Just Baking

Despite the many baking failures I had over the past, I am extremely blessed in the biscotti department. In fact I find my favorite biscotti recipe the first time I attempted it. Although I blogged about these biscottis a couple of times in the past, I failed to include the recipe. Firstly because I am […]

I’ve no doubt about the fact that there are millions of oatmeal cookie recipes out there. I have one more to add and have to say that this one is pretty tasty and who doesn’t love an oatmeal cookie? They come from the Crisco website and I’ve had this recipe so long, it isn’t even […]

Where are you autumn?
We haven’t heard from you in weeks. You are supposed to be here. The calendar says October, but the warm sun on my shoulders says spring. I look outside my window and even with orange trees and crunchy leaves on the street, nothing says you’re near. I see pumpkins and witches dressing […]

Are any of you superstitious? Do you have certain socks you have to wear when you are watching or playing a sport or you are convinced that your team won’t win? When you spill salt, do you toss it over your left shoulder to ward off evil things from happening to you? Do you keep […]

Just in time for Halloween we have a video from Epicurious, a source for videos we’ve visited once before, that features a very simple and easy spiderweb cookie you can make with your children.

I tried finding videos on decorating ideas for Halloween cupcakes and cakes but unfortunately there is a definite lack of quality videos […]

Following the lead of the ginger-spiked chocolate chip cookie recipe I created for my birthday, I snuck some crystalized ginger into a Molasses Cookie recipe I was trialing out.  The recipe was amazingly vegan (dairy-free, egg-free) and oddly enough, didn’t call for any ginger.  Knowing how well ginger goes with molasses, I thought this would be the […]

I am a loyal reader of King Arthur Flour’s The Baking Sheet newsletter. In the summer edition, one of the recipes that grabbed my attention was for this chocolate-caramel cookie. I am actually not a huge fan of caramel, but Quinn definitely is. Always aiming to please, I added it to the […]

Have you ever had a recipe that you’ve always wanted to make but never got around to? I’m sure most of you can empathize with my sentiment; having a recipe that wouldn’t (or couldn’t) go away because it was stuck in the recesses of your brain waiting to become real. For me, the […]

Feeling for all the world as if I had just swallowed a ton of bricks, the dread of leaving for school grew only more powerful as the hours passed, my days in a comfortable home numbered and quickly slipping away. There wasn’t a thing I could say to express my jumbled emotions, no matter […]

Today’s video lesson comes to us from Dyann at Dyann Bakes, a vlog dedicated to baking tips. Dyann’s site gives the recipe for both doughs, which are for shortbread cookies. Making checkerboards (as well as pinwheels, cookie wheels, or marbled cookies) is a cool way to take your cookie presentation to the next […]