Baking is therapy for me. The graduate school semester ended and I started baking. (These all left our house to go to new neighbors and co-workers!) Let us know where your Wordless Wednesday post is ... Want to guess what kind of cookies? Leave us a comment and … [Read more...]
The Daring Baker: Armenian Nutmeg Cake
The Daring Bakers’ April 2012 challenge, hosted by Jason at Daily Candor, were two Armenian standards: nazook and nutmeg cake. Nazook is a layered yeasted dough pastry with a sweet filling, and nutmeg cake is a fragrant, nutty coffee-style cake. Jason described the Armenain … [Read more...]
Friday Favorite: Reynolds Parchment Paper
Friday Favorites is another almost weekly feature here at Simply Budgeted. The whole point of this feature is to share some of our favorite finds. Anything is game. Food. Cleaning supplies. Kid stuff. Garden favorites. Recipes. Anything that I really like and want to randomly … [Read more...]
Bake Pop
Description ... Bake Pops™ are the latest sensation and now you can make these delicious treats in your own home! It's so easy! Just fill the specially designed Bake Pop™ pan with ANY cake mix, put on the custom lid and POP it in the oven. Before you know it, you'll have 18 … [Read more...]
The Daring Baker: Quick Bread
The Daring Bakers’ February 2012 host was – Lis! Lisa stepped in last minute and challenged us to create a quick bread we could call our own. She supplied us with a base recipe and shared some recipes she loves from various websites and encouraged us to build upon them and create … [Read more...]
Pin It Tuesday #Pinterest – Super Bowl Party Food
Are you addicted to Pinterest like I am? I have to pull myself away so I was excited to see this meme! Want more details? Find them here: These pins are from my Super Bowl Ideas board! While they may not be vegan super bowl foods we are eating this year, they look really yummy … [Read more...]
Pin It Tuesday #Pinterest – Vegan Baking
Are you addicted to Pinterest like I am? I have to pull myself away so I was excited to see this meme! Want more details? Find them here: This week's pins come off my Vegan board. I started looking up vegan baking ideas since we will eat Vegan next week. (This week is Vegan … [Read more...]
Piece of Cake
Piece of Cake!: One-Bowl, No-Fuss, From-Scratch Cakes Details ... One-bowl cakes are the forgotten gems in the world of home baking. Many home bakers believe there are only two options for making cakes at home: 1) commercial cake mixes, or 2) complicated, multi-step … [Read more...]
Betty Crocker Cookbook
Details ... America's most trusted cookbook is better than ever!Representing its most thorough revision ever, the Betty Crocker Cookbook, 11th Edition includes hundreds of new recipes, three new chapters, and icons that showcase how we cook today—faster, healthier, and … [Read more...]
The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap: Orange Pecan Cookies
This year we participated in The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. We aren't really food bloggers in that we don't only blog about food but we do loving sharing our recipes and this was a great excuse to make a new cookie. We decided to look through my grandma's cookbook. We found … [Read more...]
Hodgson Mill’s ‘Have a Grain Holiday’ Recipe Contest: Glazed Banana Bread
Beth has an addiction to making banana bread. We blame it on her mom who also has this same addiction. Of course, she then blames it on her mom (see a pattern here?!) "Grandma's Banana Bread" is a common item seen coming out of our oven around here. Over the years, both Beth and … [Read more...]
Hodgson Mill Giveaway
We are excited to giveaway a $25 Hodgson Mill gift certificate to their online store! We were asked to participate in the Have a Grain Holiday’ Recipe Contest that is happening right now. Our yummy, flour-ly creation was just posted ... check out the Glazed Banana Bread … [Read more...]
Friday Favorite: Sil-pin Bakers Rolling Pin
Friday Favorites is another almost weekly feature here at Simply Budgeted. The whole point of this feature is to share some of our favorite finds. Anything is game. Food. Cleaning supplies. Kid stuff. Garden favorites. Recipes. Anything that I really like and want to randomly … [Read more...]
The Daring Baker: Sans Rival
Catherine of Munchie Musings was our November Daring Bakers’ host and she challenged us to make a traditional Filipino dessert – the delicious Sans Rival cake! And for those of us who wanted to try an additional Filipino dessert, Catherine also gave us a bonus recipe for Bibingka … [Read more...]
Friday Favorites: Top Secret Recipe (TV Show)
Friday Favorites is another almost weekly feature here at Simply Budgeted. The whole point of this feature is to share some of our favorite finds. Anything is game. Food. Cleaning supplies. Kid stuff. Garden favorites. Recipes. Anything that I really like and want to randomly … [Read more...]