It’s hard to describe how much I love my friends Arnold & Fabio. Their house and their hearts are always always open …

I had planned months before on making orange velvet cupcakes for Halloween and was going to improvise a recipe. Much to my …

I know I know. Disgusting, but I love me some Halloween. It’s my favorite holiday and I adore creative and disgusting Halloween …

Ever since I have been participating in the MacTweets challenges, I’m hooked on making macarons, or attempting to and I have some …

Dr. B picked up a baking book for me recently. It was basically a big hint as he loved everything in it. It’s …

When I moved to Germany I carefully culled my cookbooks to see which ones would make the jump across the pond. The …

Jamie and Deeba, those wonderful gals over at Mactweets dedicated this month’s challenge to Pink for Breast Cancer awareness month. We were …

These Italian seven layer or rainbow cookies remind me when I lived downtown in NYC. Back then (before Chinatown swallowed parts of …

This gorgeous design is by our friend Marina I made these cupcakes for a surprise birthday party for my über-talented singer friend …

After Oktoberfest, I was over drinking Radler. So, to celebrate the last of the season’s plums I made cocktails! Plum Martini 1 …

One of the fun parts of Oktoberfest is shopping for and dressing up in trachten or traditional costume, (dirndl and lederhosen.) As …

Oans, Zwoa, Drei, G’suffah…goes the Bavarian chant after you sing “Ein Prosit”with your maß (liter sized beer mug) in the air.  Then …

Continuing on the plum theme, I was inspired when I saw this recipe at Tish Boyle. I used her recipe for the choux …

This German Plum Tart has many names depending on where in Germany you live. Pflaumenkuchen in some places. In Bavaria, it’s called zwetschgendatschi. …

Fine, my mother in law made this torte for a family celebration in June and I just about fell on the floor …

This month’s Mactweet’s Challenge was Long Ago and Far Away.  Jamie and Deeba tasked us with creating a macaron inspired by a favorite childhood …

When I saw this incredible recipe for burnt honey ice cream from So Many Recipes…, I knew I had to make it. …

This was the last thing I was able to make out of my friend Trudi’s orchard in Temecula, CA before I had …

After my last post, I had a good amount of pomelo syrup left over. What to do?  Cocktails of course! Pomelo Martini …

Every time I visit California, it reminds me of how spoiled I was when I lived there from the abundance and varieties …