One thing I have learned over the years. It's okay to be unhappy recipe. Everyone has different tastes and sometimes you just won't like how a baked good tastes. For instance, I made some of the most impressive looking Irish...
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Fat-Free Rice Krispie Treats Recipe without Butter
Fat-Free Rice Krispie Treats Recipe without butter is an easy modification. Since there is no butter in this recipe, this is also a dairy-free rice krispie treat recipe. Kellogg® brand puffed rice cereal and high quality...
Completely Crazy About Chocolate Macarons
Chocolate macarons are amazing simply because they combine the flavors of meringue, almonds and cocoa. They remind you of brownies, chocolate silk pie and almond candy bars all at once. They are the perfect treat for...
Brown Sugar Honey Wheat Quick Bread
Using brown sugar and honey with wheat flour is one of my favorite flavor combinations. I decided to modify the traditional soda bread recipe for a quick bread that didn't require buttermilk. The addition of honey and brown...
Simple to Make Farmhouse Dinner Rolls
Farmhouse dinner rolls are my favorite bread. In fact, I can easily chow down 1/2 dozen without even blinking an eye. I will pass up the most delicious sweets for one of these soft buttery rolls every time. They are so...
Classic Hungarian Goulash, the Pride of Budapest
Classic Hungarian goulash is often called Hungarian Stew in the United States. When Americans typically think of goulash, they imagine a macaroni ground beef stew similar to Hamburger Helper. Hungarian goulash, however is a...
Quick and Easy Country Style Homemade Egg Noodles
Quick and easy homemade egg noodles are fast to make and have on the table within 1/2 hour. I reckon these noodles came about when a tired mother decided she wasn't up to rolling out dough thin enough to read a newspaper...
French Pastry Cream versus American Pudding
What is difference between a pastry cream recipe versus American pudding? The truth is, not much. As long as we are talking about the cooked version and not the box kind. It took a long time for me to figure out how to make...
Classic Sugar Cookies are Fantastically Easy
Learn how to make classic sugar cookies today! These are the one of the easiest cookies to make. By learning how to make a sugar cookie, you are learning the basics of cookie making. Once you master this simple, sweet...
I Found My Thrill on Blueberry Jam
Learning how to make simple blueberry jam in an afternoon is entirely possible. And you don't have to make a large batch, either. This makes just around 1/2 cup of jam depending on the size of your berries. Making fresh jam...
Old-Fashioned and Wonderful Banana Nut Bread
If you want to learn how to make old-fashioned banana bread that is simply scrumptious, you are in luck. This is an amazing recipe that I have had for decades. It is well loved and requested frequently. I love to make...
Classic Crisp and Chewy Chocolate Cookies
Classic chewy chocolate cookies is just what it sounds like. A nice rich chocolate cookie that reminds you of brownies. You can make them puffy or flat as pancakes. Simply chill the dough for puffy cookies and bake...
Kneading Dough in a Bowl is Simple and Space Saving
Kneading dough in a bowl is possible if you are limited for space. If you don't have a mixer and want to make bread dough, it's pretty easy to do. Here is a pictorial tutorial on how to do so in about 10 minutes time. I used...
Refreshingly Tart Raspberry Lemonade Swiss Roll
Raspberry lemonade swiss roll is as delicious as it sounds. Truly. I was a tad bored and expecting company later. Our visitor made a comment about liking jelly rolls once, so I decided to try to make one for him. This recipe...
Walnut Cinnamon Sugar Cookies Recipe
Learn how to make scrumptious walnut cinnamon sugar cookies today! My husband is of Middle Eastern decent and loves many of the desserts from that region. I've also been exposed to a lot of food that I likely would have...
Delicious Banana Walnut Cake Recipe
This banana walnut cake is a sweeter version of the beloved banana bread. By beating air into the batter with a mixer instead of making this by hand, you get a lovely cake texture that is moist and soft. It's simply and...
Found Recipe Shows Vast Improvement in Baking
Finally clearing out the last of the moving boxes, I found my beloved recipes! And right in the middle of the box was a beloved banana bread when I first started baking as a young adult. Unfortunately, I didn't find the...
My Brother Wants a Plain Old Boxed Birthday Cake
My brother wants a birthday cake. Thursday is my brother's birthday. He asked me to make him a cake. In my mind, I imagine all the possibilities: genoise, swiss roll, red velvet, chiffon, devil's food cake...and my thoughts...
Quick and Easy Tropical Toasted Coconut Flakes
Learn how to make quick and easy tropical toasted coconut flakes on the stove top. I don't know why, but when it comes to toasting coconut, if I try the oven method, it never has an even browning. I think it's because it's...
Lemon Curd Mishap Turns into Cake
A lemon curd mishap turns into cake. I decided long ago to show the bad along with the good. I call it the "learning curve." Too often, you see people posting the joys of baking and when you attempt their recipe, you have a...
Use Up Those Egg Yolks Pound Cake
Looking for a recipe to use up those leftover egg yolks? This egg yolk recipe may be just what you are looking for! This dozen egg yolks pound cake was an invention after learning how to make french meringue in combination...