This is a delicious yeast-based coffee cake that tastes like pastry. It’s great to serve any weekend guests and makes 2 beautiful cakes. Pastry Cake: 1/2 cup warmed water 1 Tbsp. dry yeast 1/2 cup warmed milk 2 large, beaten eggs 1/4 cup white sugar 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 Tbsp. grated orange rind [...]

This recipes creates one big, beautiful loaf or make 2 smaller loves.  It smells delicious while baking and tastes fabulous plain or slathered with cream cheese or butter. Sit back, kick your feet up and have a thick slice with your favorite beverage. We love eating it with hot tea after raking leaves. 1 1/2 [...]

While reading an old cookbook I found this recipe and the instructions were so challenging and absurd that it just begged me to rework and revise for my readers – I love older cookbooks. Here it is in an easy to understand and undertake form. Perfect snacking for an afternoon or after dinner break. 4 [...]