Happy St. Patrick’s Day! You all know Guinness is good for you, right? Well, Guinness chocolate cake is even better. I tried to drink the leftover beer… that didn’t work out. Maybe I should have let it come to room temperature and poured it into a pint glass? Since I made this as a bundt […]
I have a confession to make: When I went to Dublin (in 2000), I ate at Planet Hollywood. Yeah, I know. The first day I was there, I went on a tour of the countryside and ate at a little pub in the middle of nowhere. Later, I tried a boxty (hated it) and even […]
You know what today is, right? Arizona’s 99th birthday! What better way to celebrate that — and that other holiday — than red velvet cupcakes? You need cake flour for this recipe, and I thought I had a whole box. Then I picked up the box to measure it and realized I only had about […]
Remember the polka-dot helmets? I figured out a way to turn those polka dots into the Steelers logo: I didn’t take a lot of photos of the frosting and decorating process with these because it was the middle of the night and I wanted to get them done. But basically I just made polka dots […]
Don’t worry, I didn’t forget the Packers! I was just having some trouble with the lemon curd I made earlier. I tried using the “teal” color from the Duff jewel colors pack, but it turned it blue. So don’t do that. So… the lemon curd I made tastes amazing. Unfortunately, it didn’t thicken properly. I […]
Are you ready for the Super Bowl? I’m totally not. But I do have some cookies, so that’s a good start. The first cookies I made today were Steelers macarons — yellow shells with chocolate ganache. I used the same recipe and method for the macaron shells I used during the 12 days of Christmas […]
I’m planning to make — and post — Super Bowl macarons on Saturday, so if you are interested in doing the same, go ahead and separate some eggs now so your egg whites can age. This weekend I did a practice run with my sugar cookies, using the general decorating method used by Bridget of […]
Toby loves football, I love food and we both love having people over. So the Super Bowl really works for us. Last year we were semi-foiled by a major blizzard, but even that worked out OK because if everyone who RSVP’d had shown up, I don’t think we would have had enough room for everyone […]
Well, I fell off the cleanse/diet wagon. Luckily, I fell onto the sugar wagon, which is padded with toasted coconut marshmallows (thank you, Timmi!). So it didn’t hurt a bit. I am going back on the diet, but in the interim I needed to do something about these super-ripe bananas. (I randomly started calling them […]
Everyone needs a little dessert — even if they are on a diet. I wanted something sweet that would also be relatively healthy, so I ended up with pears. There is really no reason to use two different kinds of pears, except that it looks prettier to have two colors. And I thought it might […]