All-natural recipes and baking tips for home bakers
The silkiest texture, moist and with a slight tang of buttermilk, this White Velvet Cake is perfect with an all-natural strawberry buttercream made with fresh strawberries (and one secret ingredient.) Includes both regular and high-altitude versions.
Living at high-altitude? Then you know how difficult it can be to adjust your baking. This quick, concise article will help.
This St. Patrick’s Day staple has suffered greatly at the hands of the crock pot. Boiling the meat for hours may make it tender, but crock pot corned beef can also turn to mush. This recipe uses the oven for a gentler braise, retaining the basic texture of the meat, while tenderizing it, too.
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 …
An easy London Broil recipe for the oven! You’ll love the results. I hate waste. To me, waste represents the absolute worst thing we can do to the environment. After all the work of production, all the energy that’s been used in creating something to eat or wear or use . . . to then see it thrown away is just a terrible shame. That’s …
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. I am very proud of my Volga-Deutsch heritage. Frankly, it distresses me when I …
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 Illustrated Read the Best Cooking …
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.
