This silky White Velvet Cake is perfect with an all-natural strawberry buttercream made with fresh strawberries. Reg. and High Altitude.
White Velvet Cake With Strawberry Buttercream

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This silky White Velvet Cake is perfect with an all-natural strawberry buttercream made with fresh strawberries. Reg. and High Altitude.
If you want high-rising, soft fluffy whole wheat bread from your bread machine, don’t follow the instructions. Use these instead.
If you’ve got an egg and some hefty bread, you can whip up a quick, delicious breakfast in your toaster oven with a minimum of fuss and mess. This Baked French Toast recipe is perfect for your toaster oven, producing four slices of crispy, not soggy, French toast in about 15 minutes. This technique can also be used in your regular oven when you need …
If you’ve never had a bierock (we pronounce it BEER-OCK in Kansas where I grew up), you are really missing a treat. This authentic Kansas Bierocks Recipe using ground beef comes from Ellis, Kansas, center of the Germans-from-Russia (Volga-Deutsch) settlements that sprung up all over Kansas and Nebraska in the 1870s. The Volga-Deutsch Heritage I am very proud of my Volga-Deutsch heritage. Frankly, it distresses …
Regular and High-Altitude Recipes Included. When a recipe is practically perfect, I don’t mess with it, and this one is. The only thing I added is a high-altitude Boston Cream Pie version for my mountain friends. Otherwise, this is the tried-and-true Wicked Good Boston Cream Pie recipe tested by Cook’s Illustrated (a fine publication, and highly recommended.) Read the Best Cooking Magazine Ever – Cook’s …
Soft and full of spices with a gooey caramel nut topping, these caramel pecan rolls are the perfect accompaniment to your morning coffee.
Deep, dark, decadent chocolate brownies are a treat for the whole family, and this recipe makes it easy. My Easy Homemade Brownies use unsweetened 100% cacao, along with some white chocolate to even things out. Brownies are one of the first things I learned to bake as a kid, partly because the ingredients are almost always in the house. Eggs, flour, chocolate, sugar and salt, …
Soft, chewy and full of flavor, potato bread is one of my favorites. But I’d never been able to successfully pull it off in my bread machine . . . until now. This loaf is soft, but substantial, chewy and not the least bit crumbly. Cutting into that first piece was a delight! You’ll love it.
A fine white cake flavored with white chocolate, pecans and coconut. Regular and high-altitude directions.
Air Fryer Roasted Potatoes. Crispy skin, soft, creamy middles. Ready in about 15 minutes. Potatoes have been a staple in my life since . . . well, since before I can remember. As a toddler, Mom would be slicing up a bagful and would hand us a piece of raw potato to munch on. Then into the cast-iron skillet they would go, browning in bacon …