Black Cocoa Cupcakes with Raspberry Chambord Buttercream…and a Giveaway

Black Cocoa Cupcakes with Raspberry Chambord Buttercream Recipe

In this post from September, I shared with all of you about my journey through treatment and recovery from breast cancer.  That journey humbled me and changed me in ways I will be forever grateful.  I rarely sweat the small … Continue reading




‘Intensely’ Chocolate Streusel Muffins

Chocolate Streusel Muffins Recipe

Where have I been you ask?  I’ve been living life!   When my schedule gets particularly busy, I am glad this blog is just a hobby and not a job.  If it were a job, I would have been fired … Continue reading




Salt and Pepper Sandwich Cookies

Salt & Pepper Sandwich Cookies Recipe

It was 11:30 pm and I was comfortably tucked into bed, book in hand, eyes at half mast, when suddenly the Husband enters the room and through garbled words proclaims ‘now this is a great cookie’.  A half eaten bite … Continue reading




Wellesley Fudge Cake

Wellesley Fudge Cake Recipe

Can you imagine the mayhem that would ensue in today’s world if a top college official banned sweets from the diet of its students. Unimaginable, right?  Believe it or not, in the late 1800s, that is exactly what the founder … Continue reading




Chocolate and Cara Cara Orange Quick Bread | Why I Bake

Chocolate and Cara Cara Orange Quick Bread Recipe

Like the tracks of a roller coaster, the path jigged and jagged before me.  My morning began with a retreat to the water’s edge, my own little amusement park perched high above the seashore.  Alone, in this time and space … Continue reading