Sometimes you just need a cake fast. This simple No-Bake Strawberry Cake is an old favorite from grandma’s kitchen — and once you try it, you’ll see why! All you need is four store-bought ingredients and about 10 minutes to whip up a sweet delight that looks almost as good […]
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Plum & Strawberry Galette: Pie takes a casual Friday
I have a galette story, and it involves Jonathan Gold screaming. How many people can say that? So, it’s not technically my galette story, but someone I know was there (and in my book that counts). A few years ago a very talented pastry chef I admire was judging the […]
Fun with Fruit Leather
Fruit leather makes for happy, sticky memories: The day you had fruit leather in your lunchbox was a day to celebrate indeed! Giggling over boys and fart jokes on the schoolyard was just so much sweeter with a fruit roll up “thumbsicle” to gnaw on. This simple recipe for homemade […]
The Cookie is Everything
Milk, breakups, thinking real hard … some things just go well with cookies. So when my son came home from a particularly trying day at school last week, begging to “bake something” with me, our path through the pantry was clear. Cookies are, in my mind, the purest of guilty […]