Irish Brown Bread!

Or traditional Irish Soda Bread, as it is also called, is a staple of the Irish. Served with nearly every meal, it's great warm, with Irish grass-fed butter like Kerrygold, or with fresh raspberry or ginger rhubarb jam like from Ballynocken Cookery School. After returning from an...

This is where Sweet Loren's Heavenly Chocolate Chunk Cookie Dough meets a classic coconut macaroon! These cookies are really delicious if you like coconut, and really fun because the texture is unlike anything I have eaten before! They are a combo of a chewy shredded coconut filled macaroon and a...

Matzo -- who knew?! -- is really just made of flour and water. I feel a little jipped that I have had to buy it all these years, when I could have made it from scratch this whole time! I think we all have these ingredients lying around at home,...

Here's to baking up a healthier new year!

I know most of us (well, somehow I still have room...) have had our full of desserts after the holidays and new year parties. But, the new year is a great time to be inspired by new recipes, and to start incorporating...

We have all seen the craze of gluten-free. Whether your doctor recommends you adhere to a gluten-free diet or you are simply choosing to, there are tons of great GF flours out there to play with. More Americans -- about 6 percent of the population, according to the...

Although coconut oil has gained controversy over the years, it is actually one of the healthiest fats in the world for you. Coconut oil is made from pressing the mature fruits of coconut palm trees. It's very popular in tropical parts of the world, like the Philippines, where...

Salt, although only scant amounts may be called for in baking recipes, is a vital ingredient! Salt is just as important in baking as it is in savory cooking. In all baked goods, salt brings out and brightens nuanced flavors -- the nuttiness of different whole grain flours, different sweeteners,...

Desserts notoriously get a bad rap. When made with empty ingredients, I can see why. Sweets are usually high in calories; have little to no nutritional value; and just leave you wanting more.

Desserts get this bad rap because they are usually made from simple carbohydrates -- such as...