I am loving this idea for simple and easy holiday entertaining – a super delicious cheese platter! I have a special love for cheese plates in restaurants so in my world this is sure to be a crowd favorite. Lay out parchment paper on a large cheese or cutting board, set out lumps of your …
Joy the Baker
It’s confession time, friends. While my obsession with sweets is well documented around these parts, I’ve suffered a lifelong aversion to marshmallows. I just can’t get on board with marshmallows despite several attempts. There is one notable exception, however. Marshmallows toasted over an open fire while camping? Now those I can do. Same thing goes …
I bookmarked this recipe for homemade vanilla extract a few months ago, but was jut reminded of it when Joy put together a little recap of her last two years of blogging as Joy the Baker. If you do any baking at all, you probably know how expensive a good quality vanilla extract is, which …
There are few things in life that make me quite as happy as delicious sweet treats. (Although admittedly, fine letterpress, dogs and a fresh pack of Pilot G2-05 pens rank right up there.) The only person I know who can rival my love for sweets is my husband who is addicted to cookies specifically. In …
I mentioned in passing last week that it’s always my job to decide on the dessert menu and bake up a spread of deliciousness for Thanksgiving dinner at my mother’s house each year. With that in mind, I spent some time this weekend rounding up ideas of things I’d like to bake and clicking through …