My sister is the chief cookie baker during the holidays. She was the one who initiated the annual sugar and gingerbread cookie baking. We still have our old metal cutters which are now favored above the plastic cutters of Peanuts characters and other commerical influences from the 1970s. Aside from the fruit cake, I’m putting […]
This week National Public Radio (NPR) launches “Pie Week” (tweet #pieweek) in time for the July 4th holiday. Pie and 4th of July not only bust a rhyme but go together like peas and rice. I eat baked sweet potatoes. The thought of pie doesn’t strike me until around Halloween when I start […]
I’m psyching myself up to bake another layer cake. This time, it’s Decoyise “Dee” Brown‘s winning coconut cake from the 2011 Makes-Me-Wanna SHOUT! Coconut Cake Challenge. I printed the recipe that was published in the Washington Post last year. I also checked in with Decoyise. She’s making a coconut cake this weekend too. The […]
Don’t hate me for saying this, but the first time I ever heard of Red Velvet Cake was on the reality show “The Apprentice” nearly 8 years ago. In the episode “Scoop Dreams,” Donald Trump gives two teams — the all-female Apex, and all-male Mosaic — the challenge to come up with new flavors for […]
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