Recipe: Whoopie Chais (or Chai Whoopie Pies)

Recipe: Whoopie Chais (or Chai Whoopie Pies)

When I was making tandoori-style chicken sandwiches the other night, I kept thinking it would be nice to have some chai cookies to go along with it. I had just been over to Rebecca Johnson’s house for a tea party—a chai tea party, because she is the founder of Chaibecca, a boutique chai company...

Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe

Flourless Chocolate Cake Recipe

Whew! It’s been a whirlwind week of travel for me—which is why this post is a little late in coming! Last week, I told you about a dinner party I held at which each course of the meal corresponded to a course I took from a local shop!  We did a cheese course and...

Low-Sugar Carrot Cupcakes

Low-Sugar Carrot Cupcakes

I wanted my little one to have the joy of a birthday cupcake—without the sugar crash. So I concocted these low-sugar carrot cake cupcakes for her first birthday party from a muffin recipe. They were a big hit with little people and big people alike!

Recipe: Laughing Lemon Sponge Pie

Recipe: Laughing Lemon Sponge Pie

The name of this website, Laughing Lemon Pie, comes from a cooking mishap that has become the stuff of legend in my family. Many years ago, my grandmother made a lemon pie for the family, but something must have gone slightly awry in the kitchen, because as the pie was served, everyone noticed immediately...

Use it or Lose it: Apple Pie Ice Cream

Use it or Lose it: Apple Pie Ice Cream

I have something very shameful to admit. I bought an ice cream machine in October and only finally put it to use last week.  It had been sitting in my garage, lonely and unused, all that time. But when I finally did use it—well, it was definitely worth the wait! About two weeks ago,...

Christmast Foodie No. 10: Caramel Cracker Crack

Oh, people.  I wish I could tell you that I had a cute and festive name for this treat. Like, “Crunchy Caramel Crackers” or “Holiday Cracker Caramel Crunch.” But I’m the sort of gal that likes to call a duck a duck.  So this is called Caramel Cracker Crack. (Actually, the original name was...

Christmas Foodie No. 9: Gingerbread Biscotti

Christmas Foodie No. 9: Gingerbread Biscotti

It’s that time!  We’re getting close enough to Christmas that we can start making baked goods—ones that keep well, of course—as we finish prepping our food gifts! I have had great luck giving gingerbread biscotti as a food gift.  It makes an easy remembrance for groups of people, like coworkers, neighbors, etc.  A few pieces in...

Christmas Foodie No. 6: Gingies

Christmas Foodie No. 6: Gingies

Six weeks to Christmas and I’m making Christmas cookies. I swear, I’m not as insane as I look. It just isn’t Christmas to me until I have a batch of my grandmother’s Gingies in the oven.  When I was small, we would get boxes of them in the mail, along with beautiful winter oranges,...