Salted Caramel Cupcakes

Salted caramel + cream cheese frosting + dark chocolate cupcakes to celebrate a lovely lady's birthday earlier this week. Happy birthday, Liz!

Cream Puffs

Cream puffs with chocolate ...does that make them mini eclairs?

Carrot Cupcakes

For Rei: raisin-free carrot cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

and topped with carrot hearts!

Holiday Baking

I was a busy baker during the holidays, but not so with the blogging...

Rum-soaked raisins, apricots, cranberries...

...to make Panettone, my mom's favorite bread (recipe from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day)

Blueberry coffee cake (recipe from The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book)

Cranberry apple butter jam cookies (I used a shortbread cookie recipe with a quick cranberry apple butter reduction for the filling) (photo: Jessica)

Maple pecan oatmeal scones with a maple syrup glaze (photo: Jessica)

Cream scones with dried cranberries, made by my sister Jessica (photo: Jessica)
(both scone recipes are from The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book)