I love all cupcakes. I don’t discriminate. I’m an equal opportunity dessertist. Vanilla-flecked sponge cake, dense flourless cake, fluffy chocolate…I’m not kicking any of those off my plate. But my little cupcake side business tells a different story – when I go back over my order history, one bar on the graph soars above the… [click for recipe and more]
It’s spring today! So what if there’s still snow in the forecast for next week? So what if the term “polar vortex” has found itself a comfortable place in the common vernacular? It’s spring. And that means we can take whatever last gasp winter wants to throw our way. Bring it. We’ve had a lot… [click for recipe and more]
Every winter I overbuy cranberries. They’re just so seasonal, so tempting…so destined to get smushed below everything else in my fruit drawer when I forget about them, like I always do. Thanksgiving passes with its traditional cranberry sauce, Christmas passes with its glut of homemade cran-flavored gifts, and then what use do I have for… [click for recipe and more]
I debated whether to share these for Valentine’s Day. I debate with myself a lot. I blame it on too many years in DC and extremely contrarian genes. Generally, on any given day, I make at least three relatively easy decisions much more difficult by creating a point/counterpoint list in my head and then weighing… [click for recipe and more]
I used to work at a summer camp with this guy who made the most incredible cookies, and snickerdoodles were his specialty. He’d mix them up in the gigantic industrial mixer in the camp kitchen after the campers went to bed, and on the nights word got out that Don was making cookies, the lodge… [click for recipe and more]