Our first soap making class of 2023 will be held on Saturday, February 25 at Cedar Valley Retreat Center in West Bend, Wisconsin. See the accompanying photos or click on the link to get more info and register.
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.