Sweet Potato Pecan Coconut Cake
I love single layer cakes. They have a rustic appeal that I find immensely comforting. Most single layer cakes are charmingly homemade in appearance, requiring no special skills to decorate them. No torting layers, no stacking, no praying you avoid the dreaded buttercream belly around the side of the cake. If you decorate cakes you know about buttercream bellies. No, a single layer cake is reassuringly easy to make, and during...
Pumpkin Banana Cranberry Chocolate Chip Blondies
Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching. This year I have been thinking about pumpkin desserts that are not your standard pie or bread. Don’t get me wrong, those desserts are all wonderful and I will be having at least one of them on our holiday table, but this year I wanted to shake things up. I am helping my mom with her dinner on Thanksgiving Day, and then the next day I will be going out to my in-laws for a second Thanksgiving...
Spiced Brown Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies
I am having a hard time finding my words today. I am not sure why, but lately I find myself fighting writers block. It happens to everyone. I know I am not alone, but as I sit here struggling to be compelling I find myself feeling kind of isolated. Cone of Shame comes to mind. Now, before you think I am crying, “Oh, poor pitiful me,” realize that I could have just as easily not posted anything today and saved you all...
Salted Caramel Apple Pound Cake (And a Giveaway!)
When life gives you left-over Salted Caramel Sauce, I say make pound cake! With fall teasing us in the Dallas area, the temperatures are fluctuating between 100 and 80, I find myself feeling very domestic. The cooler weather puts me in the mood to putter around the house organizing books, clearing out closets, and whipping up cozy treats in the kitchen. Usually during this time of year I would be baking fall fruit pies, as the...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Double Layer Crisp Rice Treats
I know, the title is a mouthful, but then again so are these bars! While perusing the local specialty food market here in town I saw a giant bin of assorted ‘gourmet’ crisp rice treat. Now, what you may not know about me is I am a complete sucker for any kind of crisp rice treat. I rarely make them because around me they are dangerous. I may have, and I can neither confirm nor deny this, eaten an entire pan all by...
Triple Chip Chocolate Swirled Blondies
Oh, well hello there! It’s been a while! Sorry for my extended absence, but if you follow me on Twitter you already know that I have spent the last month working furiously on my second cookbook. I am happy to report it is all done, all 30 pictures included, and if all goes as my publisher plans it will be seeing store shelves sometime next May! Also, my first book, Everything Pie, should be available in a book store near...
