On an Alabama "snow day," meaning it might possibly snow and so everyone goes home, I'm attempting to do my job from my couch ...

For full disclosure... Melted butter and chocolate chips erupted in my kitchen mid-afternoon one Sunday. They were supposed to combine ...

When my coworker shows the first issue of our new Vestavia Hills paper to potential advertisers, here's what happens: Flip page, flip p...

I pretty much feel like a failure as a hostess if I don't have chocolate chip cookies to serve after a lunch. They just end a meal that...

Hello, holiday baking. Hello, cute little cookies. Hello, mini chocolate chips and toffee bits, all of you that fit into teensy teaspoon-s...

It's like 70 degrees for some reason, but Santa music and commercialized holiday, to put it frankly, vomit invaded a while ago. Despite ...

Other blondie dough tastes like butter and sugar with a touch of saltiness — good but in my book is better eaten with chocolate ...

Let me start with a confession: I judge blog posts that start like this one does, with a picture of a collection of baking goods that inclu...

The latest in my chocolate chip cookie obsession: Add a heaping cup of dark chocolate M&Ms to a cup of semi-sweet chips in Chocolate Chi...

Presenting this week's iteration of the [homemade] chocolate chip cookie: the kind filled with icing a la the Great American Cookie Com...

(One of these days, I will take a break from my sweet obsession and blog about something savory. But that day is not today.) If you ever w...

These might look like ordinary brownies.  They might go into take-to-friends containers like ordinary brownies. But they are certainly not ...

It started with a doughnut in Portland. A Voodoo doughnut . A doughnut so wonderful that it became my friend Ellie's Facebook profile pi...

What's a girl to do when invited to an Auburn football-watching party when she could care less about football? Whip out some butter and ...

My brother is on his way to start a new adventure for a season of life in Jackson, Wyoming, home of those breathtaking Tetons... where he...

May is always crazy, finish-school-take-exams-go-to-parties-do-a-million-things, celebration time of year. Graduations and showers and birth...

Those who know me well know I think far too much. So when my church small group decided to make cookies to help people stay awake for six ho...

These cookies are my friend Haynes' specialty: peanut butter cookie dough stuffed with chocolate chips and peanut butter chips. In our c...

I know I should spend less time with my laptop and more time with real people. I like to rationalize that all that screen time provides fodd...

Don't go into the grocery store a few days before St. Patrick's Day. The bakery section will grab hold of you and force you to adjus...