I like cake, and I like cake texture: light and springy and soft. But I do not like my brownies to look, feel, or taste like cake*. Without being sickeningly sweet and heavy, I want my brownies sweet enough a small piece is enough, super moist and just the right density that the weight of a small piece is a…
Carrot Cake has been kind of vilified for decades because people long ago decided a perfectly good cake needed additions like pecans and pineapple, and coconut basically has no place in a recipe except in a Pina Colada recipe. Remember that people also came up with a hot dog Jello dish (google it if you don’t believe me!), so we…
We don’t keep a lot of recipes from “way back when” (I started learning to cook) because there was such a big learning curve for me. In other words, most of it was not worth remaking and I didn’t have the experience to fix problem recipes. All I had was printed or written copies as I was learning both before…
Cinnamon Rolls are something that most bakers have their own “best ever” recipe for, and I’m one of them! It’s getting a little harder to make breads that require rolling, thanks to arthritis, but this is one recipe that is worth popping an Advil for. We’ve been using this recipe for over a decade – it was originally added to…