Happy Labor Day Weekend!
And to celebrate the upcoming holiday, I did something really out of character and baked.

This fudgy multi-textured bar cookie is adapted from Greg Patent’s Baking in…

Until this week, I’d never even heard of a cornmeal biscuit, but I saw a recipe in a magazine and had to give it a try.  It seemed like the perfect bread to go with a dinner of barbecued chicken.

What’s…

Congratulations to Lori H. who won the Toll House giveaway!
Lori’s name was drawn randomly in the comment section where I asked readers to pick a recipe off the Toll House site that would be fun to…

Last week I made some mint chocolate ice cream. It went over so well that I decided to pull out the ice cream maker and dust off another old recipe. When it comes to choosing ice cream recipes, I’m…

Because of its high fork rating on Epicurious and because I lurrrrrrrrve chocolate cake, I was really looking forward to trying the Chocolate Mayonnaise cake from the April issue of Bon Appetit. Normally…

The lazy days of summer are over, and Fuzz is back in school. We’re settling into a new routine of homework, after school activities, quick play dates and waking up early. I think I took not having…

Last year I had the opportunity to go to Minnesota. What I didn’t know before booking my trip was that the Minnesota State Fair was going on, so when I got home I was kind of bummed to find I’d…

Yeas ago I clipped some cupcake recipes from Chocolatier Magazine. Yesterday I was going through stuff and found this one, which was fortunate since I’d been craving coconut cupcakes all week and…

This week Nestle sent us samples of their new Toll House Mini Toppers – tiny chocolate and white chocolate morsels made especially for sprinkling. They would have been perfect on my Grasshopper Cupcakes,…

It must have something to do with “back-to-school”, but for some reason I’m obsessed with cupcakes. I’ll post an actual cookie recipe soon, but here’s a recipe for the banana cupcakes…