Woohoo! We are finally back to doing the Daring Bakers challenges. I have to admit, I’ve missed it. It’s so easy to get stuck in a rut in the dessert […]
Nazook
Other Baking
Balsamic Strawberries
Back in April, Dana and I spent 2 weeks in Barcelona for our honeymoon. The day we booked our flight, what do you think we did? Book a hotel? Nope. […]
Doughnuts!
The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for her recipes including […]
Drunken Strawberry Butter
And I’m back. Back in the kitchen. Back to the real world. Back to a life. And it’s wonderful! Since the bar is over and our kitchen is (mostly) unpacked […]
Chocolate Pavlovas
I’m gonna have to keep this one short. Moving, not so great for the baking and blog posting. The June 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Dawn of Doable […]
Piece Montee
Oops… we missed this month’s Daring Bakers deadline. It’s been a busy few weeks. Steve already mentioned we were preparing our apartment for the family coming in for law convocation […]
Steamed British Pudding
It’s that time again – Daring Bakers! The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, […]
Tiramisu
Another Daring Bakers challenge! Let’s get the obligatory blog-checking lines out of the way first: The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba […]
from the Kitchen of Dana and Steve
This Christmas, my amazing cousin, Kim, bought me this adorable stamp from Sweet Papery. And now, that I’ve had a chance to use it – I get to share it […]
Scones!
I’ve been making a lot of scones recently. And I do mean a lot. It’s actually starting to become somewhat of a problem. There were a couple days in a […]
Nanaimo Bars
Another Daring Bakers challenge! We missed last month – so sad. But we made up for it this month with these yummy Nanaimo Bars! The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge […]
Chocolate Creme Brulee
For Christmas this year, Steve and I gave his mother (my future mother-in-law) a cookbook we made of some of our favorite recipes. Some old, some new, but all things […]
Dutch Baby… Babies?
My family has been going to the Original Pancake House since I was small. For those of you who know the chain, one of their specialities is the Dutch Baby […]
Holy Cannoli!
Introducing our first challenge as Daring Bakers! The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian […]
How I spent my Friday…
Basically I spent my entire Friday baking for a halloween wedding. Don’t get ahead of yourself… I was NOT paid – so no sending in pictures to cakewrecks! And I […]
Who’s a happy puppy?
Yuki is! He is so spoiled, but to spoil him even more I baked home made peanut butter dog treats for him this weekend. Recipe was adapted from Brown Eyed […]
Pumpkin pops
I made some pumpkin cake pops for fun. Insides consist of dark chocolate cake, Bailey’s (of course!) and cream cheese frosting. I decorated them with marzipan stems and leaves. Apparently […]
Quick Sunday breakfast
I saw this recipe for mini chocolate croissants from Joy the Baker a while ago and have been waiting for a time to make them. This weekend seemed like the […]
More recent baking
First, raspberry pistachio buckles. These were super easy to make as the dough is made almost completely in a food processor. We served them with some delicious vanilla ice cream […]
A little history
Just a few pictures from past baking projects. About 75 almond-raspberry cupcakes for a bridal shower (before packaging): Mini black bottom and pre-frosted almond raspberry cupcakes for a graduation party:Chambord, […]