Look what the Santa-fairy brought me this week! While I’ve used the disposable piping bags and the vanilla bean paste before, I’ve never had quite so much at one time until now. Im really looking forward to getting into those fruit pastes and seeing what awesome things I can make with them! They’re no Boiron…
Month: December 2013
2013 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap – My Matches!
I had some DELICIOUS cookies from my three matches; so much so that I had to make a separate post about how awesome they were! I even took some beautiful pictures of my three packages and their contents, so that I could share their goodness with everyone (as well as the bloggers doing that themselves!)…
The 2013 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!
Whew! It’s finally time to unveil my cookies for the 2013 Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap! One of my recipients self-identified as gluten-free, so I needed to find a recipe was either already gluten-free, or could be altered to accommodate this allergy. Happily, cookies are quite forgiving when using alternate baking flours, and there are…
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! A month of Christmas baking posts!
I’ve been holding off on listening to Christmas music, talking about the holidays at any length, or buying anything even close to a present, and I’ve refrained from searching out those pesky boxes and bins in the storage room that contain decorations, festive wrapping paper, and whatnot. Even though the frenzied Christmas retail festivities seem…
Out and About: Day at the OOAK (One of a Kind Christmas Craft Show and Sale)
Whew!!! What a lot of people at the OOAK today! Granted, my friend and I usually go the second week it’s open, when the hubbub has died down some, and so there aren’t lines literally out the door, snaking down the length of the football field-sized hall, and around the corner to the very end…
BirdHouse Diaries 