Sour Cream Lime Pound Cake

New Year’s Eve means different things to different people.  For some, it’s not New Year’s Eve if it’s not spent in Times Square.  For others, nothing is more horrific than spending December 31st with a huge group of drunken strangers in the bitter cold or in a club/bar.  Count me among the latter; I vastly prefer socializing in smaller, more intimate gatherings, and I’m also A-OK with spending time alone. Which is how I rang in 2011 … with a lime pound cake.  I happened to have a bottle of organic lime juice (yes, a bottle! It’s actually pretty decent- [...]

The Gorilla Bread Experiment

Sometimes I get tired of baking from scratch, especially around the holidays when everyone and everything is on fast-forward.  Throw in finals and term projects and it’s a recipe for havoc.  After a few friends put a bug in my ear about something called monkey bread, I thought I’d try it out and see what the fuss was about. I’ve learned monkey bread is really the hanging, edible gourdlike fruit of the baobab tree in Africa, Madagascar, and Australia that stores a lot of water. (source: www.thefreedictionary.com). So apparently it is the tree version of a camel? For those of [...]

FBM Cookie Swap 2010

If it’s wrong to love homemade cookies, then slap the handcuffs on because I don’t ever want to be right.  This past weekend, I met with the Feisty Foodie, Hungry, and KC at Ōttō for a cookie exchange.   I don’t know why I didn’t think of this idea myself but am super glad Yvo brought it up.  It’s great to have friends who love to set up events like this! Look at this array of goodies!  My cookie booty is laid out on the holiday napkin Yvo used to wrap her Sea Salt Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies (just to the [...]

Lavender Sugar Cookies

For many years, I’ve had a deep love of lavender.  The flower and scent, not the color.  I discovered how much I enjoyed it in baked goods when I happened upon a lavender cookie during a social gathering.  Sweet, not too crunchy, and delicately perfumed with lavender, I fell in love.  Like a ding-dong, I neglected to get the name of the bakery that made this wondrous delicacy. I was reminded of this cookie during my last trip to San Francisco, where I tasted the most sublime lavender crème brulée as well as a light-as-air strawberry-lavender macaron, and honey lavender [...]

Coconut Cupcakes

People either love or hate coconut.  Or they’re allergic to it.    Knowing that someone in my family was very likely to contribute a pumpkin and/or apple dessert to my aunt’s dinner, to which my brother and I were invited, I thought I’d do something a little different.  I’ve had good luck with my coconut layer cake but knew I wasn’t going to take the time to slice the cakes into four layers before filling and frosting them, not when I’m so short on time.  Really, who isn’t super-busy in these go-go-go days?   I went the tried and true cupcake [...]

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