Welcome Home! Apple Pie!

September 1st, I moved to New York City. 45 days later, I finally picked up my laptop to blog again. Phew! When I talked about making big life changes, I wasn’t kidding around. In the last 45 days, I’ve moved and started working freelance; great timing, right? Luckily, all’s going well right now, and I’m [...]

Daring Bakers April 2008– Success!

Those who know me well know that I don’t do well with fiddly details. You see, at work, I’m a perfectionist I work with statistics and economics and data analysis, I have to be precise and perfect all the time, and when I come home, I want to make ginormous sticky measures and play around. [...]

Butterscotch Buttermilk Banana Cake (Idiotproof)

This cake…. well, it’s fabulous. Really fabulous. Light, fluffy, sweet but not cloying, moist– and *impossible* to screw up. It even acts as a natural air freshener. Y’know how I know that?

Well, to begin with, I had never even heard of banana cake. Banana bread, yes, banana cake, no. But when I ordered extra bananas [...]

Daring Bakers– March

Also known as the blog post in which our heroine spends a long time baking a cake that she doesn’t like in the end. Sigh. Last month’s Daring Bakers challenge, which I missed the deadline on while I was in Sudan, didn’t seem hard to me. And, indeed, while it involved an obscene amount of [...]

Wicked ARF-5 a Day

I’m feeling a little bit wicked today, so I’m going to submit a luscious, rich dessert– pound cake– to Sweetnick’s ARF-5 a Day event.

You see (or maybe you don’t see- I finally got my camera in the mail yesterday, too late! alas for a picture of this), this isn’t just any pound cake. This is [...]

Daring Bakers- Lemon Meringue Pie Jan 2008

Hello, and welcome to this month’s Daring Bakers Challenge! This month we all got together and baked lemon meringue pies… or in my case, tartelets! I made mine in cupcake pans, rather than free-form or in a pie tin, and they were not as aesthetically pleasing as they might have been… but I think they [...]

Daring Bakers- Pictures!

Welcome back and happy new year, all! It’s been a nice long break, and I’m back with pictures! In fact, I was even given enough gift money to buy a decent budget digital camera (yay!), so if you have any recommendations, please leave them in the comments. (Looking in the $150 range).
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Daring Bakers December- Chocolate Yule Log (Buche de Noel)

Phew! *Wipes sweat off her brow*. That was tough, and involved quite a few unwarranted jokes at my expense. In fact, a certain someone in my life was known to comment “Wow! That’s going to look the same going in as coming out.” *Pout* Of course, he was also the same person to comment the [...]