
Happy 2025! In starting the new year, I can’t help but look back on the old one and feel that it was personally both long and forgettable. Favourite activities like reviewing or baking slipped away and, by the time what I affectionately think of as “Cookie Season” came around, I had lost the gumption to even think about, let alone bake any cookie boxes. Talking it over with a friend, she encouraged me to, at the very least, bake something for myself. I had promised my daughter that we would be baking together, and what my friend suggested ended up giving me a different perspective on Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Small Batch Cookies”







Baking from a cookbook is like completing a trust fall — the home baker putting all their trust in the author. If an author has done their job well then, the home baker will come up with beautiful results. Many of us feel tentative as we look through baking books at