Cranberry Oat Spice Cake with Coconut, Chocolate, and Pecans
I try to keep a well stocked pantry. I never want to be without ingredients like vanilla, spices, chocolate chips, oats, dry fruit, and many other items I deem essential to my happiness. My well stocked, and organized, pantry has made many a recipe on this site possible. Let’s face it, I am a lazy person and if I can avoid an extra trip to the grocery store I will. One consequence of a well stocked pantry is something I call the...
White Chocolate, Cranberry, Pecan, and Sweet Potato Cookies
My kitchen is a very happy place right now. After summer, fall is my favorite season for cooking. Autumn vegetables, fruits, and spices are among my favorite things to cook with. The warm flavors speak of home and comfort to me. Because I love these flavors I tend to overbuy fresh fall produce when it hits the stores. What can I say – I’m greedy! In this case I had too many sweet potatoes. What I came up with is all...
Cranberry Chipotle Glazed Ham
**UPDATE** The winner of the Microplane was #43 (as chosen by Random.org). Congratulations to Amanda from The Two Boos Who Eat! We have ham today, but first … how about a giveaway? Because it is the Holidays, and because I appreciate all my readers more than I can express, I am giving away one of my FAVORITE kitchen tools! A Classic Series Microplane! This handy tool is great for zesting, grating, and finely shaving all...
Fruit Cake
Wait! Before you hit the back button just hear me out. I know fruit cake gets a bad rap, and most of the time it is well deserved. Be it the candied citron, the fluorescent cherries, or insipidly sweet cake, most fruit cake is in fact very bad. Terrible even. I’m still asking you to hear me out, because I have created a recipe for fruit cake that is more than edible, it is actually good! My husband and I hate fruit cake,...
Something I Did a While Ago …
The Gallery has been updated with items in the Spring 2008, Fall 2008, and Cake Decorating sections. Like this cake, that I did for a family who was celebrating the adoption of their granddaughter. It was a special day and I was so pleased to be a small part of it! So, if you interested in seeing what I have been up to, please take a peek! A few months ago I did a video about the horror that is Sandra Lee’s Cherry Pie. I am...
