Easter tends to be pretty quiet at my house - TV, baking, that kind of thing. This year I made these cute little cookies for us to munch on....

December kind of snuck up on me this year, so I have been a cookie-making machine lately. This year's varieties include: zimtsterne, zit...

I am so thankful to have this husband. He singlehandedly planned and cooked Thanksgiving dinner for nine. All I had to do was make desert (c...

Due to a few scheduling constraints, my family and I weren't able to get together for our annual Christmas Cookie Baking Extravaganza. W...

We've got chocolate shortbread (not iced yet), chocolate coated orange Springerle, Linzer cookies made with homemade cranberry-cherry-or...

Tomorrow is December so cookie season will  officially begin. Hooray!

Homemade bread in less than one hour? Let's look at the directions:   Hmmmmm. Let rise for two hours, rest for 40 minutes and then bake ...

I have always liked the look of cookies iced with flow icing, but I've never tried it. Until now. My youngest child decided they wanted ...

  I'd like to introduce you to Lucas and Sylvester; my youngest child's pet rats. ( Fancy rats as I am regularly reminded.)  They j...

I present to you, my very first Victoria Sandwich cake. Another bake inspired by the Great British Baking Show. It looks impressive bu...

Orange meringue pie this time... Our neighbors had some friends up to visit, and as is common on Mackinac, those friends brought pres...

During quarantine this spring I discovered The Great British Baking Show . It's right up my alley - chock full of delicious sweets a...

Two days ago I started making homemade clotted cream. It is simple to make but it takes about 24 hours, so it can't be rushed.  (I now ...

I'm not a big cook. I don't really enjoy it; to me it is more chore than fun. It just takes so much... time . Well, time is some...

Last week the kids and I set out to make pasties. A lot of pasties. The goal was to make enough so we could have dinne...

The other day my friend, Lynn, posted about the doughnuts she and her boys made. My daughter saw the post and decided we needed doughnuts...

I made bagels. They were...  OK .  Not great, but not awful either.  We ate them toasted, with cream cheese and homemade blu...

This winter during my family's annual Christmas cookie baking extravaganza, I found this recipe in my cousin's recipe book. I al...

Hands down my kids' favorite vegetables these days is Brussels sprouts. Which, by the way, I always thought were called Brussel ...

Hands down, this is my favorite bread-making book. (Check out the authors' other books here .) I love bread. And when I say l...