RIP KitchenAid Stand Mixer. We had a good run. It was great while it lasted. The mixer, passed down to us from D's parents, died a silent death as I made these rich, buttery breakfast pretzels. I was celebrating more good graduate school news and making Dustin and his coworkers a quick treat before I left on my next trip. I felt a little...

Nothing says Christmas like eggnog. We've made our own, and now we are baking with this popular holiday drink. This Christmas morning you can drink your eggnog for breakfast as well as eat it. The bread definitely has an eggnog flavoring to it, but it's not overwhelming or overpowering, and the texture of the bread is really smooth. My...

I really love making quick breads to have for fast and easy weekday breakfasts. My favorite recently was the pumpkin cider bread I created— so moist and delicious. This recipe for apple bread from Penzeys makes your whole house smell like you are baking an apple pie, so I decided to modify the name. Whereas the pumpkin cider was light and...

Lately I have seen numerous recipes for pumpkin ale bread, but given that we just bought some pumpkin cider, I thought making pumpkin cider bread would be a fun, and slightly sweeter twist on the pumpkin ale bread. I was really impressed at how my experimentation came out. This bread was super moist, flavorful, and low-fat. I frequently get...

From pancakes to pie, I've been a little obsessed with peanut butter lately, and I hadn't made banana bread in forever, so I figured it was time to make peanut butter banana bread. But this couldn't be just any peanut butter banana bread. It had to be moist and dense, (sort-of) healthy (i.e. using whole wheat flour and no oil or butter), and...

Zucchini is one of my favorite vegetables, drizzled with a little olive oil and placed on the grill, so I've always been curious about how it would taste in baked goods. With the abundance of fresh zucchini at the market, I figured now was as good a time as any. Making a chocolate zucchini bread has been on my list of foods to make for a very...

My mom always tried to get me to eat carrot cake when I was younger, but carrots in a cake? I didn't like carrots, and I didn't want a delicious cake ruined by a gross orange vegetable, so naturally I refused to even try it. But it's really amazing how you can change to the flavor of something by adding a bunch of sugar. Now carrot cake is...

This bread is more banana than strawberry, therefore I called it banana strawberry bread. However Dustin informed me that name was wrong and it should be called strawberry banana bread, like a smoothie. We always have bananas in the house, so I'm always making banana bread. I never make the same recipe twice because there are so many good...

Labor Day has come and passed, which is supposed to mean the end of summer. But up here we are hitting the highest temperatures of the season since we moved here. Today is sunny with a high of 89. It (sort of) reminds me of home. This weather seems like Mother Nature giving me one last excuse to make a summery treat with juicy berries. I’ve...