All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
Here in Colorado, fall arrives early every year. By Halloween, we’re looking for the first snowflakes! It’s also the time to collect those berries off the vines in the yard. Dwaine has transplanted some black raspberry vines from house to house and this year we finally got a decent crop. With the new crop, I’ve been searching for some new black raspberry recipes, and here’s the …
Golden syrup is familiar to my UK friends, but Americans may not know of it. It’s a good substitute for over-processed corn syrup, and you can make it at home!
Looking for a way to use up some leftover berries? Or perhaps you have some frozen berries and you need a good recipe for them. Try this Easy Blackberry Crumble. Ready in an hour, and made with ingredients you probably have on hand right now. We grow our own berries and I usually have a whole shelf full of frozen berries to use at any …
Rich chocolate, filled with chocolate mousse and topped with chocolate buttercream – this cake will satisfy all your cravings! In regular and high altitude.
Looking for a really easy, healthy dessert recipe that you can whip up with the kids? Try these Whole Wheat Raspberry Bars. Dwaine and I make our own raspberry jam from raspberry bushes we have planted in our yard here in Denver. Black raspberries are our favorite, but we also have red. We take an afternoon every so often and make a batch of jam, following …
This Easy Scratch Yellow Cake perfectly displays the difference between a typical boxed mix cake and a “from-scratch” cake. Yes, you might be able to throw a box mix into the oven a tiny bit faster, but when you pull it out, you have a rather gooey, sickly sweet confection, full of artificial flavors and colors that sticks to the roof of your mouth when …
A quick and easy recipe for moist, fresh muffins, ready in 30 minutes.
Dwaine and I make our own black raspberry jam. He learned how from his mom back on the farm, where they would grow black raspberries every year, harvesting them in long-sleeve flannel shirts to keep from getting sliced to ribbons on the thorns. The family finally convinced her to submit her jam recipe to the county fair, where she won the blue ribbon for best …
It’s finally springtime here at the edge of the Colorado Rockies. And with that comes time to shift gears to something with a lighter taste. Coconut fills the bill here – especially the naturally unsweetened flakes that I find at my local Sprouts store. These Coconut Cream Cupcakes are all-natural and substitute coconut milk for some of the fat you would normally add with butter. …
Regular and High-Altitude German Chocolate Cake Recipe I spent a month in Berlin to study the German language. I’d studied it in college, but of course, over the years, I lost most of it. But I never lost my fascination with German culture and history. So I spent some time there, re-learning the language, visiting all the sites and museums, and enjoying the food! In …
