Daring Bakers November: Delicious Caramel

This month’s recipe was Caramel Cake with Caramelized Butter Icing courtesy of Shuna Fish Lydon, as published on Bay Area Bites. Sounds tasty, right? The recipe involved a great deal of butter, sugar, and making your own caramel syrup to be used as part of the cake. Since Rich’s birthday is November 9th, I decided […]

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A tale of two cupcakes

I’ve always been a fan of cupcakes.  Cute, single serving treats of delicious cake and icing, what’s not to love?  I’ve never really understood why some don’t like them.  I understand not liking cake at all, or preferring cake to cupcakes.  I also understand being sick of the cupcake trend, with bakeries popping up all […]

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Food TV Cooking Club: March

This month’s recipe was for a coffee cake. The recipe is meant to be a lighter version than your typical cake, although I have to wonder just how light it would be, given the ingredients. Butter? Full fat yogurt? Three eggs? Regardless of how light the recipe is, I do have to say it was […]

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