Someday I'm going to make croissants from scratch, I promise. It's just that the croissant-making process sounds so complicated and time-consuming and, frankly, frightening. It's so much easier to buy them all baked and ready to eat, don't you think? This recipe for cinnamon croissants is sort of a compromise. The hard part — making …
Tag Archive: cinnamon
Feb 17
Sour cream-banana toffee coffee cake
Remember when I got all excited about coffee cake last year? And I said I had a great idea for a variation on coffee cake that I just couldn't wait to make? Ten months later, here it is: Sour cream-banana toffee coffee cake!
Nov 20
Cinnamon pear upside-down cake
You know, I’ve never been much of a pear eater. I’m not sure why; I like them just fine. I just never think to buy them. A couple times a year, though, some pears arrive on my doorstep, courtesy of my homeboys Harry and David. I usually try really hard to eat them all before …
Oct 18
Apple cider doughnuts
Sep 15
Apple cake
Jul 23
Zucchini-pecan cake with cinnamon cream cheese frosting
Everyone I know keeps trying to give me zucchini. My friends. My co-workers. My mom. I imagine that if I got out more, I might even be offered zucchini by total strangers. Because for some reason, everyone who has a zucchini garden (and that’s about every third person I talk to) suddenly has more zucchini …









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