Tall and Creamy Cheesecake - Tuesdays with Dorie
on Dec 31, 2008 in Tuesdays with Doire tall and creamy cheesecake For the final Tuesday of 2008 (I am a day late posting!), Anne of Anne Strawberry chose the Tall and Creamy Cheesecake recipe on pages 235-237 of Dorie Greenspan's baking book, Baking from my Home to Yours.I am not particularly fond of cheesecake and

Real Butterscotch Pudding - Tuesdays with Dorie
on Dec 22, 2008 in real butterscotch pudding tuesdays with Dorie For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie baking event, my good friend Donna of Spatulas, Corkscrews and Suitcases, has selected Real Butterscotch Pudding from Dorie Greenspan's Baking From My Home to Yours found on page 386.Great choice Donna! I love

Holiday Spiced Nuts
on Dec 22, 2008If you like pecans and almonds, you will absolutely love these Spiced Nuts! Mixed with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves, the kitchen has a wonderful scent while they are roasting in the oven. This recipe is from my good friend Maria who now, with her husb...

Family Favorite Holiday Desserts
on Dec 21, 2008 in cranberry almond lemon biscotti Sicilian Fig Cookies Fig and Walnut Biscotti dark fundge bundt cake Fig and Walnut Mini Loaves Christmas Tart Spiced Almond Biscotti italian cake I love Christmas baking! When my daughters were little girls we used to make gingerbread men and sugar cookies cutouts. The best part was decorating the cookies! Sprinkles and icing sugar were everywhere but nevertheless we had fun! For Christmas, I...

Buttery Jam Cookies - Tuesdays with Dorie
on Dec 16, 2008 in Baking from My home to yours tuesdays with Dorie buttery jam cookies For this week's TWD Baking Event, Heather of Randomosity and the Girl she has chosen Buttery Jam Cookies on page 80 from Baking: From My Home To Yours by Dorie Greenspan.This has to be one of the easiest cookie recipes I have ever made. For the jam p

Cranberry and Almond Bundt Cakes
on Dec 14, 2008 in cranberry almond lemon biscotti nordic ware almond paste holiday gift-giving cranberry and almond bundt cakes I wrote a post about these Cranberry and Almond Bundt Cakes, a recipe from Fine Cooking magazine, about a year ago for Magazine Mondays launched by the lovely Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice. These bundt cakes are so delicious that the recipe is now...

Grandma's All Occasion Sugar Cookies - TWD
on Dec 9, 2008 in Sugar cookies lemon icing Tuesdays with Doire Ulrike of Kuchenlatein chose the Grandma’s All-Occasion Sugar Cookies Recipe on pages 146-147 of Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours. It's cookie season and the TWD are baking cookies by the dozens! When my daughters were little g