My favorite summertime dessert has always been strawberry shortcake. Simple, not too heavy or overly sweet—perfect for bbqs and Fourth of July! Here I’ll show you three ways to make strawberry shortcake using my cream cheese pound cake. Recipe for that at the end of the post!     Grilled Strawberry Shortcake Give your shortcake […]

My love for baking started very young. Before I could even talk, I was in a high-chair at the kitchen counter while my Memaw made her southern family specialties—banana pudding, pineapple upside-down cake, snickerdoodles, and, one of my personal favorites, this Sock-It-To-Me Cake. It’s basically a pecan coffee cake loaded with butter flavor. And best of […]

This year, fall seemed to be even better than I remembered—unusually warm temps and mild weather, gorgeous changing colors of leaves, and LOTS of delicious apples from the orchard.  Erika Mattingly Photography met me at Garwood Orchards in my hometown of LaPorte, Indiana for an afternoon of apple picking…and my dear Mama (and baking partner-in-crime) came […]