This month for Cake Slice Bakers, we chose to make the Triple Lemon Chiffon Cake from Sky High: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman. Because I have a very good reason, I deviated slightly from the recipe and added strawberries. The inside is a moist lemon chiffon cake filled with tangy lemon curd and a […]

Back in 2004, the folks at Cooks’ Illustrated included a recipe for Fruit Sherbet in their May/June issue. I let the idea of that recipe simmer for almost 5 years before trying it. Before I made the Blackberry-Strawberry Sherbet, I made plain Strawberry Sherbet using that recipe as a guide. I served it last month […]

This recipe originally comes from my trusty Land o’ Lakes cookbook. They are simple, fast biscuits to make and go great with soup. Parmesan-Herb Pan Biscuitsadapted from Land o’ Lakes Ingredients:1/3 cup butter2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese2 Tbsp. chopped fresh herbs1 Tbsp. sugar3 1/2 tsp. baking powder1/2 tsp. salt1 cup milk […]

Raise your hand if you can’t wait for Winter to be over? Me, too. I couldn’t resist stocking up on berries at Sunflower Farmer’s Market over the last few weeks. They were having such a great sales on berries. (Although the strawberries left quite a bit to be desired…) Once we ate our fill, I […]

Do you like cornbread? I do. I really, really do. In fact, I’m not sure I can tell you exactly how much I love it. That’s how much I love it. I do not, however, like dry cornbread. Who does? Raise your hand. (This is not the recipe for you. Head elsewhere please.) We like […]

A few years ago, I was getting ready to make cupcakes for my son’s first birthday, when I realized I was out of white sugar. (This rarely happens.) It was either use Splenda or brown sugar. I opted for brown sugar. The result was marvelous. Since then I’ve tweaked the recipe a bit more to […]