Tag Archives: Baking

The ultimate bread machine by Zojirushi

To borrow a phrase from Oldsmobile, the Zojirushi Home Bakery Supreme Breadmaker is not your father’s bread machine. This thing is like P Diddy, it’s got a devoted possy of bread loving moms. This bread machine has features you won’t find in lesser bread machines. You can even use it to make meatloaf and strawberry [...]

Funky chicken cup cakes

Forget fancy cupcakes, these are just silly. Silly and fun. Fun and tasty. Chicken-ey and red. What more can be said?

When the world gives you blueberries, make muffins

I was at the store the other day and found blueberries on sale; buy 1 get 2 free. How could I pass that up and more importantly, what would I do with 6 baskets of blueberries. Naturally, my mind when to blueberry muffins. These muffin accessories will inspire you to go beyond the basic blueberry [...]

Great Gifts for the Baby Boomer Chef

Great Gifts for the Baby Boomer Chef

Let’s face it. At a certain age, things become just a wee bit more difficult. The following gifts will make cooking and baking more enjoyable for the chef with a bit of patina around the edges. These are helpful items without screaming “institutional”. 1. OXO’s Angled Measuring Cups Imagine you are measuring a cup of [...]

10 Great cookbooks for Christmas

These cookbooks will inspire your friends for the full year. Some are decadent, some are classic, and some are the ones everyone want to borrow. 1. Booze cakes What more do you need to know. Everyone loves a cake that catches fire. Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked With Spirits, Wine, and Beer includes traditional Booze Cakes [...]

Bake mini-tiered wedding cakes with this special pan

This pan makes four miniature wedding cakes at once. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to make these without this pan? You’d have to bake a sheet cake, cut the tiers, frost, build, etc. With this pan you just pour, bake, frost, and then stand back and wait for the accolades. There are [...]