Top 10 recipes: year 1.
Homemade chocolate pudding. Perfect roasted potatoes. The best granola. Orange chocolate-chip muffins. Here’s my list of Top 10 Recipes from the past year.
Category: Baking
Lighter classic cheesecake.
Recently, my editor for the fitness and weight-loss website SparkPeople.com challenged me with a rather difficult assignment: Develop a feature story about sensible alternatives for desserts and sweet snacks. Now, this particular subject was hard to write …
Raspberry-almond bars.
These homemade raspberry-almond bars were so good I had to hide one in order to take a photo for the blog. This dessert is how I like it: not too rich or sweet.
Of bread and family.
I took a road trip this week and drove my mom and grandma from Indianapolis to visit my brother’s new Chicago bakery. Check it out!
Simple chocolate-red wine cake.
In my estimation, this wine-infused chocolate cake is about as perfect as a dessert can be: deeply flavored, not too sweet, moist, very simple to make. Perfect, right? I spotted a photo of this chocolate-red wine …
Really good Irish soda bread.
With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, you’ll want to make this easy and authentic Irish soda bread studded with caraway and raisins.
Better than store-bought: focaccia.
As far as bread goes, focaccia is one of the easier varieties for a home cook to tackle, and this recipe makes it a snap.
Buttery Special K cookies.
These simple, buttery-sweet cookies can be made with any cereal flakes, like Special K.
Sweet little blueberry trifles.
Weird, I know, but when I was sniffing around the interwebs looking for inspiration for a Valentine’s Day dessert, I wasn’t thinking chocolate. I wanted something a little different, something fruit-based. I spotted a photo of …
