Dessert First
For years our family tradition has been that the birthday kid chooses a birthday cake that I make for them.
Christmas cookies, part 2
A day later, the cookies are baked!
Christmas cookies part 1
For the first time in Christmas baking history, the old boy is getting his ingredients organized beforehand!
Queen Elizabeth I Had Her Guests Eat Gingerbread Men That Looked Like Themselves (Cool Weird Awesome 434)
For National Cookie Day, we take a closer look at the amazing and frequently disturbing history of gingerbread, including how one of the most famous royals of all time helped bring gingerbread people into the world. Plus: a lesson in patience from a musical great who made herself into a cookie-baking expert.
If You’re Making Cookies In Space, Be Patient (Cool Weird Awesome 227)
Last month, astronauts on the International Space Station baked chocolate chip cookies. But baking cookies in space is a little different than baking them on Earth.
Half Birthday Cake
This week I told my eight year old it was his half birthday. He immediately said, “I want a half cake... we could put half a smiley face on it.”
Leftover Halloween Cookies
We’re making cookies with some of the leftover Halloween candy.
I learned how to make royal icing
It's a bit runny but for a first try I'm pretty happy with it!
Let’s start the bidding
It took me all morning to put the brioche together but it tastes great.
OMG
If you can't spell out internet acronyms when you're making pretzels, are you even really making pretzels?