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How To Make Ice Cream Sandwiches At Home
Street Fair Food Week

Do ice cream sandwiches make you think of the fair? To us, they are the ultimate street food. Whether they are served from a booth at the county fair, or from the back of an ice cream truck that jus...

Cake Art and Threadless: The Threadcake Winners

Threadless, the popular t-shirt company that invites readers to submit and vote on designs, just branched out into the kitchen realm and held Threadcakes — a cake competition! They asked reade...

Recipe: Blueberry-Oat Quick Bread

It's hard to resist picking up a pint of fresh berries from the farmer's market this time of year, so why try? This quick bread recipe uses just one cup of berries to make a tender loaf that's perfect...

Mix and Match Robots: Twist And Press Cookie Cutters

Remember those books from childhood that were cut crosswise into flaps so you could mix and match characters or scenes throughout the book? You could turn over just the middle flap, or the bottom one,...

Oven-Free Baking: How To Bake Flatbread on the Stovetop

While we love fresh-baked bread, we really don't love turning on the oven and making our hot apartment even hotter! That's why this summer, we've been playing around with making flatbreads like pita a...

What Are Your Best Unusual or Exotic Cookie Recipes?
Good Questions

Q: I would love some suggestions on really creative cookies — the kinds that bring out the oohs and ahhs. Something with rosewater, or Indian spices, or something that isn't your plain old oatme...

Help! What To Do With an Over-Active Starter?
Good Questions

Q: About a month or so ago I decided my bread making skills had improved enough to try keeping a starter. I followed Alton Brown's starter recipe and put the whole thing in a mason jar in my fridge. W...

What Do You Cook When The Summer Heat Doesn't Come?

This summer has thrown us for a bit of a loop. We're used to sweating our way through June, July and August in the sweltering Chicago humidity, sticking with cold dishes as much as possible and refusi...

The Latest Sweet On a Stick: Pie Pops!

First it was cake pops, brownie pops, and cheesecake pops, then bacon and cheese pops. Now pie pops! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? It's brilliant. ...

How To Bake No-Knead Bread On the Grill

When the temperatures soar into the triple digits, and your city kitchen is hot and steamy, the last thing you want to do is bake bread. Between preheating and baking, your oven is often on for up t...

Cake Love by Warren Brown
Book Review 2009

When we first picked up this book by lawyer turned cake baker extraordinaire, Warren Brown, the title read like a cookbook for dummies. But once we opened its beautifully designed pages, it had us h...

How Do I Make Chewy Brownies?
Good Question

Q: I love brownies — chewy brownies — but whenever I make them, they turn out more like cake than like ooey gooey chewy brownies. Is there a recipe you can recommend or are there proportions in ...

Help Me Find a Reliable, Well-Priced Bread Machine
Good Question

Q: I bought a bread machine at a garage sale for a fantastic deal of only $3. Sadly, it broke last week and now I rely so heavily on it that I need a replacement fast. I want to get a reliable, but n...

Liquor To Have On Hand Even If You Don't Drink

We always seem to be the odd man (or woman rather) out at parties because we don't drink. But that doesn't mean we don't have a well stocked liquor cabinet! Why would we need it around if we aren't...

Help Me Find Lighter Alternatives to Buttercream Frosting
Good Question

Here's a good baking question from Evan. Can you help?I made the lemon cake y'all reviewed recently, and it was delicious, but five sticks of butter on one plate is more than I can handle. Fortunately...

Good Question: Looking For a Strawberry Galette Recipe

Here's a question from reader Haivan, who asks: I've been picking a lot of strawberries fresh from the local farms. Now I've got many, many jars of jam made...but how about some galette? Does anyone h...

Banana White Chocolate Toffee Cookies
Guest Post from Amy of Playing House

As a newbie in the kitchen, I have a hard time whipping up anything from scratch. If I can start with an established recipe, though, it’s easy and fun to improvise something new and tasty! I’m a d...

Quick n' Easy: Ways to Soften Butter

This weekend, we were halfway through assembling ingredients for a yellow cake when we realized that we'd forgotten to set out butter to soften. Again. We keep sticks of butter in the freezer, so set...

Cannoli Sandwich Cookies
Guest Post from Katie of goodLife {eats}

Sometimes I have crazy ideas. Crazy food ideas. Taking one thing and turning it into another. That is what happened yesterday. It was all I could think about until I was able to hit the grocery store ...

Recipe: A Whole Lotta Chocolate Cookies
Guest Post from Tasha of That's So Yummy

Ever just want a delicious cookie recipe filled with a whole lotta chocolate? Then this your lucky day because I have one here for you that is not only a chocolate cookie itself but it is stuffed wit...

Carrot Cakey Cookies
Guest Post from Sara Morris of Sprouted Kitchen

This is a recipe for ye of a well-stocked pantry. However, if you go buy all of these things, I promise you will use them up on this specific recipe. I think carrot cake is the favorite dessert option...

Weekend Cooking: Bake a Cake!

We recently realized that we tend to only bake cakes when there's a special occasion to be celebrated. Right now we're going through a stretch with no cake-worthy events on the horizon, so we thought ...

Good Question: What Can I Do With Unsalted Butter?

Here's an interesting question from Victoria. I love to use real butter in my baking, and when I shop I usually buy one salted butter, and one unsalted. But, as unsalted butter isn't as common in ingr...

Quick Tip: How to Build a Make-Shift Cooling Rack

Remember how we were gathering essential cookware for a month away from our kitchen? Well, we completely forgot about potentially needing a cooling rack and a thorough search of the cupboards in our t...

Enjoying: Animal Cookie Cutters from IKEA

This is just a note to say that we are enjoying these cookie cutters. We blogged speculatively about them in our roundup of maybe-good-things from IKEA's new catalog and then we picked them up on our ...