Bake with abandon!
No-Egg SPice Cake This week, my grocery store had flour aplenty, but not a single tin of baking powder. Of course, for the first time in a decade, I was out of baking powder. And when I can’t have something, I crave it. The second I …
Bev’s Best Banana Bread I’m not a banana fan. They’re so pushy. They will smother every ingredient in a fruit salad — except for obnoxious cantaloupe. They leap from peanut butter sandwiches just to annoy you, and will slime-up a perfectly decent cream pie. Banana …
3-Ingredient Browned-Butter Crispy Rice Squares This 3-ingredient recipe has almost as many hyphens as ingredients. And no, Browned-Butter Crispy Rice Squares are not in my book. Not because I was holding out on you. It’s just that the concept didn’t occur to me until too …
flourless chocolate chip peanut butter cookies This recipe was inspired by my cousin Donna. She loves chocolate and isn’t all that into baking, so this one’s right up her alley. Recently, she asked if it was okay to put chocolate chips in my Buttery Oatmeal …
3-Ingredient Nutty Granola Bars The grocery situation changes almost constantly now. A couple of weeks ago, the local supermarket had no toilet paper and no flour but plenty of eggs. Last week, I nabbed the second last bag of flour and picked up a dozen …
Vanilla Buttercream Icing When I was a kid, we used to ice sugar cookies with vanilla buttercream. Mom didn’t use a recipe. She’d drop a dollop of butter in a bowl, sprinkle it with icing sugar, add a splash of vanilla, and drizzle in just …
No-Egg Browned-Butter Cake Crazy as this sounds, not everyone likes chocolate. My ultra-hyphenated Egg-Free Depression-Era Chocolate Cake was popular with the chocolate crowd, but some vanilla fanciers felt left out. To keep the peace, I set about making a vanilla variation. In the chocolate version, …
Hard-Top Chocolate Sauce I endured a challenging childhood. My mother, a die-hard scratch cook and baker, refused to buy the cardboard biscuits and waxy bottled sauces other kids took for granted. For years, I suffered from a range of maladies, including Nesquik® Envy and Magic-Shell-Chocolate-Sauce …
3-Ingredient Butterscotch Oaties Recipes are not always set in stone. Yes, baking is often more precise than cooking, but that doesn’t mean you can’t improvise. These Butterscotch Oaties are my desperate adaptation of Butterscotch Haystacks. I had the butterscotch chips and peanut butter on hand, …