can’t possibly make these for breakfast on Easter morning, as we did. However, since it’s an awfully nice recipe, I would say you shouldn’t wait for next Easter to make it. Tomorrow would be fine. 
Every year for about fifteen years now, I’ve […]

 
The bucket, at last, is full again.  For the past four days my sons have been pointing to a kitchen cabinet and saying, in a tone reminiscent of Oliver asking for more, “Mommy, the bucket’s empty.”  Horrors.
The bucket, you see, is the large, deep rectangular storage container in which we keep the cookies.  I love […]

Did you ever find a recipe that you fell so in love with at first sight that you just had to make it, and then when it didn’t work out, you were determined to make it work?  I had this happen a couple of weeks ago.  I came across a recipe for Jam Crumb Cake […]