June 20, 2009 · Filed under cobblers and pies, tips and tricks · Tagged cherry, dessert, food, fruit, holiday, options, recipe, special shape, updated
Once again, it has been awhile since I have baked anything. Since I will be starting grad school at the end of August, you might as well get used to it. *sigh*
But I was commissioned to bake dessert for tomorrow’s Father’s Day celebration, so I finally had a chance to try something I have been wanting to do for a couple of weeks: a cherry pie. Read the rest of this entry »
January 19, 2009 · Filed under cobblers and pies, spiced stuff · Tagged apple, bread, cinnamon, dessert, easy, food, fruit, holiday
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
I stumbled across this recipe for something called an “apple brown betty” recently and, per my addiction to all autumn-oriented baked goods, had to make it.
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December 31, 2008 · Filed under bread · Tagged cinnamon, dessert, difficult, food, fruit, holiday, lemon, liquor, nutmeg, nuts, options, recipe, special shape, sugar
My younger brother came to visit right before Christmas. He seems to have a fear of failure, plus a lack of confidence in his own abilities. So the last couple of times he’s come to visit, I made him make bread with me – one of the hardest, and therefore most satisfying, things a person can do in baking.
This year, since it was so close to Christmas, we made Stollen. Read the rest of this entry »