Since it’s Camp Fire mint season and I have leftover Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Covered Mint Truffle Kisses and a bar of my favorite Lindt Excellence Chili Dark Chocolate and since I am baking some cookies to take along with me for a visit with my mother on Bainbridge Island tomorrow, I decided to try a … More New! Vanilla Chocolate Chili Snickerdoodle
The 17th of January is the birthday of my youngest brother, 10 years younger than me (the oldest of six.) Since he lives in my mother’s home and helps to care for her and the property, she would have baked a cake for his birthday. However, she’s recovering from a surgery at a rehab facility … More Triple Chocolate Birthday Cake
As a baker who doesn’t like to make or eat pie crust but is fond of the fillings which go into the shell, and as I will not be preparing Thanksgiving dinner again this year but am making a couple Dutch apple pies for gifts today, I decided to chop some additional apples and make … More Who doesn’t like Dutch Spiced Apple Birthday Pie? My recipe.
“Why don’t you simply make half a batch of raspberry sauce if you don’t need the whole thing?” asked Sylvia after I’d told her that I’d only used 1/4 cup of it in the frosting for the Raspberry Joneses* made a few days ago. Answer: because it takes as long to make a half batch … More juliyya’s Chocolate & Raspberry Surprise Cupcakes. Maybe Cupcake Joneses?
I had to go to my local Trader Joe’s again today to pick up one of their dark Belgian chocolate Pound Plus bars because somebody had bought every one of them in stock when I went in store yesterday and there was another box due last night. (There was still plenty of the other four … More Update 12/2024 Product Review: Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Covered Peppermint Cremes
When I made the Chocolate Rum Fudge Sauce* last week, today’s (August 12) birthday girl mentioned something about liking to have it on a cake, so I made that happen. I made an Ellensburg Chocolate Cake which has sour cream and brown sugar rather than granulated, both adding a shade of difference to the taste … More Chocolate Rum Double-Up Cake
Sometimes you gotta just eat it with a spoon, but thick and creamy fudge sauce has its way most often to the top of a scoop of ice cream. Today I made a Kahlua and Rum Ice Cream, well, am making it. The freezing time compared to last abode is more, but the quarter cup … More Chocolate Rum Fudge Sauce. Recipe.
Just before I moved, Mark handed me a bag with organic grated coconut from the Ballard Market and yesterday I found out that he was still organizing and removing his collections from the yard of the house now owned by a developer. So, it was up early this morning to bake his favorite cookie before … More Toasted Coconut & Butterscotch Bars, aka Hawaiian Dream Bars without Pineapple
Plumber fellow who will be in a couple hours providing a bit of a fix to a serious problem under the kitchen sink said, a few days ago, “Yeah. I like to eat. I like baked stuff.” I’d told him that I often express gratitude by baking something which I know the intended recipient has on … More Gratitude Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie with Crumble Crust, Recipe
I glimpsed a headline this afternoon announcing National Pie Day. I didn’t know there was such a thing, but there is, and so some apples from Bellingham in a brown bag inside the fridge finally found their long-intended way into a pie. In truth, pies are my least favorite things to bake, but I accepted … More National Pie Day? Dutch Apple Pie
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