Growing up, Halloween was totally my favorite holiday (or sort-of holiday, really). I was like Linus, waiting all year for the Great Pumpkin to appear. I went trick-or-treating long after I really should have stopped…until I was 16!

Michelle of Bake-En selected Dorie’s Dimply Plum Cake for this week’s TWD. I’ve read about this little breakfast cake all over the place, so I was really looking forward to trying it. Unfortunately, stone fruits are not in season...

I almost forgot about this posting!  My head has been somewhere else, and the date kind of got away from me.  Oh well, here it is in all its sweet glory: the Burnt Sugar Cake for this month’s Cake Slice. A burnt sugar syrup (really a dark caramel...

Last week was kind of crappy.  First, we suffered the latest disappointment in the mulit-year saga known as “R and Stephanie vs. the NYC real estate market.”  I often wonder if owning a little place here just isn’t in the cards for us.  Then, two...

Crisps are the perfect mid-week dessert for lazybones like myself…you don’t really “make” them, you just toss them together.  Low effort but high reward– if only everything could be so easy and smell so good!  This particular Cran-Apple Crisp...

You may notice that the TWDers are not all posting the same recipe this week.  We’re able to tackle the month’s chosen recipes in any order we like, and I’ve decided to start off with Dorie’s Sugar-Topped Molasses Spice Cookies, picked by Pamela...

A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a publicist about a new cookbook called DamGoodSweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth New Orleans Style by David Guas and Raquel Pelzel.  She showed me a couple of recipes…this book is chock full...