Probably all of you remember my little rant on Halloween about wishing I could stay home and make homemade candy bars instead of going out. I went to the party that night, but I promised that the homemade candy bars would happen, and when I promise something, I deliver, even if no one could give [...]

It must be a really long time since I’ve made granola bars. Silly me, I thought I could just waltz right into my kitchen and whip some up. It took a lot of hunting around before I finally located the brown rice syrup at the back of my pantry, a woefully small amount left in [...]

Rich Vanilla Bean, Peanut Butter with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels and Peanut Butter Cups, Raspberry Swirl with Vienna Fingers No matter how many different ice cream flavors I churn out, the husband remains loyal to his all-time favorite: vanilla. So lame. Who is he? True, this vanilla ice cream is incredible. Super smooth, intensely rich and creamy, [...]

In the midst of making this cake, I realized that I’d never made a layer cake from scratch before. How embarrassing! And it was so impressive looking and fun to frost that I started thinking I have got to do this more often. Why on earth not? It wasn’t until I actually cut into the [...]

I asked/ordered my sister to make me this cake for my birthday. Then, I suggested/insisted that she take pictures of the process and convinced her that she wanted to do a guest blog post. Today is her birthday (the nerve she had to be born so close to my birthday!) and, as a birthday present [...]

Whenever anyone asks me how I’m not obese, I answer honestly: I hit the gym…a good amount! Now what I don’t usually tell them is that, quite serendipitously, my gym happens to be right across the street from the good grocery store (14 blocks from my apartment), so that whenever I “need” to go grocery [...]