How did I not know about cake mix cookies?
I bake a lot, especially cookies. My specialty is butterscotch chip. So how did I make it 30 years into my life without knowing about cake mix cookies? For anyone else who may not know, the cookies use cake mix as a base, then you mix in whatever you want – nuts, chips, candies, etc. Holy moly were they easy!
Georgia = even vegetables are fried
I live in the South, land of the fried okra, and apparently even my Chicago-born mother isn’t immune to the siren song of sizzling oil. She recently gave me some zucchini grown by her friend Dina, and suggested I prepare them with her recipe for Fried Zucchini Cakes.
Hooray for cupcakes
We had a photo shoot at work that required hundreds of cupcakes. I was among those who volunteered to do some baking. (About 400 cupcakes were made total) I wanted to do something a little different, so I piped on the icing and swirled two colors together by spooning two shades of icing into the piping bag. As long as you keep them separated as much as possible, it comes out with a nice swirl.
