So simple. So comfy. Whisk: a food blog, brings us this sweet recipe for cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on toast, “toast dope” (a new phrase for me), or your latte. It’s also easy to spend some time (sipping your … Read More ...
The Gingerbread Architect Sweepstakes
Enter the Ladies Home Journal sweepstakes for your chance to win The Gingerbread Architect, by Susan Matheson and Lauren Chattman. Send your entry by December 9th. Details found here. You can also go to the Ladies Home Journal site… Read More ...
Learn to Use Cake Stencils
oooooh so pretty! Thank you to My Sweet and Saucy for bringing us inspiration in the form of cake stencils. She offers step by step photos of how she achieved this beauty you see here and leads you to … Read More ...
Make Your Own Fortune Cookies
Fortune cookies are definitely on my list of “things I want to learn how to bake.” Thank you to “The Good Mood Food Blog” for reminding me of my to-do list and inspiring me to start checking things … Read More ...
Candy Sticks for Your Thanksgiving Table
These costumed candy sticks from Martha Stewart make a perfect centerpices/favors for the kids’ table. Or the grown-ups’ table. All instructions are of course included here. Also check out Martha’s candy cornucopias. Instructions found here. 
Gorgeous Cocktails
These gorgeous cocktails from Brides.com would not only be incredible for weddings, but for any cocktail party. I’m picturing it now… a cocktail party featuring only fantastic, unique drinks like these. Sigh. If only our house would sell so we … Read More ...
Pumpkin Ideas. And entertaining, collecting, projects, French treats, chocolate, sugar….
These pumpkins are just two little id
eas of many found on the gorgeous, part-fine art, part-inspiration, part-practical site of Matthew Mead, producer, stylist, author. It’s easy to lose much time milling about this site, so nicely polished I … Read More ...
Foodie Contests! (one for kids, too)
Many, many thousands of dollars are out there for creative foodies. Win a $5,000 kitchen makeover or other incredible gift packages for the kitchen from Pilsbury with their “Make America Sweeter” contest. Enter your essay and photo of … Read More ...
The Great Cupcake Wars
After 8 weeks of testing all the cupcake shops in my home town of DC, The Washington Post Food Section just crowned the winner, Georgetown Cupcake. Ah Georgetown, my alma mater. How lovely to have had that shop opened … Read More ...
Fall Baking: Pies!
First, check out this reversible pie-top cutter by Nordic Ware, available at Sur la Table. It has leaves on one side and apples on the other. (You can also use the cut out pieces to decorate your dough).
Second, … Read More ...
Election Day Sweets
I admit it. These cupcake toppers are mine. All the instructions for the felt toppers are from my blog. Please forgive me for being so self-serving, but Election Day inspired sweets are lacking out there aside from 4th of … Read More ...
Owl Cupcakes (What a Hoot!)
OK, groan at the whatta hoot part, but not the cupcake part. So cute and clever and easy to make–with Oreos and M & Ms. The instructions are courtesy of “Ezra Pound Cake,” a wonderful foodie site by … Read More ...
Chocolate Curl Tutorial…from The Pioneer Woman
Learn how to make chocolate curls–essential for any fancy dessert–from The Pioneer Woman. The Pioneer Woman is an incredible site from a city woman turned rancher. She has recipes, cooking tips, and a home and garden section, but … Read More ...
Egg Molds for Your Bento Box
One crucial prop from “The Dogs of Babel,” a book by an alumna of my MFA program, Carolyn Parkhurst, is a hardboiled egg shaper. This garage sale find shaped eggs into squares. That tidbit has stayed with me … Read More ...
Spider Eggs and Candy Corn
The lovely, dense (as in, lots o’ recipes) blog of “The Recipe Girl” has many many many topics and links to peruse. She gives great step-by-step instructions for these scary spider eggs, as well as beautifully done … Read More ...