Primal Pumpkin Cookies
Moist cakey pumpkin cookies studded with chocolate chips; you'd never know these are egg-free and grain-free!
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Christmas 2014
My parents came to spend the day with us on Christmas Eve and take me grocery shopping for the holiday meals. I was pretty exhausted from a night of very little sleep between the boys’…
Cake for the Bitty Bear
A short account of Theodore's first birthday party, complete with a teddy bear cake.
All-Hours Flax Cookies
Chewy grain-free cookies with just four ingredients that could easily be adapted for breakfast, dessert, or anytime in between!
Bananagrahams
Banana graham crackers, homemade marshmallows, and dark chocolate = an equation for everything from oatmeal to bread pudding!
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Wow, has this ever been a busy holiday season! I have been cranking out my handmade Christmas cards for orders since before Thanksgiving, and have probably produced close to 150 in that time—not bad for…
Thanksgiving Recap 2011
A recounting of our 2011 Thanksgiving dinner, and a few of the best recipes from it.
Munchies
Some perfect take-along munchies for traveling: sourdough cheese crackers and decorated sugar cookies.
Breaking Ground
A work party at the brand new community garden near my parents' house, salmon with Cara Cara orange sauce, and chocolate whoopie pies with Swiss meringue butercream.
Minty Meltaways
Delicate little cookies with a tender crumb, aromatic minty flavor and festive green color, these mint meltaways can be eaten as is, or sandwiched with ganache for a more decadent holiday treat.
Smart Cookies
A review of the ThinkFood cookbook, and my version of smart cookies: gluten-free cookies made with almond meal, buckwheat, forbidden rice flour and blackberry compote.
Chalkboards and Royalty
The September 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was decorated sugar cookies pertaining to the month of September. I made chalkboard cookies to commemorate my son's first day of preschool.
Yogurt Chocolate Chip Cookies
Next time you're out of eggs and feel like baking, whip up a batch of these soft chocolate chip cookies. You can even snack on the dough with no worries!
Tea-ramisu
The February 2010 Daring Baker's challenge featured that coffee-lover's dream, tiramisu, with homemade ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese. My version substituted vanilla and chai teas for the coffee and Marsala wine, since we don't drink either.
Nanaimo Bars
The January 2010 Daring Bakers challenge featured nanaimo bars, an iconic Canadian bar cookie that combines graham cracker crumbs, chocolate, coconut, almonds, and frosting. Very nearly too sweet, even for me, but still oddly addictive.
Filling in the Gaps
This is a summary post overviewing the meals and baked goods I made over the holidays, concluding with the highlight of my father making ebelskivers.
Chocolate Bellyflop
The October 2009 Daring Bakers challenge featured that delicate and refined French confection, the macaron. My ganache-filled chocolate macarons in no way resembled the classic cookie, but they still tasted great.
Stay-Puft
The July 2009 Daring Bakers challenge featured Milan cookies and mallomars with fresh marshmallow. I made the latter, and folded the extra marshmallow into homemade rocky road ice cream.
Leftover Night, Volume II: Desserts
A compilation of several chocolate desserts: Alton Brown's The Chewy (Chocolate Chip Cookie), Dorie Greenspan's chipster-topped brownies, and millionaire's shortbread with chocolate and gooey dulce de leche.