Martha Stewart – Bakerlady

Streusel Topped Coffee Cake Muffins

January 7, 2012 2 Comments

Is it wrong to use Paula Dean cupcake holders when making a Martha Stewart recipe? I hope not. Cause if these coffee cake muffins are wrong, I don’t want to be right. Coffee cake is superb in general, but individualized servings in a sweet cupcake wrapper is just downright evil. Resistance is futile when you don’t even need utensils to indulge in this moist cake smothered inside and out with delicious streusel. [Read more…]

Butter Pecan Cookies

December 30, 2011 1 Comment

Any recipe that starts with “butter” can only be awesome. Add in pecans and you’ve hit cookie nirvana. I got turned on to the idea of making a pecan cookie last week when my friend over at Rumbly in My Tumbly made some Pecan Sandies. I always get great ideas from her and the cookies looked delicious, but they were a rolled dough and since I just made some rolled cookies a couple of days ago, I was looking for something that wouldn’t require me busting out my big red rolling-pin again. I have a Costco sized bag of pecans sitting in my baking cupboard just begging to be used and this recipe sounded just perfect. A butter filled, airy pecan delight. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Baking, Cookies Tagged With: baking, Butter, Cookies, Crumbly Dough, Martha Stewart, Pecans

Peeps

March 27, 2011 5 Comments

It’s Peeps season! Spring is here, the sun is partially out, Easter is just around the corner & the cherry trees are blooming. Which, incidentally means my poor hubby’s allergies have kicked in. Poor guy. Every grocery store has boxes and boxes of Peeps lining their featured shelves. Yellow! Pink! Purple! Bunnies & chicks…there they are with their little mournful brown eyes. Begging, seeming to plead with me “eat me, eat me!”. I found out in a recent meeting that my pastor at church LOVES Peeps. Who knew!? Somehow I figured he was too intellectually and spiritually deep a person to enjoy what is essentially puffed up sugar. Topped with more sugar. But what am I saying? Peeps are one of my favorite treats on the planet, and I’m practically a genius and I totally dig Jesus. So maybe Peeps are just the sweet of choice for those who are truly mentally gifted. Or maybe Bible reading stimulates the sugar receptors in our brains? Yeah. That must be it. 🙂 [Read more…]