Bake-Me-Down Recipes

This is adorable and wholesome and needs to be seen.   Lucky editor Mary Bilyeu of the online Newsletter The Blade had the opportunity to host a community submission of family recipes to be published in one of their posts. While most of them are cannily simple and surefire recipes to ensure a holly and…

Bazar Baking

A.k.a. craft shows, fairs, charity events and the like— they’re a different breed of business, but not impossible to benefit from! This past weekend I flew up North to participate in several craft shows with my amazingly skilled mom, and it took me a canceled flight and a bout of food poisoning to get there,…

3 Recipes for your Leftover Candy Crisis

Halloween has recently passed, and if you’re like any Trick-or-Treat participant, you thoughtfully overbought and have a frightening abundance of candy left over— and that’s absolutely okay! (Especially if you were planning for that *wink wink.*) In the event that you perhaps don’t want to hoard your leftovers all to yourself, I’ve found some ways…

Baking and libraries

This is possibly one of the sweetest and most brilliant ideas I’ve seen as it pertains to libraries; the fact that it includes baking is a HUGE bonus. Despite majoring in English and taking many, many a reading class, I hate reading. With a passion. Libraries are possibly one of my greatest enemies because the…

Pumpkin Splice Season

Yes. The pumpkin spice craze is upon us.   The screaming, nihilistic mass of Americans cried, “let there be pumpkin spice,” thus capitalism responded: pumpkin spice lattes. Pumpkin spice Poptarts. Pumpkin spice- scented candles. Pumpkin spice chapstick, pumpkin spice body spray, pumpkin spice dog treats– would you believe me if I told there was even…

Rehabilitating baking

On the subject of Boozy baking, although I do NOT condone the use of alcohol to solve the triviality of life but rather use it as a recreational—and rather mediocre— a catalyst of sorts, I figured I’d recount some recent success in the field of alcoholic baking! A modest café in Tucson, Arizona called the…