‘Intensely’ Chocolate Streusel Muffins

Chocolate Streusel Muffins Recipe

Where have I been you ask?  I’ve been living life!   When my schedule gets particularly busy, I am glad this blog is just a hobby and not a job.  If it were a job, I would have been fired … Continue reading




Vanilla Bean and Pear Jam Scones

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Vanilla Pear Jam Filled Scones Recipe

I thought I had done just about everything possible with a scone.  Sweet and savory.  Nuts, dried fruits, and herbs.  Chocolate, coffee, glazed, and filled with streusel.  However, I had never thought to make a depression in the top and … Continue reading




Salt and Pepper Sandwich Cookies

Salt & Pepper Sandwich Cookies Recipe

It was 11:30 pm and I was comfortably tucked into bed, book in hand, eyes at half mast, when suddenly the Husband enters the room and through garbled words proclaims ‘now this is a great cookie’.  A half eaten bite … Continue reading




Sesame Seed Butter Cookies

Sesame Seed Butter Cookie Recipe

One cannot argue that a butter cookie, with its most humble and demure nature, is as pleasant and welcomed on the palate as nectar on the beak of a hummingbird.  Simple and sweet.  If bread is the staff of life, … Continue reading




Wellesley Fudge Cake

Wellesley Fudge Cake Recipe

Can you imagine the mayhem that would ensue in today’s world if a top college official banned sweets from the diet of its students. Unimaginable, right?  Believe it or not, in the late 1800s, that is exactly what the founder … Continue reading