Being flaky is a bad thing, if you’re a friend or colleague. If you are pie crust, it is an excellent thing. You can add extra flake to your crust but keeping your ingredients very cold, (cold butter, ice water, sometimes I even put the flour in the fridge) and, by substituting your ice water … Continue reading
Category Archives: vodka
In-cake-tion
If I bake a boozy cake with cupcake vodka, is it a vodka cupcake within a cupcake? Or just inside out? Cupcake. Vodka. I’ve been pouring vodka into cupcakes for some time now, but these brilliant folks over at Cupcake Vineyards have taken it to a whole new level. The cupcake is inside the vodka! … Continue reading
Brunch: like a bunny in a top hat
Like actually in a top hat, not wearing one. As cute as that would be it wouldn’t really drive home my point which is that brunch is kind of magic. I don’t care what anyone says. Brunch is a really special event. As a kid, you don’t have brunch. You have sugar coated cereal before … Continue reading