Cranberry Pecan Bread
Aside from turkey, on any given holiday table, my least favorite thing is very often the cranberry sauce. Perhaps I had one too many cloying canned versions as a kid, or the ones I had were simply too tart; for whatever reason, I usually pass the cranberry bowl to the next person swiftly. But then […]
Cinnamon-Eggnog Scones with Blonde Chocolate
I must say that I love the lazy “holiday hangover” days between Christmas and New Year’s, when you don’t know what day it is without thinking about it for a sec, when you’re still snacking on holiday cookies, and when most of the events are over. Let me preface this next bit by saying that […]
Earl Grey Shortbread Snowflakes with Blood Orange Glaze
We’re all still eating cookies, yes? This has been such a fun cookie year for me, and I keep happily finding reasons to make more. In this hazy week between Christmas/Chanukah and New Year’s, I find that “lunch” consists of grazing on cookies throughout the afternoons on most days, and I can’t really say that […]
Sicilian Cuccidati (Christmas Fruit & Nut Cookies)
As you might remember if you’ve been following this blog for a while, I have a deep affinity for Italy, and while it took me a while to come around to Italian desserts, they’ve really grown on me over the years. These are my favorite Italian holiday cookies, called Cuccidati (coo-chee-DAH-tee), as requested a few […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Orange Pineapple Walnut Fruitcake
Insofar as I would ever like fruitcake, I didn’t hate this Orange Pineapple Walnut Fruitcake as much as I thought I would. And I fully expected to hate it because it was one of the recipes that I tested for Baked Occasions a few years back. The recipe was a good fruitcake recipe, assuming you find fruitcake edible […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Pink Peppermint Stick Ice Cream with Homemade Hot Fudge
I didn’t mean to make it Pepto Bismol pink. Apparently I have a heavy hand when it comes to food coloring– I wonder if someday I will learn to start with just a couple of drops, or am I doomed to a lifetime of electric/circus/princess-colored treats? Now I know that “Deep Pink” is, in fact, […]
Rum & Spice & Everything Nice: Eggnog Sandwich Cookies
I am a nice Jewish girl who loves her eggnog. I honestly can’t recall when eggnog came into my life, though it was definitely later on. It wasn’t something I was familiar with as a kid, and the name was most certainly a turnoff. But at some point someone must have thrust a glass in […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Wintermint Cake
Gone are the days that I used to dread making layer cakes. When a layer cake would come up on the Baked Sunday Mornings schedule, I used to feel a mixture of elation, anxiety, and mortal fear; but thankfully the latter two have eroded as my experience with BAKED‘s cakes and frostings has yielded more successes than failures in recent […]
Baked Sunday Mornings: Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars
I rarely crave pumpkin out of season; although I quite like it, it’s not generally one of my overarching favorite flavors per se– it does not keep me up at night with recipe ideas or stark, raving mad obsession like chocolate or caramel. (That’s normal, right?!) However, almost like clockwork, on the Autumnal Equinox, all […]
