Chocolate Swirled Peanut Butter Brownies

From the same book as the Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Brownies, I bring you Marbled Peanut Butter Brownies. These have more of a bar cookie or traditional brownie texture. I didn’t have the nuts called for in the recipe and used some unsalted roasted peanuts. I think it would have been better [...]

A Housewarming Gift

Back when I first started my blog, it was mostly a different form of communication with some church friends and I’d post a recipe here and there. And then I started getting a lot more page views, particularly for recipes, than people I could account for, unless someone’s cat was sleeping on the keyboard [...]

Craving Chocolate — SHF #32

Domestic Goddess is again hosting Sugar High Friday and this time the theme is the dessert you crave. I was beginning to think I was going to miss out on Sugar High Friday this time due to the oven failure, but when you crave chocolate there’s always a way — even if you just [...]

You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me, Gas Oven

Eight hungry people and a baby shower to bake for. Kenny Rogers’ version no doubt had broader appeal, but I was quite frustrated when my gas oven decided it was time to go on holiday when I had *plans* for it. I was making a trial run of a new recipe for a baby [...]

Banana Cake

I made this cake for the Worship and Theology Night for our student group. I’m thankful I can bake for students, rather than having just our family (mostly me) eating all the stuff I bake!
This is a recipe that I adapted from Betty Crocker. Have you ever noticed that Betty is [...]