A food blog balancing sweet treats & healthy eats.
When I was at Cub a few weeks ago, I was perusing their extensive extract collection. As one does. I found some strawberry extract, and I was immediately intrigued. Ordinarily, I would say that a fruit extract is a terrible idea, especially for something like strawberry. I think orange and lemon extracts are horrific. But…
I’ve said before that this is more a baking journal than a baking blog, and that means detailing some of the boring bakes. The flops, if you will. In my journey to discover more exciting beer breads, I decided to try a savory one. When I saw pickle beer in the store, I figured it…
I don’t typically retool recipes so quickly, as I’ve got other things on my baking agenda, but the idea for these bars really stuck in my head. I want to submit them for the State Fair, and so I want to get the recipe ready and perfect before I lock them in. So even though…
This past weekend was Mother’s Day, and that of course meant a Mother’s Day brunch! Which of course means a brunch baked good! My mom got to request the treat, of course, and she brought up how Amelia’s Bread in Indianapolis makes croissant cinnamon rolls. I accepted the challenge very gladly. I haven’t had one…
Banana Brown Butter Baby Bundt… say that five times fast! I am pretty good about getting through my weekly bananas – five or six for the week, for before all my runs. But sometimes, the bananas are not on the same schedule as me, and I wind up with one that gets too brown. And…
I’ve said it many times before, but one thing about me is that I am not going to let any ingredient or food go to waste. So when I had a scant 1/2 cup of ricotta left in the fridge, I knew I had to do something with it. And you know what that no-waste…
I’m in my Beer Bread Era, as the kids’ say. I’m experimenting with different kinds of beer in preparation for the State Fair, and this time, I used a triple berry sour. Naturally, I mixed in dried blueberries and white chocolate (sort of like those old Milk Bar cookies). White Chocolate Berry Beer Bread is…
Just a few months ago, I made these Cherry Blossoms, the first time I’d ever made a Hershey Kiss cookie other than a classic Peanut Blossom. And now I’m making these Butterbeer Kiss Cookies! I suppose I could call them Butterbeer Blossoms, but that felt like a sort of unclear title. When I saw these…