Cake in a slow cooker? Sounds a bit strange right? I mean, my adventures with my slow cooker have only featured stews and soups and chillis. It's hard to imagine "slow cooking" a cake. Now, imagine slow cooking a pound cake! I can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten pound cake in my lifetime (I mean, we call it Pound Cake for a reason). And, I'm certain most of those cakes were of the pre-packaged variety: But, when I came across this recipe over at The Naptime Chef, I just had to try it! … [Read more...]
Homemade Cinnamon Buns
February 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Cinnamon Buns have always been etched my mind as “sinful buns.” As a child, when the mall opened up near my house in Baltimore, my mother and I would spend hours walking around to the different specialty shops and department stores. When “Cinnabon” opened up, it was a total treat to watch the employees hand roll the buns and slather on all the cream cheese topping. The warm sweet smells from that little stall alone seemed to fill up the entire market place. Fast forward thirty years. … [Read more...]
Cinnamon Raisin Bread
January 27, 2014 By 15 Comments
It’s the Secret Recipe Club reveal day today. I was assigned the blog Lynsey Lou’s, written by twenty-something Lynsey who’s recently married and uses her blog to explore and share recipes for her husband. Her blog represents a wide variety of foods from simple cakes and meat dishes to other recipes categorized as “ for daring bakers.” While many of Lynsey's recipes are tempting, I decided to take a crack at her Cinnamon Raisin Bread. Actually, for me, it was a huge challenge to attempt to make bread (that has to rise twice) in my own … [Read more...]
Compost Cookies
December 11, 2013 By 1 Comment
I just participated in the 3rd Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. It’s an exciting program, hosted by Lindsay of Love and Olive Oil and Julie of The Little Kitchen, which brings together food bloggers from around the world “in celebration of all things scrumptious”. The premise of the program is quite simple. I baked delicious home made cookies and sent a dozen of each to three other assigned food bloggers. In return, I received three dozen cookies from three separate food bloggers: Pecan Cookies from Cats and Commas; Date Pinwheels from … [Read more...]
