Winter Olympics Recipe: Nanaimo Bars
The Winter Olympics begin this Friday in one of our favorite cities: Vancouver, B.C. (See our food-lover's guide to Vancouver here!) In honor of the Olympics, we're bringing you a famous regional reci...
The Winter Olympics begin this Friday in one of our favorite cities: Vancouver, B.C. (See our food-lover's guide to Vancouver here!) In honor of the Olympics, we're bringing you a famous regional reci...
Are you looking for something really, really sweet for Valentine's this year? We totally love bar cookies — blondies and brownies are among our favorite treats — so when reader (and fabulo...
I'm teaching a class this evening based on the desserts in my book, The Greyston Bakery Cookbook and so this week I spent some time with the four recipes we'll be making, just for practice (it's been ...
We LOVE red velvet cake (or cupcakes!) and what better time to serve red velvet than Valentine's Day? It's approaching quickly and we wanted to provide some recipes to help you steer clear of the b...
In honor of eating a bit lighter this month we've made effort to scale back when it comes to sugar and fat. This recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery in London is packed with all the taste with far le...
Super Bowl season is a time of snacks of all sorts — sweet, salty and delicious! These Kitchen Sink Bars cover all sorts of flavors and whip up in a snap. They're great for cleaning out the pa...
It's wintertime — so, why is ice cream on the table? Well, so many winter desserts just beg for ice cream. Apple cobbler, warm pumpkin pie, dark chocolate cake. So I was really happy to find thi...
The sun is finally shining again in our corner of the world, but there's still a thick blanket of snow on the ground. So we turned to one of our favorite books, Little House in the Big Woods, and ma...
Even though eating light can often mean eating less or more healthy foods — it can also be nice to cook with less "stuff." We do a great deal of baking and quite often, we just don't feel like...
One of my favorite parts about the holiday season is making homemade gifts for friends. Ninth grade marked the beginning of this tradition, when I handed out clear bags of my simple chocolate-covered ...
Winter Solstice 2009: December 21, 12:47 PM Eastern time Do you even notice the solstice? Does this time of year make you sleepy and sad, or full of energy and good cheer? Where will you be on the lo...
This cake was hilariously disastrous. I’ll start from the beginning: I was making this cake as a test for my annual prime rib Christmas dinner with friends. Since sweets are my thing, I try to make...
Croquembouche, a spun sugar tower of cream puffs, is French for “crunch in the mouth.” Of course it’s French – who else would concoct such a perilous pile of pastries? Traditionally served at...
As if the toasted walnuts weren't enough, we decided to brown the butter in these shortbread cookies for an extra dose of nutty richness! Rosemary might sound strange in a cookie, but it adds just the...
This Christmas will be my first with homemade Christmas ornaments. Growing up, I always had the most perfect Christmas trees complete with dozens of ornaments my mother had collected from various trip...
I know I've only just arrived here at The Kitchn and I was raised to always be a polite guest, but I'm going to start this guest post out on a note that could ruffle some feathers. I'm a mug of spik...
In the past few years, our family has ‘modernized’ our Christmas feast. The whole turkey, potatoes and pie menu seems tired following on the coattails of Thanksgiving, so we try to make it more fu...
Imagine greeting your overnight guests with one of these in the morning! This is one of the many recipes we fell in love with from Baking Artisan Breads & Pastries by Ciril Hitz. They're a bit lab...
Here's a great cookie to pair with your next peppermint mocha! This is from Cookie Craft Christmas, which we reviewed earlier today. We really like this easy recipe for gingerbread houses; it's a lot ...
Take a look at these cookies. Have you ever seen a more modest, unassuming cookie? Each one is slightly misshapen and a little crooked. Well, who cares what they look like. They are wafer-thin explosi...
We still can't knock that tasty candied bacon kick we've been on lately. With the holidays near, there seems to be even more ways to put it to use, this time we paired it with chocolate fudge. It'...
Happy post-Thanksgiving! What kind of cranberry sauce did you have this year? We made a beautiful cranberry-pomegranate sauce and although it was a hit, we still had a quite a bit left over. If you ...
Food that's both savory and sweet is just fine, but being a firm believer that candied yams or sweet potatoes suffer from a severe identity crisis in this department— we're just not huge fans. ...
We were flipping through Dam Good Sweet, a new cookbook about New Orleans-style desserts, and stopped dead in our tracks when we saw this. So gorgeous! And a perfect alternative to pie for Thanksgivin...
We have been experimenting with persimmon recipes after bringing home a bagful of Fuyus from the Joshua Tree farmers' market last weekend, and we're ready to declare these baked persimmons our favorit...