Category Archives: baking

These are actually Fake Lofthouse Sugar Cookie Bars. Now, I realize that I am in the minority because I genuinely like Lofthouse Sugar Cookies (you’ve all no doubt seen them in the grocery store–sugar cookies with day-glo frosting and sprinkles, … Continue reading →

If I were to dwell on the negative, I would think about all the years I was deprived of Berger Cookies. Instead, though, I will look on the bright side and just be grateful that I have a good friend … Continue reading →

Ginger Shortbread, originally uploaded by super eggplant. You know, these are the cookies you take to a gathering, and everyone kind of looks at them like, meh, they look kind of sad and lame, but then they bite into one, … Continue reading →

Check out the extreme patriotism here with the red, white, and blue dessert! I can’t really take credit for the blue (okay, teal) cake. That chicken Amy first notified me about it last week. The recipe is from the Betty … Continue reading →

Whenever I bake a cake, I seem to have leftover buttermilk and other ingredients that end up going to waste. I wondered if there might be some sort of sweet treat that would require exactly the amounts of my leftover … Continue reading →

lemon bars, originally uploaded by super eggplant. Who doesn’t love a good lemon bar? I have tried many a lemon bar recipe, and most of them have been just fine. Yesterday I was browsing through my copy of Emily Luchetti’s … Continue reading →

I recently had a white trash cookie party. It was white trash not in a disgusting yicky sense but in a delicious, cookies-from-bygone-eras sense. We had some real winners, I think. I made these orange dream cookies with white chocolate … Continue reading →

It was Peter’s birthday the other day, which means we had to have cream cheese pie. I don’t know how many years ago his mother started making cream cheese pie, but it’s been Peter’s favorite pie ever since he can … Continue reading →