Tag: heirloom recipe

Every baker has a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, one they always go back to no matter how many other chocolate chip cookie recipes they may take for a test spin. This Chocolate Chipper Champs recipe was exactly that for my mother. I’m not sure exactly when she started...

For as long as I can remember, my mother baked. Her mother, my grandmother, was well known for her baking (particularly her wedding and anniversary cakes, but also her pies, cookies and, of course, her fudge), so you might say baking was in my mother’s blood. When my siblings...

As you know (because I may have mentioned it once or twice), apple pie is my favorite fruity dessert. But not just any apple pie, specifically THIS apple pie – Caramel Toffee Apple Pie. My mother actually started making a version of this pie (perhaps the original version, I’m...

Before we leave the holiday baking behind and enter the new year, there is one more holiday recipe I wanted to share – at least, for my family it is a holiday recipe – Magic in the Middle Cookies. There is nothing particularly festive about these cookies – no...

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned my grandmother’s old fashioned fudge (which she made for so many occasions throughout my childhood) as one of my earliest introductions to fudge. I’m sure no one is surprised to learn that it also has a place on my holiday goodie trays. I’m...

Zucchini bread is one of the first recipes I remember making entirely on my own. For as long as I can remember, my mother has always had a vegetable garden which has produced an abundance of zucchini. While there are many wonderful ways to cook and bake with zucchini,...