Doughcrafter: Baking on Nights and Weekends

My son went on a band trip to Chicago, and they had some really great pizza at Gino's. I then had a pizza discussion with my office-ma...

My husband really likes Schlotzsky's sandwiches. I like baking bread, and figuring out how to make things. Naturally, he eventually wa...

With cherry topping, left, and apricot jam, right. This was a fun one! I got a huge kick out of the Lifehacker post called  Will...

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This is my take on a festive drink called Rudolph's Spritzer, originally made with fruit juices and sodas. I've captured the ...

What's this? What's it for? Add it to a cola or lemon-lime soda to make a cherry version, yummm; plus it adds fiber. It also t...

  This is currently our favorite flavor of home-made soda. I sometimes mix up a batch of "candy cherry flavor" as a separate re...

I really love a glass of eggnog around the holidays. It's a bit fussy cooking up a custard, and worst of all, it takes hours to cool. Gr...

You can make a really good lemon-lime using, no surprise, lemons and limes. However, lemons and limes vary in size and cost, they spoil, and...

I'm revisiting Soda Syrup, for a couple of reasons. The lemon-lime I had come up with was tasty, but it was too much work to make a glas...

I've been playing with carbonated beverages lately, because who wouldn't like to know how to make their own Coke; am I right? Cola, ...

Another Thanksgiving, another try at cream candy. This year, we thought we knew what we were doing. That is where we went wrong. Complacency...