The Pomegranate Chronicles

Inspired by this cupcake by Claire Wise, I decorated some cupcakes to take to our Tae Kwon Do Valentine’s Day party. Although new at confection creativeness, I took a stab at decorating them as beautifully as she did. They are super cute, but I need practice with decorating with icing. I baked and decorated four dozen for [...]

In my research for healthier eating, I found these menus for low carb eating by Laura Dolson. Although, I am not using the menus, I am taking tips and tricks from them. They do include some great recipes that I have altered to fit our tastes. On menu #2, there is a Apple Flax Muffin [...]

In an attempt to get to know our food better this year, Griff and I decided to forgo our traditional Mommy’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookies and try something a little more healthy. I stumbled across this Applesauce Cookie recipe on Delish.com. This is a great recipe and does not use any butter or sugar (it [...]

It’s gingerbread house time. We cheated a little and created a model to paste graham crackers to. The perfect paste is an old recipe my Mom had from an old magazine. Royal Frosting Recipe: Beat the white of one large egg (or more for desired consistency) with 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar until foamy. Slowly beat [...]

I saw this recipe for Fudgy Banana Muffins on Taste of Home and needed to make them. I modified it to be a loaf and used chocolate chips instead of chocolate chunks. Holy Yumminess Batman! Happy Baking!    

I’ve seen on more than one of the blogs I follow, a link to these amazing looking Baked Pumpkin Spiced Donut Holes. As soon as we saw them, we HAD to try them. Into the mixer the pumpkin went! I know these were suppose to be “baked” donut holes, but my vintage Jenn-air stove came with a [...]

Of course with all those apples we picked on the school trip, we made pie. Happy Baking!

Try my third generation Whoopie Pie Recipe!

I have heard about this perfect “every time” artisan bread that you can make in five minutes. I am sure you have all heard about it and most of you have probably tried it. My family has been making it for years, but I had yet to give it a whirl. I was short on [...]

I have expressed before that baking cupcakes with Griff is one of my favorite things to make, especially when Mimi is here to help. It’s amazing how much bigger he has gotten since my last post about box cupcakes. I must admit, box cupcakes are still my favorite. It’s also nice because Griff can see [...]