Cakes, Baking, Crafts, Creativity.

My Red Velvet cake post got an interesting response from my friend Valerie, who bakes a family-heirloom recipe red velvet cake.  Her son wanted a blue velvet cake one year, so Valerie used blue...

When I make cookies I usually just roll out the dough and try to get it the same thickness all over. You want your cookies to be evenly-thick or they'll bake unevenly. This is a tip that you can use...

My mother passed away a few year ago, and one of the things that I brought back from her house was her old 1965 edition Fannie Farmer cookbook. I hadn't really looked at it...

I inherited an old cookbook that I'll be using to see what kind of desserts they used to eat before the invention of the electric oven.  I chose the recipe for poverty cake as my first...

I decided to try an old gingersnap recipe when I was trying out some old recipes from a cookbook that I had inherited from my Mother-in-law. This one is less sweet than modern recipes, but my kids...

I've always been under the impression, based on dire warnings from many sources, that even the tiniest speck of egg yolk will keep egg whites from beating to a stiff peak. But I wanted to see if...