I got this recipe from my friend Sarah Fioroni. Her family has a farm sitting high above the village of San Gimigiano, Italy. It's a light and easy cake batter, adorned with rows and rows of concentric circles of apple slices. The result is a stunner of a cake. I dust mine with powdered […]

This is one of my favorite go to pie pastry recipes. It’s been around a long time. I found it in an old pie book, can’t recall where but I’ve tweaked it a bit here and there over the years. So slab pie is just a pie that is baked in a sheet pan–this recipe […]

Great for snacking with bubbles for a fall party! I also use to garnish seasonal desserts.

Celebrate the season with the flavors of fall! Maple and pumpkin are muffin ingredient winners!

These sweet biscuits can be made with leftover sweet potato puree or pumpkin puree. They are great for breakfast, brunch or dessert. I sometimes split them and make little ham and boursin cheese sammies.

Delicious and easy coffee cake with lots of streusel topping

These scones are so great for breakfast or brunch or as a savory bread addition to a Southern dinner. These freeze beautifully so they work well for entertaining or for a lazy Sunday morning. Change up the cheddar and the chives with any herbs or cheese you have on hand. Smoked cheeses work especially well […]

Anyone who grew up in the sixties should remember this cake fondly. The Tunnel of Fudge Cake was a Pillsbury bake-off winner which used two Pillsbury products, a cake mix and a frosting mix–the latter of which is no longer available. This cake launched the Bundt pan craze–hardly anyone had this pan and everyone had […]

Thoughts on Pound Cake… Pound cake, for me, is one of the best classic examples of old school Southern baking.  Although its earliest written history goes back to European roots, this cake has become classically American. Originally, just as the name suggests, pound cake recipes were simply a combination of a pound each of  four […]