What’s better than a fresh, hot doughnut? Filling it with jelly.

For the Daring Cooks we stuffed grape leaves

Un-Stuffed Vegan Grape Leaves is one of those dishes that you really should make once in your life.

Pumpkin Blondies with white chocolate and butterscotch chips.

Hot Fudge Cookie Sundae: the only recipe for hot fudge sauce that I’ll use!

Iced sugar cookies for the Daring Bakers, with an unimaginatively September theme: Maple leaves.

Whimsical and fun to make, a Daring Bakers challenge from Peggy Porschens book, ‘Cookies for any occasion’.

Sugar cookies with delicate, light royal icing

The Daring Bakers make decorated sugar cookies!

Sugar cookies iced for the occasion of my friend’s newborn.

Back to school is celebrated with sugar cookies and a Daring Kitchen Challenge

tiny tiny sugar cookies

Cherry blossom sugar cookies decorated for Spring!

Decorated sugar cookies with Royal Icing

My first attempt at sugar cookies and royal icing for Daring Bakers.

Sugar and Spice Cookies – Cardamom, Lavender, Pistachio and Sprinkles.

Decorated sugar cookies in the shape of schnauzers.

f/v Northwestern Sugar Cookies

Fall sugar cookies

Creating food colours from the products we have in the pantry.

This month’s Daring Baker Challenge – sugar cookies decorated like hamburgers and a variety of other designs to represent my September.

I was the September 2010 host for the Daring Baker challenge and set the task of making decorated sugar cookies