These Chewy Snickerdoodle Bars came together fast! It was a day I needed fast. Temperatures outside were climbing. Should have picked a cold dessert maybe? Plus, I had a trip to Costco ahead of me, and that's always time-consuming. But before I knew it, they were done! My link to the original recipe is not working, so get it from my recipe [...]
Love those layers! Do you like strawberry season as much as I do? And have you met Chef John, who posts many of his masterpieces over at AllRecipes.com? When I saw the berries on top of his Strawberry Crepe Cake, I put it on my bucket list right away. In reality, the cake contains very little fresh strawberries, but those [...]
While reading one of those long books, I decided to try my hand at a copycat Chick Fil-A Sandwich recipe. A discriminating palate at our house declared that it had that same indefinable something you can taste at your local Chick Fil-A. But can you guess what the two surprise ingredients are? Check out the recipe here. Also, we believe this recipe [...]
I'd love to the be nice lady that brings these Peanut Butter Caramel Bars to choir practice. After all, they make a big batch and I need help eating them up. At our church building, however, all things peanut are banned. And look how many peanut products we use to make these goodies. We'd all have to sneak out to the parking [...]
This week, I opened a novel with an interesting premise: a black family moves to a research institute housed in a grand old mansion, in exchange for teaching sign language to a chimpanzee. Can such a thing be done? Would you read on to find out? Well, I would. The chimp was volatile. Offer a banana and he might chuck it back at you, [...]
This has been a frantic weekend. My church friends and I hosted a large event, and we made sure it was loaded with chocolate. I mean, get a load of how many separate chocolate ingredients go into that Chocolate Bundt Cake. We served it with Cool Whip, but I just ate a piece of it here at home with no dressing-up at all it [...]
Have you seen this post in your Facebook feed? It comes up in mine All. The. Time. It's pure torture. Every week or so during the winter, we declare a Donut Day around here. I walk into the bakery and if there's one thing I want to buy, it's maple bars. Too often, they don't have them. On the other hand, too often [...]
Here at Read Fast, Eat Slow, we are celebrating Bake for Family Fun Month. And sometimes, we have to borrow the family. That’s how I got to do a baking day with the V family. When I arrived, Mom informed me that we were baking in teams, with Dad and the boys working on brownies, Mom and the girls making her famous Yummy Bars. [...]
Oh, those Super-Bloggers, the ones with the big cameras. They dangle their decadent brownies in front of us. Sometimes those brownies turn out terrible. I'm happy to report: this is not one of those times. Twix Truffle Brownies came together pretty easily, even the potentially ruinous step of spreading the "truffle" of crushed Lorna Doone cookies over the brownie layer. You will find yourself [...]
Sanding sugar! At last, a decorating option for lazy cooks! That's what I sprinkled on top of Lemon Sheet Cake.
