Cucumber-looking Carrot Cake

I had a random idea to make a carrot cake that looks like a slice of cucumber...
I tried to "paint" with the cream cheese icing, but would have probably had better luck with cutouts of rolled marzipan...next time!

No Knead Bread

After my trip to Blair's Elmore Mountain Bread bakery, I wanted to try out what I hoped would be a similar type of bread. I had made some bread a few years ago that was similar, but I've since been having such luck with this:
No Knead Bread Recipe
And you can definitely play around with the ingredients- adding whole wheat flour, milled flax seed, etc. Very tasty!

Catching up from Christmas in Vermont--Gingerbread People!

Dad, Scott, and I made gingerbread people back in December using a big cookie cutter that my dad made years ago. It is always fun to see how the baking "enhances" the cookies that you build!

Elmore Mountain Bread! So good!

We were just up in Elmore, VT to visit our friend Blair's bread bakery...
What a treat to watch her and her husband Andrew in action at their wood-fired oven!

Check out their website, with lots of pictures of beautiful bread--
Elmore Mountain Bread!

Baking at 2 and 1/2!

When Scott and I were home over Christmas, we spent some time going through some of my old family photo albums! Here's a shot of me baking (probably with mom and dad!) at 2 and a 1/2!