Me, my mother and my sister LOVE chocolate. The richer the better. Dad on the other hand always prefer to be on the lighter side of things when it comes to our beloved cocoa bean. When I originally got my hands on Grandma’s (Dad’s mom) recipes it dawned on me why my Dad might have…
Category: Desserts
Soft Centered Chocolate Fondants
So! The day has arrived! I have officially enrolled myself into this culinary cookbook class (aka I am committed to cooking my way through it!) For those that are just arriving — I have recently received the Le Cordon Bleu Pastry School Cookbook! To further my culinary endeavors I am slowly cooking my way through…
Whiskey Cake
Fun fact: bundt cakes were all the rage in the late 60s and early 70s. You know how I know this? Because Grandma Dinsmore (my dad’s mom) has about 20 different bundt cake recipes. When Dad and I were talking about this recipe the other day he recalled how often his mom would make bundt…
Auntie Agnes’s Famous Doughnuts
There is a saying out there that goes something like, “the fastest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach“. For James (my husband), it is more like the fastest way to his heart was presenting him with a box of doughnuts. But now that I make them? Let’s just say I have him…
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
So Grandma must have LOVED coffee cake because I have over 10 recipes I will eventually be trying! I thought I’d start off with a classic, and personally my favorite kind of coffee cake. This has your traditional cinnamon sugar flavoring and is SUPER moist. Ingredients (Cake): 1/4 lb of butter (aka 1 stick) 1…
Grandma’s Sugar Cookies
Ingredients (Cookies): 1 cup of butter (2 sticks) 1 cup of sugar 3 egg yoks 4 Tbsp of milk Pinch of salt 3 cups of flour 1 tsp of baking soda 1 tsp of baking powder 1 tsp vanilla Ingredients (icing): 2 Tbsp of butter 2 cups of powdered sugar Milk 1 egg white 1/8…
Pistachio Bundt Cake
So this is post #1 for me. I know what you are thinking: Liv why in the world would you choose pistachio bundt cake as your first recipe?! I wanted to start with something I would never think to make. This whole journey for me is supposed to be about growth and getting to know…
I'll Leave The Kitchen Light On 