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Basic Pie Dough
This is a good, basic pie crust recipe. It has a good mixture of shortening vs. butter to allow flakiness but still keep it delicate. From Cooks Illustrated Baking cookbook / 2007 November issue.
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Candied Cherries
This was a part of our glorious 18 pound cherry purchase. These work well on their own, or, as the case was yesterday, great over cake (Classic Bundt Cake in the Dorrie Greenspan “Baking” cookbook).
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Southern Red Velvet Cake
A very tasty Red Velvet Cake.
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Grilled flatbread with Za’atar
An incredibly easy and fun BBQ bread to have on hand.
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Triple Layer Chocolate Cake
Ingredients cake: 1 c. butter, room temp 3 c. light brown sugar, packed 4 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 3/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 T. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt 3 c. sifted cake flour 1 1/3 c. sour cream 1 1/2 c. hot coffee frosting: 8 T. butter, room temp 16 oz. cream cheese,…
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Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (small recipe)
This is our go-to recipe for smaller cakes.
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Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting (large recipe)
This is our standard, go-to, recipe for cakes. This recipe makes enough to frost a triple layer cake.
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Flambee Banana Bread w/ Carmalized Pecans
This is a dussied up banana bread recipe. This is best served warm, but it still tastes good a few days later, rewarmed with some strawberry compote / jam.
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Irish Soda Bread
Discovered on St Patrics day 2007 or 2006, this has gotten a number of rave reviews.
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rice pudding with bay leaf
A rice pudding with an Indian flair. Michelle made this for a Pongal party in 2007 and it was an instant hit with the many South Indians at the party.