I don’t know if any of you read The Bakers’ Banter - King Arthur Flour’s baking blog - but you really should. The articles are filled with wonderful step-by-step photos of amazing creations. It’s good to use a keyboard cover when visiting the site because you’ll be drooling all over it when you [...]

What are you going to do with all that leftover Easter candy? Nikki has provided the perfect solution by choosing Easter candy as this month’s Master Baker ingredient. Keep an eye out for her recipe round-up at the beginning of April. There are bound to be recipes for just about every type of Easter candy [...]

I guess you never know where inspiration will strike. I just finished reading From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz. One of the characters proves to be most at home in the kitchen. At one point in the story he makes a batch of chocolate chip cookies with coconut and pecans for his [...]

Hermits are soft, spicy, cake-like cookies, and they happen to be one of the very few ways I enjoy eating raisins. Maybe it’s all that soaking, or all the butter and brown sugar and spices, or maybe it’s just the memory of my mom baking them when I was a kid. After passing [...]

Delicious sugar cookies! Before I get to the recipe, let me mention a couple of important women’s issues that are particularly relevant this month.
First, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Please take the time to visit the Breast Cancer Site . They’re giving away free mammograms for every time someone visits the site and clicks [...]