Adventures in cooking and baking.
These tiny homemade Pop Tarts are so fun to eat and totally "pop-able." They are perfect for a party, especially for a brunch.
These tiny pop-tarts, or "pop-tart bites," are a fun treat to serve for breakfast or brunch. Just use your favorite store-bought or homemade pie crust, fill it with your favorite jam, and top it with a bit of royal icing and your favorite sprinkles.
These polvorones de naranja are Mexican cookies flavored with orange three ways. They're super fluffy and cakelike, and not overly sweet.
Polvorones are a Mexican sugar or shortbread cookie. According to the collective brains of Wikipedia, they are derived from a Spanish cookie. In the United States, they are often referred to as Mexican wedding cookies.
These cereal milk muffins, flavored with the "essence" of your favorite breakfast cereal, are moist and fluffy, and totally fun to make, serve, and eat.
Cereal milk is the flavored milk left behind after finishing your breakfast cereal. I'm pretty sure a lot of kids finished all of the milk in their cereal bowl because of it.
You need to try these stir-fried cellophane noodles with enoki mushrooms, carrots, and snow peas tossed in a flavorful sauce of chicken broth, soy sauce, garlic, and toasted sesame oil. They're soooo good!
The transparent noodles absorb the wonderful flavors from the sauce. This stir-fry is super easy and amazingly delicious.
Pane di Genzano is a wonderful soft country bread, ideal for a picnic in the Italian countryside with cheese and salami.
This Pane di Genzano comes with a crunchy and thick crust which belies its super soft interior.
This garlic and vegetable cheese spread is so flavorful on crackers, bagels, rye toast, and crudités.
This garlic and vegetable cheese spread is really easy to throw together at the last minute, yet it's elegant enough for a dinner party.
This cinnamon roll cake, filled with a cinnamon strawberry jam, is actually two giant cinnamon rolls stacked on top of each other and drizzled with a lemony glaze.
This "cake" begins with two eight-inch yeasted cinnamon rolls baked in cake pans. The rolls are filled with a cinnamon-y strawberry jam, rolled up, baked, and drizzled with a lemony cream cheese glaze.
