The theme this week? Sunny days. Hi friends. Welcome to this fine Sunday. I found myself watching my favorite Boston bank robbery movie (wait, too specific a category?) The Town staring Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner this week. Come for the Boston accents, stay for the bank robbers dressed as old nuns and impossible car…
I know January marks the start (rather, restart) of all of our best habits. Luckily, one of my best habits is CAKE. Around here, January has me daydreaming about all the birthday cakes I’d like to make for friends, family, and my very own birthday. There is nothing better than birthday cake – it’s a…
I’ve got birthdays on the brain this month because where there is a birthday, there is a party, and there is bound to be an epic cake. That’s my great hope for your birthday celebrations, at least. Cake is casually my life’s work… so, no pressure. I’ve decided that this start to the new year…
Hello friends! Happy Sunday and a proper HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! If you missed me last Sunday, I was pictured above – camping in the sand dunes of Padre Island with Will. We turned the back of Will’s Jeep into a kitchen because the wind was too intense to cook outside and I can…
Maybe you thought I gave all my cookie magic away in holiday cookie tins tied with glittery bows last month, but NOPE! There is literally ALWAYS cookie dough balls in my freezer so every season is cookie season. These sweet and salty peanut butter cookies are some of best and easiest. They come together with…
Friends, hello! Welcome to another morning together! I’m admittedly a little tardy with this last Sunday post of the year because I opted for more family time than computer time this week. Thank you for the grace. I wish the same for you, but glad you’re here (maybe with a hot cup of tea –…
I’d say it’s been a very steady year of recipes this 2021. We’ve baked birthday cakes. We’ve stuffed cookies with cheesecake (that one was truly ridiculous I’m sorry). We’ve celebrated some of my aunt Dede’s best recipes, and now here we are – celebrating the end of this holiday baking season with a small batch…
PEANUT BUTTER. You’re searching for it here on Joy the Baker and I love you for it – it’s no wonder we’re friends. You might recognize these Peanut Butter Cup Cookies as the peanut butter cookies that are often dotted with Hershey’s kisses. The invitation is to level up and peanut butter cup. When a…
If you’ve flipped through the latest issue of Joy the Baker Magazine, you might have noticed that I went on an Italian Christmas cookie bender. I just think there’s so much possibility in an Italian pink bakery box tied with baker’s twine and I wanted to create those possibilities for you. I couldn’t possibly pick…
Friends, hello! Happy Sunday from me to you! Just a few things before we get to our Sunday links from Kim Baldwin (they’re fantastic, but first business). Our last virtual class of the year is coming right up on Christmas Eve morning. We’re making overnight cinnamon rolls so basically, I’m trying to make your Christmas…
Friends, hello! I’m here to invite you to your next kitchen superpower: HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE DOUGHNUTS. Once you know how to make yeasted dough and fry it up, well… there’s no going back. You’ve gone and done it. You’re everyone’s favorite person come weekend brunch. In my early baking days I was obsessed with…
I’m running through the Wilson family’s greatest holiday baking hits in my kitchen, counting down the days until I spend Christmas with my family in Los Angeles. Wait… doesn’t Wilson Family’s Greatest Holiday Baking Hits sound like a great idea for a television show? Oh the butter. Oh the antics. Now, while dad is chief…
Hello friends and happy Sunday! I’ve been baking nearly nonstop this week and the true salvation has been this new pair of (rather ugly) kitchen slippers. You know those cushy kitchen mats some of us have in long-stand areas of our kitchen? These shoes are like attaching those mats to your feet. I have no…
Friends I’ve landed most certainly on my favorite snickerdoodle recipe! These are fancy pants doods! We’re stuffing them with cheesecake and not making a single apology about it. Essentially the very best sugar cookie is made even better with a surprise filling. There are few things I love more than the thick cream cheese portion…
Hello friends and happy Sunday! This weekend I found myself at Trader Joe’s doing what I usually do: finding a corner in the less crowded wine section to park my cart, roaming the aisles, filling my arms, and taking them back to said strategically placed cart. It’s a fetch-and-gather approach that I just invented a…
