Just Baking

The other day, I got a request: “A beer cake, would be nice.” Were my ears deceiving me, beer and cake?  My brain was not making the connection, beer & cake who would have thought it but why not? Don’t you find it strange that wine is top of the list, followed by spirits when […]

This lovely cake is from one of my favorite cookbooks, How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson. She is very reassuring in her description of this cake that the strange main ingredient, zucchini, does indeed make for good cake. I believed her. After all, I am a big fan of […]

For those of you in the US and who have the four seasons, can you believe that we are knee deep into Fall now? Where in the world does the time go? As much as I love all the summertime flavors, with fresh veggies and cool treats, I do love the comforting flavors of Fall. […]

Okay, you got me - So I’m a day late in celebrating World Bread Day which was designated as October 16th, but as any baker will tell you, good bread takes time. Of course, I did end up making a quick bread, but it was the planning that took the most time and set […]

 
I’m a huge fan of Fall. I love the changing colors of the leaves. I love the musky smell of piles of leaves wet on the ground. I love the cooler nights and shorter days. I love using it as an excuse to bake lots of things with pumpkin in them. So today I present […]

My very best friend is moving out of state on Friday. Ami and I have known each other for 13 years… we met during my Freshman year of college and have been great friends ever since. She has been there for me through a lot and has always been one of the constants in my […]

As much as I love my trustworthy chocolate cake recipes, I decided it’s time to try my hands at making chiffon cake last week. But which recipe should I entrust my first chiffon cake experiment? In the end, I decided to go with Espresso Chiffon Cake with Caramel Glaze from Carole Broom’s Essential […]

If you’ve been making as much ice cream as I have this summer then you’ll no doubt have a surplus of egg whites.  It seems that even when I try to use up them up, by making a lemon meringue pie for example, I create more of them.  Why oh why does everything tasty involve […]

My baby started Kindergarten today and over the weekend, I had myself all worked up about it. In my mind, I had imagined every “worst case scenario” and had cried buckets of tears stressing about the “First Day of Kindergarten Event”. I told myself to hold it together this morning…no matter what, I could not […]

I’ve been waiting for an excuse to make this wonderful cake. I’ve had some pistachios left over from a previous baking adventure and had decided that they would be perfect in a pound cake. I’ve made this particular cake before plain and have used pecans in it as well (I love it with pecans, yum) […]