This is one of those vintage recipes from forever ago that has stood the test of time. I remembered my mother-in-law posting a recipe for it on Facebook a few months back, and saying they used to make this all the time and she loved it, so when I was planning her birthday dinner this month,… Continue reading Pineapple Sunshine Cake
Almost once a week, I either host or attend a “tea party” with my mom, my sister, my great-nanny, my kids, and occasionally other random guests. By “tea party,” I mean we brew a couple pots of English breakfast tea, serve some kind of pastry dish, like cookies or scones or butterhorns or even crumpets,… Continue reading Easy Cherry Danish
I’ve been making blueberry buckle for years. It was one of the very first recipes I ever made by myself when I started learning how to bake. If you’ve never had blueberry buckle, it’s really just a single layer blueberry cake topped with a streusel crunch topping. It’s a lot like a big blueberry muffin,… Continue reading Blueberry Buckle
My 35 year old self was recently lured onto SnapChat by my girlfriends who also use it, despite the fact that they are not, in fact, in middle school (although my “Stories” feed from them is full of silliness.) Trying to navigate a new social media outlet gets harder and harder the older I get.… Continue reading Easy Sopapilla Cheesecake
My mother-in-law tells me that her mother, my husband’s grandmother, made an amazing kuchen. Sometimes she made it with apples, sometimes with peaches, you could really use any kind of fruit that was in season. She passed away before I got to meet her, but I hear she was an amazing baker and I would… Continue reading Cinnamon Peach Kuchen
I’ve made lemon sticky buns before, but had yet to try the lemon monkey bread. Maybe because I’m such a sucker for the traditionalism of cinnamon monkey bread with it’s sticky caramel cinnamon sauce. I guess I was in denial that there was other monkey bread out there. This lemon monkey bread is wonderful. Buttery,… Continue reading Easy Lemon Monkey Bread
This weekend, I received the following email from reader Stephanie: I love your blog. I’ve made your copycat Starbucks Michigan Cherry Oat bars. Yummy! I didn’t find it on your blog– but, can you figure out the Starbucks S’Mores bars– my new guilty pleasure? Please? I love emails like this. Also, if you haven’t tried… Continue reading Starbucks S’mores Bars
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