Apple Cider Donut Cake with Mascarpone Buttercream
You can’t live in the Midwest and not fall in love with fall. The first crisp blue skied day of the season has me longing to be outdoors. I grew up in So...
Category: Baking
Reading and Eating: Paul Hollywood’s Ginger Snaps
I love a good weeknight dessert recipe. A simple recipe with good ingredients that I can bake and share my family. I was looking for new everyday dessert recipe...
Lemon Cheesecake Bars
My lemon cheesecake bars are sweet, cool and irresistibly good on a warm summer day. The citrus flavor from fresh lemon juice and curd sings when paired with cr...
Soft Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies
“No one can sleep if a bunch of chocolate chip cookies sing all night from the cupboard.” -Snoopy These soft bake chocolate chip cookies are the all...
The Case of the Disappearing Candy Cane Cookies
My husband was on a work trip when I first created this new candy cane sugar cookie recipe. So, after hearing all about them on the phone the night before he wa...
Honeycrisp Apple Pie
In our house holiday desserts are never an afterthought. They are an event in and of itself. My oldest daughter likes to remind me that her stomach has a specia...
The Great Hinsdalean Bake Off
I usually don’t usually post my newspaper columns on my blog but this one was too fun not to share. So here is the tale of my recent historic recipe chall...
Butter Cake
“I’d like the world to slow down and eat cake together- the slowing down bit is less important.” – Charlie Mackesy Oh, how I love British illustrato...
The Sweet Smell of Christmas
The sweet smell of ginger, cinnamon and cloves fills the air as I open our back door. My girls quickly drop their school bags and coats as they scramble in the ...
Celebrating Five Years with Lemon Mousse Parfaits
“So often in life things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg In life I have found that adversit...