The Story: Doughnuts are healthy, right? I mean, they are better than eating a cupcake topped with butter and sugar (which is exactly what buttercream is). And these even offer a serving of fruit! Man, I love healthy recipes… Apple Pie Doughnuts: ¾ cup + 1 Tb flour ¼ cup whole wheat pastry flour…
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Orange Currant Scones with Melted Chocolate
The Story: Home for the summer with my mother and father includes free rent and utilities, but it also effects what I bake. My mother is a big cookie lover, but she also adores a good scone. Orange Currant Scones: 4 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda 1 ½ teaspoon…
Key Lime Pies
I am done with finals and school for the year, so it should feel like summer, right? Wrong. Mother Nature still likes to play tricks on me and bring snow at the end of April and working two jobs means 60-hour weeks. So to bring a little spark of summer into my…
Ice Cream Cake
The Story: Over a month ago I started to play around with the idea of an ice cream cake. Because I mean, who doesn’t love ice cream? Once upon a time I saw Giada (from the Food Network) make a dessert with a brownie base, ice cream, and then a chocolate layer. So…
Perfect Banana Bread
The Story: Maybe I am weird, but I dream of perfect banana bread. You know the kind you can get a beautiful slice of from a bakery or a little coffee shop? Bread that is dark, dense and moist and exploding with flavor… Well, I did a little banana bake-off this week. I…
Candied Pecans
The Story: The Christmas treat that I always look forward to is the bag of glazed pecans we get from our neighbors every year. I am usually the one to find them at the doorstep and I tend to fill up a plastic bag with half of them and hide them away in a…
