Everybody’s Mom’s Black Bottom Cupcakes
When I was growing up we didn’t call these black bottom cupcakes, we called them cream cheese cupcakes and when my mom made them they weren’t going to last in the Tupperware container for very long because they were everyone’s favorite. This was in the 80s in Wisconsin, USA. Once I moved away from home […]
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Toffee Bark with Salted Pecans
I always find it amusing when something from my mom’s kitchen shows up in the New York Times. Food has become a hobby for people in a way it just wasn’t the many decades ago when my childhood was happening. That isn’t a comment on our current food culture, necessarily, it’s more that I’m not […]
Simple Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut butter cookies had to have been the first thing my mom taught me how to bake. They are so simple to put together, make a minimum amount of mess and are made with things we had in our kitchen at all times. Namely, peanut butter. Let’s take a second here and talk about peanut […]
Spiced Brown Sugar Crumble Cake
This is not a polite cake. It isn’t a familiar cake. It takes things you would normally see at the dinner table and uses them to make your coffee break way more interesting. It’s the only cake I crave and when that craving hits, no other thing will scratch that itch. Not even my favorite […]
Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if I’m plugged into the zeitgeist or if I’m just victim to some smart speaker in my house listening to me and then serving up exactly what I was talking about to my Instagram account. How else to explain the fact I was standing by the fridge last week and […]