Bake an old fashioned spice cake from a vintage recipe, then frost it with Buttermilk Buttercream laced with whiskey vanilla. Top the cake with pretty slices of dried pink apples. A treat for your Valentine.
January 6 is the Twelfth Day of Christmas and in the German tradition is celebrated with a special cake called Koenigskuchen. Here's the recipe for the rich, buttery, fruity version made in the north of Germany even today.
Making fresh, old-fashioned lemonade is easy (recipe included), but add blueberries and lavender, or lavender and mint, or raspberries and mint, and you have a party! The lemonades will dance with flavor.
We have been making soaps with maple sap for more than a decade, and since the sap is running again right now, it seems like a good time to create another soap! Read about the soaps we've known and loved in the past and give us your two cents' worth of ideas for a new soap this year.
Using simple materials such as peat pots and a little paint, you can craft pretty little cups to hold everything from potted flowers to children's Easter treats. Join us on Saturday, March 20 for a virtual crafting get-together. It'll be fun!
The chilly days of January are perfect for savoring a cup of rich, hot cocoa. Curl up with a cup made from Ann Marie's new recipe - downloadable from a link in the blog post.