• Cookie Butter Crumb Muffins

    Cookie Butter Crumb Muffins

    This isn’t a coffee cake recipe but it is the next best thing to it. I think of it as bite size pieces of coffee cake in the form of muffins. Does it get better than that? Actually, yes considering these have the added benefit of cookie dough flavoring. Excellent! Adapted from and inspired by […]


  • Chewy Chocolate Cookies

    Chewy Chocolate Cookies

    No baker can have too many good cookie recipes and that is especially true for chocolate cookies. This chocolate cookie recipe looked particular good to me. I especially liked the embedded chocolate chunks and finishing sugar. I just knew I was going to like them. I wasn’t wrong, and I doubt you will be either. […]


  • Pumpkin Bran Muffins

    Pumpkin Bran Muffins

    Susan, my wife, picked out this pumpkin muffin recipe and I thought is more than appropiate this time of year. I had little doubt it would turn out coming from one of my favorite souces, King Arthur Flour(KAF) . Honestly, I can’t remember a KAF recipe I’ve made that wasn’t outstanding and this recipes keeps […]


  • Salted Toffee Shortbread

    Salted Toffee Shortbread

    I’ve always been a shortbread fan because who doesn’t like things made with lots of butter? No further explanation necessary. So when I saw this recipe for salted toffee shortbread, it just called out to me to make it. I wasn’t disappointed and you won’t be either. Adapted from and inspired by a recipe on […]


  • Best Pumpkin Coffee Cake

    Best Pumpkin Coffee Cake

    Everyone has their favorite time of year and mine without a doubt is fall. It has great holidays, Thanksgiving come to mind. The weather suits me perfectly, cool but sunny. Finally, I love the fall fruits, particularly pumpkins and apples. So, when I see a pumpkin recipe, particularly a coffee cake recipe, I’ve got to […]


  • Caramel Apple Bread

    Caramel Apple Bread

    When I think fall, I think apples. Applesauce, apple pie, and even apple bread and what is the easiest and quickest way to satisfy my need for a fall apple baking project? I say a quickbread recipe of course and while I’m at it, make sure it includes another of my favorite toppings, caramel sauce. […]


  • Apple Cake with Caramel Glaze

    Apple Cake with Caramel Glaze

    This recipe caught my eye for two reasons. First was because I love apples and apple pie is probably my favorite dessert of all time. Ok, this wasn’t an apple pie but the filling sounded interestingly similar to pie filling. Second, the ingredients and instructions were straight forward and simple. I like straight forward and […]


  • Apple Fritter Cake

    Apple Fritter Cake

    Please don’t tell my wife, the cardic nurse, but my favorite donut pastry is and has always been an apple fritter. I don’t have them often and they may not be healthy for you, but they sure are delicious. So, when I saw this recipe for an Apple Fritter cake, I had to give it […]


  • Triple Chip Pudding Cookies

    Triple Chip Pudding Cookies

    I’m a fan huge fan of chocolate chip cookies, even store bought ones although they certainly aren’t my first choice. So how do you improve on a basic chocolate chip cookie? Include 3 kinds of chocolate chips and make them thick and chewy by adding pudding mix. Well, I just found a recipe that knew […]


  • Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

    Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars

    This may surprise you but I find making cookies tricky. Not putting them together but baking them. Bake too long by only a little, and they’re over done. Bake too short, by not very much, and they are under done. Bar cookies, on the other hand, are much easier to decide when they’re done. And […]