If y'all don't know by now, I'm here to tell you: I LOVE STRAWBERRIES. And I have some kind of physical compulsion to buy them w...

You know, when I started this blog, it was not to be Niki's Baking Triumphs or anything. It was meant to chronicle the ups and downs, th...

Halloween is, by far, my favorite holiday. I'm not sure why because I've never been big on costumes or being scared at haunted house...

I visited Puerto Rico with family and friends last year for the first time and had many foods I'd never even heard of. Some were famili...

I think about half of my baking comes from having ingredients I need to use or lose. Okay, maybe a quarter. This is one such recipe. I STI...

So, remember that aside I made in the coconut ice cream post about every time I have coconut I start wishing there was some chocolate with i...

It's that time again! Summer is upon us (a whopping upper 50s in Alaska! BREAK OUT THE SANDALS AND JEAN SHORTS!). That can only mean ...

You know, the idea to make lemon madeleines started innocently enough. I just wanted something easy to get me back into baking after a winte...

I lived in London for a few years (I'm American) and while I was there, I have to admit - and my sincerest apologies to any Brits readin...

After my last disappointing baking venture, I took a week or so off then decided to try something new. I settled on something easy but good...

I am embarrassed, of course, at my lack of updating. But trust in the fact that it's not that I've been baking up a storm and just ...

A few weeks ago, I made about 12 dozen cookies to give away to family and friends for the holidays. I made sugar (a bust), peanut butter bl...

As I mentioned in the last post , I made a chocolate pecan pie for work and didn't get to taste it. Then my mother made the same pie fo...