Blue Ridge Baker

Over the last few weeks - months, really - I've missed several TWD recipes that I was really looking forward to making. As I get the cha...

Growing up, I used to snack on the rhubarb that grew plentifully in my Iowa backyard. I had quite the affinity for sour things back then, an...

Ever since I got the book Good to the Grain - from which I baked these cookies last week - I haven't been able to get this cake out of...

I know I'm a little late posting this cake - it was the TWD pick from last week - but I was at the beach, so I didn't get a chance ...

It is so exciting to discover delicious new treats. Until recently, my only frame of reference for a babka was a vague recollection of a Sei...

I grew up in a small town in southeast Iowa, a mere 5 hour drive from St. Louis, a city I visited several times over the years. Why then, ha...

Upside down cakes have got to be one of the greatest categories of baked goods. I mean, what is not to like about a cake that has a caramel-...

I've been on the search for the perfect chocolate cake. Though I love chocolate in just about all forms, chocolate cake isn't usuall...

You my recall I made a lemon pound cake a week or so ago, and I wasn't so hot on it. It wasn't lemony enough, and was just generall...

There was a time when I would have turned up my nose at this baked treat, simply because it is a cake. Even the chocolate wouldn't have ...