Tummy Treasure

With all the crazy snow that’s been flying outside, baking has been a necessity to take the nip out of the air.  I was flipping through some of my old Christmas Cookie magazines when this peanut butter cookie caught my eye.  Peanut butter is one of those things I really have to be in [...]

I feel like a bad food blogger.   Here it is, just ten days out from Christmas, and I feel like I should be sharing recipe after recipe for Christmas cookies and candies.  Except that I’ve barely made any myself.  Part of it is that I guess we’ve been unexpectedly more busy than planned.  [...]

This was the first real loaf of bread that I ever mastered.  I found it in a book by Beth Hensperger called Bread Made Easy, and she said right in the introduction that this egg based bread was practically foolproof.  Since I wanted to learn to make bread, this was going to be my [...]

One of the things that I love about Easter time is the Easter candy.  My favorite all-time treat is a Cadbury Creme Egg.  I just love them, milk chocolate, gooey uber-sweet center, all wrapped up in a neat little package.  Every year at Easter time I treat myself to just a few of these [...]

Try this one. Sorry I forgot to snap a picture, but everyone who’s had it has enjoyed it completely. I would have never thought of peanut brittle as a great gift- but apparently it works great because I have to keep buying peanuts to make more! You can certainly use any kind of nut [...]

This last Saturday at the cookie party I went to there was a cookie disaster. One of the ladies had found a recipe in her local paper for a chocolate covered cherry cookie. It had actually won a contest and was the featured recipe for the contest. They looked really pretty in the picture, [...]

This is a cookie that is slightly different, depending how you look at it. I was looking through my cookie magazines, and there was one that caught my eye that was just a touch different. It used fennel in it. At first I discarded the notion, but then I came back to it. We’ve [...]

I tried a new recipe for toffee the other day. I think. The problem came when I was looking for a toffee recipe and I found this one in my Mastercook program in my candy cookbook. I thought I’d only put tried and trues in there- yet here was a recipe that I was [...]

Just when you think you’ve made all the errors you possibly can this baking season…another one leaps out from the oven.

Yesterday I spent some time testing some new cookies. One of my challenges this year is to take the ingredients I have and use existing pantry ingredients only in my baking and candy-making. [...]

You would think that the candy failure would have taught me a lesson. Yet here I was trying to do too much at once, and then Andy mentioned gingersnaps. I had forgotten to add them to my list of cookies to make, and once he mentioned them, I had to make them. I dug [...]

There’s nothing more disappointing to me. I tried a new recipe this morning for a peanut butter candy. The recipe was from a really reliable source, so I went ahead with it, expecting a peanut butter treasure. Instead, about 40 degrees before it was even where it was supposed to be, I began smelling [...]

As I was surveying my sprinkle collection the other day, my eye caught a small package of sucker sticks. I was excited! I didn’t realize I had any of those left, and the wheels started turning. It wasn’t long before I pulled out my sucker molds, fitted them with sticks, and started a candy-making [...]