Breads, Cakes, and Sweet Treats

Light and Lemony Fruitcake

Light and Lemony Fruitcake

Mini sweet-tart fruitcakes make the perfect gifts. Want to be especially popular this holiday season? Want to skip all of that “what do I buy for everyone” anxiety? Want a gift that’s easy, can be prepared this weekend, and is perfect for both your boss and your...

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins

Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins

Are the kids tired of peanut butter sandwiches? Send them to school with muffins instead. Muffins have gained a bad reputation over the past few years. This reputation is well deserved – if you are talking about purchased muffins. Pick up a behemoth example from...

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Raspberry-Almond Coffee Cake

Raspberry-Almond Coffee Cake

You can never have too many raspberries, or raspberry recipes! The backyard raspberries were happily turning red, 10-20 at a time. Just the right amount to wander through the backyard garden and pop a few in my mouth. And then we had three days of 100+ temperatures....

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Best Easter Breads Round-Up

Best Easter Breads Round-Up

You are sure to find at least one recipe that will be perfect for your Easter celebration. Time is getting away from me. It's the story of my life. It's almost too late - but not quite too late - to plan our Easter bread making. I've pulled together a few of my...

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Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Make your Thanksgiving Pumpkin Bread now and freeze it for later. Thanksgiving and pumpkin bread just seem to go together. Growing up, Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday. It was the time when the whole family got together and ate delicious foods that weren't...

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Peanut Butter Banana Bread Recipe

Peanut Butter Banana Bread Recipe

November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month. Make your own moist and easy peanut butter banana bread. Peanut butter. What would we do without it? Peanut butter is so beloved that it gets not one, but two, months of distinction. March is Peanut Butter Month but November is...

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Treats for National Chocolate Day

Treats for National Chocolate Day

Brownies, more brownies, and fruitcake - oh my! It's a little late in the day for National Chocolate Day. But really, shouldn't every day be National Chocolate Day? If you have a hankering for something chocolate, at least one of these recipes will be just what your...

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Pumpkin Blueberry Muffins

Pumpkin Blueberry Muffins

How do you make a blueberry muffin even better? Add pumpkin! It's pumpkin season. Time for hay rides, apple cider, and pumpkin pie. Even though I love pumpkin, I am always hesitant to let summer go even one second early. So I was delighted to find this muffin recipe...

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Friday Round Up: Kamut Recipes

A listing of good things made from organic, whole grain Kamut®. Tangy Zaatar Bread Recipe: This is actually my recipe posted on the Mother Earth News Real Food blog.   Yummy Kamut® Flatbread found on the Kamut® International site. LOTS of Kamut® recipes to be...

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