Author: Julia

Here’s a snapshot on our wedding day, 1987.I was totally rockin’ the Princess Diana look. Today seemed as good a day as any to fire up the test kitchen in search of the perfect...

  Family photo…most of the primary dry ingredients I use in baking (of course Mascarpone is an exception in this snapshot and the shelf-stable whipping cream has a six-month longevity).   When I started...

Yesterday while writing a new blog post, I was busy…..baking cupcakes.  This is evidence that I’m growing as a baker.  I can do two things at the same time as long as one thing...

Gently, I tip-toed into the waters of cupcakery by baking and constructing a two-tier cake for a church event.  I don’t think ‘gentle’ and ‘two-tiers’ go together – but, that’s how it felt.  Anyway, the reason...

I started baking because I was depressed. In the six months leading up to baking as a full-contact sport…I left my American Red Cross Volunteer position of two years (I loved this job), our...