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 […]
In case you missed the event. And if the journey is just as much fun as the destination, enjoy this 13:33 video recap of the 2012 Makes-Me-Wanna SHOUT! Chocolate Layer Cake Baking Challenge Finals at Eatonville Restaurant in Washington, DC. Recorded Tuesday, April 24, 2012.
Austin Brown, an energy analyst in Washington, DC took the cake first prize blue ribbon for his Chocolate Trio Cake at the Makes-Me-Wanna SHOUT! Chocolate Layer Cake Baking Challenge Final Five at Eatonville Restaurant April 24th. The 2011 Coconut Cake Challenge winner Decoyise Brown (no relation) was among the official judges who rated all […]
