Each year with the foliage and a return to sweater-weather, we turn to the warm, spicy flavors of fall to warm us up from head to toe. Seasonal offerings like apples, pears, cranberries, and pumpkin mix together with cinnamon, oats, nuts, and more in one seriously delicious lineup of sweet fall treats.
Earlier this year I spent some time assisting Yankee’s Senior Life and Home Editor Amy Traverso with recipe testing for our upcoming annual “cookbookazine,” and one of my favorite recipes to come out of the cookbook process was the one for these jam-filled thumbprint cookies, which I am referring to as Summer Jam-Filled Thumbprint Cookies […]
This easy homemade hot fudge sauce is so delicious, you’ll never buy store-bought again. Pour into jars for sweet and thoughtful gift.
Here are some tips from Mary Blenk: Don’t be intimidated. You have to just jump in. Enter often and don’t get discouraged. Learn from each experience. Any comment from the judges, positive or negative, is valuable. If your entry doesn’t win and you think it should have, enter it again–and again! There’s no rule against […]
Mary Blenk’s wild-blueberry pie is so good that it’s a regular prizewinner at contests around the country.
We’re nearing the final stages of putting together the new Yankee cookbook (due out in October), and I’m having a hard time letting go. Looking through our archives, I keep discovering even more recipes to test and add to the collection, but we’ll soon be in the studio with Heath Robbins and Catrine Kelty making […]
One of the things I love about baking is enjoying time in the kitchen with loved ones, so when my sister Lindsey came to spend her spring break out on the East Coast with her favorite oldest sister, we spent a lot of time in the kitchen. One of the many things we baked that […]
For her son Harold’s first birthday, Esther Foskett found a recipe in an old Farm Journal so that she could make him a birthday cake. “And then I made one for my daughter, and it’s been going ever since,” she explains. That’s 60-some-odd years of cakes. In her small, bright farmhouse kitchen in Woodstock, Connecticut, […]
Whether it’s maple season in March or the holiday season in November and December, the rich and warm taste of maple is always a welcome addition to any baking project. Paired with the easiest method of baking cookies ever, the refrigerated “slice and bake” way, these Maple Pecan Refrigerator Cookies are a perfect way to […]
Few desserts in life are as classic as the chocolate chip cookie, but despite their simple perfection, variations abound. We just can’t seem to stop fiddling with the recipe to indulge our passion for nuts, oatmeal, peanut butter, extra chocolate, dried fruit, or (my new personal favorite) coffee. Ladies and gentlemen that share my love […]
This Glazed Grapefruit Pound Cake is a dreamy choice for those of us that like flavor more than frosting.
