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I am really not a carrot cake fan. Not at all. It's quite possible that I hold a childish resentment against it for dressing up a vegetable as dessert (I tend to look at zucchini bread with the same jaundiced eye, truth be told), but more than that, I just never had a carrot cake I liked enough to make it myself or voluntarily choose it for ...

When it's pouring raining, grim and blustery, cold and dark, and frankly dreadful outside, my idea of the perfect day is one where I'm home, warm and happy. The windows are all steamed up, I put on some good music, and I start baking. And cooking. In fact, I'm happiest if I have about 4 different things going at once.

Today is, as I have been informed, Halloween. Well, okay then. Boo. Life can be rather ghoulish-- especially now what with Presidential elections, hunger, global warming, terrorism, people who think that inserting discriminatory amendments into the California constitution is a good idea, home foreclosures, and Dancing with the Stars filling our ...

It isn’t right to torment your husband. I know this, and yet, when it comes to Banana & Vanilla Wafer Pudding (’nilla wafer puddin’ for short), I can’t help myself. It’s just so good. Yes, my husband has had months of professional French-style culinary training. Yes, he can braise, glaze and flam-baze with the ...

October is the official start of pumpkin bread season in our house. While other families wait for the December holidays to kick into gear before making this quick bread, our patience is limited. As soon as the pumpkins start appearing on porches for Halloween, everyone in my house knows pumpkin bread isn't far behind. The smell of baking bread ...

One of the best things about having an apple tree is being able to go in my own backyard to pick apples to make a cake. I have quite a weakness for apple cake, especially when the apples are crisp and sweet. So, in honor of my tree and the many apples it has bestowed upon us for apple slices, apple tarts, apple butter, and, yes, apple cakes, I'd ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Slashfood Ate, Thanksgiving When I think back on my childhood and I recall fall desserts, sweet potato pie comes to mind. Every Thanksgiving, I remember looking forward to my aunt's luscious delicious cinnamon-flavored sweet potato pie that had marshmallows melted on top. As an adult, I've come to appreciate the ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Magazines, Frying ''Fear of both fried food and the act of frying means that doughnuts are strictly outsourced,'' writes Kelly Alexander in the New York Times Magazine. But it wasn't always so. For centuries doughnuts (and crullers, and fritters, and beignets) were staples of home cooks, who weren't afraid of a ...

Having just recently returned from the UK, I am currently obsessed with a dessert that is considered, by many of my British friends and family, ''nursery food.'' I am speaking of bread and butter pudding. At it’s best, bread and butter pudding is both crispy and creamy, sweet and salty, simple and comforting, with just the right amount of butter, ...

Filed under: Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Baking, Southern States, Fall Yesterday I wrote about muscadine grapes, which include a coppery green variety known as the scuppernong. Well they've been on my mind all week. On Tuesday, I stood in a friend's mother's backyard around sundown, fending off mosquitoes as I plucked heavy handfuls of scuppernongs ...