This certainly isn’t pie, and it’s not really cake either, but it’s baked in a bundt pan so I’m calling it close enough. I made this Cornbread Bundt with Savory Cheese Filling the other day for supper. Suggested use is as a side with soup or chili, but we decided to just have this with… Continue reading Baking Experiment: Cheese-filled Cornbread
After blowing off my baking experiments last month, I have some making up to do. I will probably be baking a couple of things this month. I started with a pumpkin spice cake, and use one created for use with the Haunted Mansion cake tin I got last year. I used this recipe, and did… Continue reading Baking Experiment: Pumpkin Spice Cake
A little while ago, DH and I took a week off and went on a couple shorter adventures to nearby areas. I wrote about the first one in Anniversary Adventures Part 1. Our second trip was to Lake Geneva, WI and we had a wonderful time there too! We started off with a lake cruise… Continue reading Anniversary Adventures Part 2
Last week DH and I went on two short trips to check out different areas of Wisconsin. Our first destination was Wisconsin Dells! Wisconsin Dells is an area with some lovely natural features – specifically the Wisconsin river has carved its way down through the local sandstone bedrock to create beautiful cliffs and dells. In… Continue reading Anniversary Adventures: Part 1
We finally finished another little home improvement project – our staircase. When we first moved in, it looked like this: 1970s shag carpet, which was also all over the downstairs floor. We got rid of it downstairs almost immediately, but for some reason we didn’t get it off the stairs until now. Very fortunately, the… Continue reading House Update!
As it turns out, September was a two-pie month. This month’s 2nd pie was Canadian Maple Syrup pie. We recently got quite a bit of very tasty local maple syrup, and I was clicking around the internet looking for recipes to use it in. There are quite a few recipes for Canadian Maple Syrup pie… Continue reading Baking Experiment: Canadian Maple Syrup Pie
I’ve wanted to try making hand pies (aka mini pies) for a while now, so decided to make them this month’s pie experiment. I’ve also been playing around with a caramel apple pie recipe for years, and thought it might make a good filling for my hand pies. I didn’t use one specific recipe, but… Continue reading Baking Experiment: Caramel Apple Hand Pies
This month I am doing two cakes, because August just sort of away from me. So this month – two cakes and a pie. Today’s experiment was chiffon cake. This type of cake kind of builds on the last cake experiment, which was angel food. For angel food, you separate your eggs and use only… Continue reading Baking Experiment: Chiffon Cake
One of the many cool things about Wisconsin is that is has a big long trail (1,000 miles!) that generally follow the outline of the last glaciers in Wisconsin. It does diverge in sections to include some other interesting geological features, but the main idea of it is to give hikers a chance to follow… Continue reading Ice Age Trail
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