All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are fun to make, delicious to eat, and festive for any holiday celebration. Try your own favorite jam. We like raspberry the best. 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 …
Coconut Cream Cupcakes 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. These Coconut Cream Cupcakes are all-natural and substitute coconut milk for some of the fat you would normally add with butter. I have another recipe for Old Fashioned Coconut Cake that I’ve …
Regular and High-Altitude Homemade German Chocolate Cake No cake mix, just real Homemade German Chocolate Cake. Moist and full of flavor from all-natural ingredients, this cake will be a hit with everyone. Cowboy Concierge on the Road 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 …
Wacky Cake has been around forever. It’s a cake with no eggs, so it’s perfect for the occasion. But the reason it’s survived so long is that it tastes fantastic!
Regular and High-Altitude Recipes At this moment, I’m staying indoors and away from any nasty viruses out there, and with that spare time, I’m putting together several recipes I’ve had in my queue to investigate. The first is this Best White Cake from Scratch. White cake from scratch can be a challenge. Manufacturers add all kinds of additives to make box mixes “moist”, but at …
Bailey’s Irish Coffee Cake – Everyone is familiar with Coffee Cake, right? It’s that yellow cake with brown sugar and you eat it with coffee. Well, that’s not what this is. This is cake . . . with coffee. Coffee in the cake. And throw in a little Bailey’s while you’re at it. Irish Coffee Cake. Yeah. There you go. I took a tour of …
My partner, Dwaine, has a green thumb. Sadly, it has not rubbed off on me. I may be able to keep my cooking herbs alive (with help), but he’s the one who makes the garden bloom in spring. He’s always fussing over the black raspberry bushes planted on the side of the house. We’ve harvested tons of fine black raspberries that we then freeze to …
All of my best Irish recipes together in one convenient post for you to try out and share with your friends. Soda Bread, Stew, Brisket and Cake!
And here it is: The best Old Fashioned Coconut Cake recipe. It doesn’t use white cake mix (with it’s sickly-sweet taste and gummy texture). All-natural ingredients – no artificial flavors or colors. Includes both regular and high-altitude versions. If you’re a regular visitor, you know I live in Colorado – at around 5,300 feet. Because of this, lots of cake recipes have to be adjusted …
I’ve spent a lot of time in Germany, particularly Berlin, and this version of apfelkuchen (apple cake) is very similar to what I’ve found in the bakeries there. Never too heavy on the sugar, European pastries are often sweetened naturally with fruit. Apples are very common, but you see many fruit tarts loaded with any seasonal fruit, as well as jam-filled sweet rolls or doughnuts, …