Featured Recipes
Home Made Fresh Fruit Pizza
With so many fresh fruits available this time of year it's just natural to combine them all onto a decadent cookie pizza the whole family will enjoy! Don't limit yourself to the fruits listed here; feel free to use mangos, huckleberries or any other that is available in your area.
Other fresh fruity recipes:
Strawberry-Blueberry Double Take Pie is a delicious open-faced pie, chock full of blueberries and strawberries - serve with a scoop of ice cream.
Stars 'n Fruit Dessert - an orange flavored cake baked in a 10x15-inch pan serves as a base for fresh fruit. Cut cake into stars or any popular shape with cookie cutters! Serve with whipped cream.
Kosher Cuisine with Marcy Goldman
A Great Slicing Cake for Summer - or not your Mother’s Bundt Cake
To me, summertime means let’s get out of the kitchen as soon as possible - or at least, do the baking earlier in the day. Even with central air conditioning, things heat up fast. But more than that, being outside to enjoy the weather is a call for informal baking, less clean-up (no one wants to spend a sunny day washing up too many dishes and bake ware), i.e. great treats one can perhaps, eat out of hand. Squares are perfect for this but I like cakes more often than not, especially for a summer BBQ summer dessert. Similarly, there are also pies and cobblers but I tend to think of those as more coffee and tea time treats. To me, a great cake is always a main event. Moreover, cakes present well, feed a crowd and have great shelf life, so that a few days later, you still have something fresh and appetizing to serve. read more . . .
Sweet, Savory, Decadent, Healthful - All occasion baking with Mani Niall
Cookie Time Again!
You would be surprised how popular cookies are at Sweet Bar Bakery. For those of us who bake---and supposedly you do, if you are reading this - cookies seem like an easy thing, a basic entry to the baking world, so common, so simple, so every day. I guess most people don’t have time anymore to make cookies, but also I flatter myself into believing that the little extra touches make the difference between a good cookie and a great cookie. With that in mind, I am sharing a few of our more popular cookies and a new addition to the repertoire, a lemon bar.. . . . read more . . .
Latin Flavors with Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack
The History of Cinco de Mayo
Growing up we never celebrated Cinco de Mayo. It was only during college that we discovered this celebration. However, if celebrating Cinco de Mayo allows us to share our music, simple recipes, and libations then we say, the more the merrier and salud to all that is muy bueno!
When one thinks of Cinco de Mayo, it’s hard not to picture colorful festivities, parades, dancing, singing, and of course delicious Mexican food. But many people fail to understand the historical significance behind the popular Mexican-American holiday; . . read more . . .
Rising to the Occasion:
Tips for Seasoning
Your Meals with Soul
with Karen Mitchell-Wilcher
A Crispy Tale
It has been said that history repeats itself. That is because every generation thinks that it is on to something... be it fashion, ideology or a cool food find!! But for those of us who have been around the block a few times we know that the story never changes ....only the characters do.
Chicken and waffles are a story that falls under the little-known black history category. Although it is impossible to confirm who originally came up with this pairing it has been rumored to date back to the kitchens of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson spent time in France and upon his return brought home a device for making waffles.. . . read more . . .
