Just Baking

If you’re looking for something super chocolatey, these cookies are for you. They take a little bit of work and a ruler, but the end result is definitely quite worth it.
If you think of the chocolate Peak Freans sandwich cookie, these are similar, though not exactly the same. The cookies are dark with an intense […]

I’m a writer for the Well Fed Network’s site dedicated to grilling and BBQ: GetYourGrillOn.net.   This is a cross over article doing some baking on my outdoor grill: The Big Green Egg.  For those not familiar with a Big Green Egg, it is a ceramic grill.  It is a very versatile piece of equipment […]

Are you done with your Christmas cookies yet? I hope your answer is no. Because I’m not either. Although I have baked some cookies earlier to send to a special friend, and test baked a few batches of various recipes to see if they were good, I haven’t really made any progress on the […]

I’d actually call these more of a butter cookie, than a sugar cookie. Of course, that’s probably because I didn’t roll them in sugar, as the recipe states. Despite the fact that I cheated and made my own change to the topping, the cookies are fantastic! I’m already a sucker for anything with citrus in […]

The US Postal Service is not as busy as it used to be.  With emails, UPS, DHL, and FedEx, the only items left in my mailbox these days are bills and junk mail.  I can even view my bills online.  It looks like I won’t be needing my mailbox anymore.  Or maybe I do.
My neighborhood typically […]

I love traditions. My husband cracks up at me because if we do something once, and enjoy it, then I make it a tradition to do that same thing every year! It seems like this time of year we have my made up traditions coming out of the woodwork. One tradition that got its start […]

The Christmas Pearl is a Christmas book with which to get you into the Holiday Spirit, complete with many family heirloom recipes, many of which the titles simply pique your curiosity. Among my most interested, were the recipe called Sands. A simple recipe (as most were, when a wooden spoon and your hands were the […]

The holiday season would not be complete without sugar cookies on the dessert menu. They’re one of the most versatile cookies out there - they can be shaped into anything you desire or simply rolled in sugar or decorated with icing.
The sugar cookie recipe I used is from BHG and I liked it because there […]

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 […]

You would think that , there is nothing simpler than THE original fruit, not quiet. “Now pay attention here comes ”the scientific bit””:
Apples are of the Rose family, they store well and still retain taste and nutritional values, contain vitamin C, no cholesterol & fibre, you get about 2 in a pound, average 110 calories. Supermarkets have […]