NCAA games = me baking more.

I'm not a fan of basketball, especially on television. Honestly, it's the sound of the squeaking sneakers.

I decided to bake a bit today and tomorrow while T watches the games.

Today I made Millionaire's shortbread, a recipe I found on this fantastic blog, Piece of Cake: Freshly Baked Stories, Recipes and Photos. The author, Shauna, always has wonderful recipes and photographs. Her writing style is lovely and I always laugh while reading her latest posts. You can get the recipe from the link. Below are some photographs. It's a delicious dessert. I actually made it for T to take to his friend's house to have while watching today's games.

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig (Happy St. Patrick's Day)!

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day I tried a new recipe for Shepard's pie. I found this one on the Weight Watcher's website. It's wonderful and satisfying, you wouldn't know it's low fat or low calorie at all. It's made with lean ground turkey. It's wonderful!

Whew! What a week and a birthday.

This week at work has been stressful. Ugh.

Nothing makes me feel better than baking. I wanted to whip something up quickly and was thumbing through one of my Weight Watchers cookbooks and came upon a recipe for Triple Chocolate Brownie Thins. The are rich but not heavy and one is just enough!





Monday was my birthday. I am so lucky to have the people I do in my life. I am incredible grateful for their generosity. T's parents sent me an extra mixer bowl for my KitchenAid Professional 600 Series six quart mixer as well as a scraper blade paddle attachment. They also sent me nine ramekins! eeeeee! I'm so excited to use them!




T gave me this beauty. Am I lucky or what? I've been snapping away and actually have a shoot this Saturday! I'm excited to get back at it!



Happy baking!

Chocolate Chip Pan Cookies.

I needed to whip up something quick tonight because we are having a dinner guest. I had everything for chocolate chip cookies. When I really thought about it, I couldn't remember ever making plain chocolate chip cookies. I've always thrown in something else to jazz them up. Tonight I decided to make chocolate chip pan cookies (the extra baking time gave me time to finish up things for dinner and general tidying around the house).

Yummy! Why haven't I made these before? So simple and delicious! (Recipe from Toll House.)

Valentine's Day baking spree.

On Valentine's Day morning, I wanted to surprise T with pancakes and bacon. As often as I bake and have made waffles from scratch, I've never made pancakes from scratch. I admit, I just use Bisquick. I awoke to realize that we were out! eep!

I'm a smart girl, so I pulled out my very first cookbook, Betty Crocker Cookbook, Everything You Need to Know to Cook, 8th Edition. I have to say, they are the best pancakes I've ever had. Light and fluffy... usually pancakes sit like a brick in my tummy.


We spent the day outside and made this delicious lasagna from Ina Garten for dinner. It's so good. I've been nibbling at it all day.











Today I made cupcakes to take to work. They are Orange Glow Chiffon Cupcakes with butter cream icing. The cake recipe is from one of the cookbooks I received for Christmas and have mentioned before, Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum. It's a light spongy cake and the orange flavor is wonderful.






I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine's Day!

Super Bowl Sunday treats!

Baked onion rings from Weight Watchers - Hit The Spot cookbook. Yum!




Chocolate Chip Marble Bundt Cake from one of my favorite blogs, Piece of Cake: Freshly Baked Stories, Recipes and Photos. Great blog and a great recipe (that she adapted from Buttercake Bakery and the Los Angeles Times)!

Snickerdoodles.

I actually made these the first week of the year, but they were eaten so quickly that I didn't get a change to snap a photograph. I made them again tonight because I love how light they are and how they make the whole house smell delicious.