All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
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 …
Three elements combine to keep your cakes from falling. Find out how to adjust your recipe to produce perfect, domed layers.
Soft and full of spices with a gooey caramel nut topping, these caramel pecan rolls are the perfect accompaniment to your morning coffee.
The Week’s Best Recipes If you’re like me, you get an inbox full of recipes every week from all the websites you’ve browsed through. But do you really have time to go through all of them to sort out the wheat from the chaff? Probably not. But I do! Here’s The Week’s Best Recipes from across the web. Take a peek and see what might …
The Week’s Best Recipes If you’re like me, you get an inbox full of recipes every week from all the websites you’ve browsed through. But do you really have time to go through all of them to sort out the wheat from the chaff? Probably not. But I do! Here’s this week’s collection of The Week’s Best Recipes from across the web. Take a peek …
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, …
A bread machine is a useful tool, but it usually needs a little help to produce the best-quality loaf. Here are a number of things to look for when making adjustments to your bread machine recipes.
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.