TWD: BWJ Nectarine Upside-Down Chiffon Cake

Tuesdays with Dorie recipe for this week is Nectarine Upside-down Chiffon Cake. I looked over the recipe a week ago, read some of the other baker’s comments here, and then promptly became disinterested.  I can’t tell you for sure why I wasn’t excited about this recipe but maybe it is because the recipe alone takes … Read more

Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake with Praline Frosting

Last September when I received my copy of Southern Living magazine, the cover photo was their Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake.  I loved the look of the cake and any fresh apple cake sounds wonderful to me.  However, I was on my way to cruise the northern Atlantic for my 20th wedding anniversary and the … Read more

My Caramel Pecan Pie

What do you think about caramel?  The taste, slightly sweet, very rich, gooey? Truth is, I can get obsessed about caramel with just the slightest encouragement.  There are the Sweet and Salty Chocolate Caramel Bars, and Banoffee Pie just for starters! As you already know I am a BIG fan of Turbinado sugar, also known … Read more

Weekend RoundUP August 25, 2012

I love fall and it is quickly finding its way across the country.  In my neck of the woods the temperatures are falling at night into the low 60’s.  How glorious for the inner child in me, who continues to regularly play with matches 🙂  And while my menopausal mind longs for the coolness of … Read more