Recipes

Valerie and I share a taste for chocolate and this is also my favorite birthday cake recipe. Good quality chocolate makes a huge difference. I love the 60% cocoa dark chocolate for melt-in-your-mouth sinfulness. Don’t eat this cake too late at night, though. All the caffeine will keep you awake! This is Valerie’s favorite cake…

This one-bowl recipe makes whipping up a batch of brownies for dessert easy. Sierra’s T-shirt in Detour says, “Chocolate Heals All Wounds.” She enjoys these treats made by Wyatt’s mother. From Detour See also Tex-Mex Tuna Fajitas, inspired by Detour View my Catalog of Books Click here

I like decorating the tree with the collection of mismatched ornaments accumulated over the years, each with its own special memory. I love to bake the few special treats that have come to mean Christmas to my family—my mother-in-law’s Cinnamon Sticky Buns, my mother’s walnut bread, a variation of my mother’s Yule Log and ginger…

The first time I made this recipe, I misread two teaspoons of lemon juice as two tablespoons. I was worried about the results. But the extra tartness added something extra, and I’ve made this apple tart with the extra lemon since. Luci bakes this dessert to meet the threat to her family in Pride of…

Francine baked this almond coffeecake for Christiane in A Rose at Midnight. My family complains that I never make the same recipe twice. What can I say, I like to fiddle. I’ve made this recipe with dried cranberries or dried cherries in place of the raisins or changed the almond extract to lemon extract, the…