Still looking for something to make for Dad? Here are some sweet but not too fancy treats for our favorite guys: Stout Cupcakes Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies Chocolate Chip Cookes, with or without Quinoa Cakies Peanut Butter Pizza Peanut Butter Pie
How To Freeze Leftover Frosting
For some reason, it took me far to long to realize that you can freeze your leftover frosting. I would bake cakes and cupcakes and I would find myself frustrated with having a dab of this kind of frosting or a bit of that kind of frosting leftover. I first read about freezing your leftover frosting from Rose Levy Beranbaum … Read More
Peanut Butter Pizza
Homemade peanut butter cookie made on a pizza pan topped with milk chocolate chips. Perfect treat for chocolate peanut butter lovers! I don’t know when my family first started making peanut butter pizza. This dish became my signature dessert when I was in grade school. I would take it to every family gathering and it would always be demolished. It … Read More
How to use straws for cake support (instead of dowel rods)
Using straws instead of dowel rods as supports for your cake is a quick, easy, and cheap way to make your cake strong. That Rose Levy Beranbaum is one smart lady. This is another tip that I learned from her book The Cake Bible and it has saved my butt like a million times. Use straws instead of dowel rods … Read More
Interesting Things
Oh man, I just realized that I have literally posted NOTHING in the month of May. What a huge slacker! When the weather turns nice here, I find myself with limited kitchen time. Other people though, have still been posting and so here are some interesting things that I have bookmarked this week: I love anything to do with bacon. … Read More
Makes My Life Easier-Baker’s Joy
This stuff is amazing. It has truly changed my baking. I used to cut parchment paper rounds out and place them at the bottom of my baking pans. Not anymore. Baker’s Joy is a combination of baking spray and flour. It makes the cake release like a dream and cuts my pan prep time to like zilch. I just wanted … Read More