Ottolenghi’s Butter Cookies with Tayberry Jam Buttercream

Butter Cookies with Tayberry Buttercream Recipe

This summer has been ‘jam’ packed with travel, fun, good food and family.  So much so that I actually baked these cookies weeks ago but only now have the time to share them with all of you.  Let me back … Continue reading




Grave Robber’s Cake and a Guest Post

Grave Robber's Cake for Halloween

My incredibly talented daughter has grown to become quite a talented baker in her own right.  She continues to blow me away with her creativity and skills as an artist, baker, and all around amazing person.  I thought it was … Continue reading




Black Cocoa Bundt Cake with Butter Bourbon Glaze

Black Cocoa Bundt Cake Recipe

The months pass and I am drawn back to my kitchen and camera over and over again.  It’s been three years now, and still I find baking to be as enticing and intoxicating as ever.  Sure, there are days, many … Continue reading




Umbrian Snowflake Cookies

It was the ‘snow’ covered look of these festive cookies that stole my heart.  I felt certain that whatever surprise was hidden inside, it would be just as enticing as the powdery flakey exterior. Snowflakes rarely dance about in Southern … Continue reading




Chocolate Spice Madeleines

Chocolate Spice Madeleines Recipe

More than any other year I can remember since moving West have I longed for the Fall weather I knew growing up in Kentucky.  I want to shiver in the mornings as I slip from underneath my down comforter and … Continue reading