Coconut Snow Bawl Cupcakes in Honor of all Bowl Games!

Happy New Year, Everyone...Hope you are all winners! CQ and Layla

The Poppies... The Poppies!

Happy 2010 Everyone! I rang in the New Year by delivering this cake to a happy couple that were getting married just as the ball dropped at...

Whipped Cream Cake

This is probably the most basic and simple of the cakes I've made so far. It's also a cake that everyone just gobbled up. When I l...

Apple Salad (by Mrs. Fannie Spurgeon)

Ironically, the first recipe I made, which is the first one in Mrs. Osborn's Cakes of Quality, is not a cake, but something called Apple...

Moving Forward by Looking Back

Many many years ago, just a few weeks after my little sister finally moved out of our room into her own we got into one of those pointless, ...

S'mores Cheesecake (Chocolate & Toasted Marshmallow)

Why hello, Mr. Toasty, Gooey Marshmallow...Aren't you glad you finally met Miss Chocolate Cheesecake? I was sitting around trying to thi...

The Beginning

For years, I've been fascinated with home cooking, especially baking, in the first half of the 20th century, the time right before ...