In the last few weeks, I haven’t been able to browse the food blog world without feeling like the girl who got picked last in gym class. Why? Because these days everyone is blogging about barbecues and picnics and homemade ice cream out on the porch at dusk. Meanwhile, Utah somehow got stuck in March.Continue Reading

There is a time for choosing the easy road. There is a time for taking the shortcut and doing things the fast way. But there is also a time for setting aside several hours to tackle something that will make you look back at all the dirtied mixing bowls in your sink, and chocolate shavingsContinue Reading

I used to be a Girl Scout. I used to be 8-year-old LaChelle, with thick glasses and outrageous bangs, all decked out in my Brownie uniform, going to troop meetings each Friday after school. I think I was a pretty good little Girl Scout. Until the dreaded annual cookie-peddling season rolled around. I wasn’t blessedContinue Reading

Let’s talk about recycling. I’m all for recycling. If something worked for you once, why not turn it around and get more use out of it? Okay, so this is actually just a sneaky way of saying that I was simply too enamored of these cookies to let it go at a single post. They’reContinue Reading

The only thing crazier than building the Eiffel Tower? Building it out of sugar. Okay, so my royal icing version was only eight inches tall. But still. . .  (By the way, click over here for the tower tutorial) This cake was chocolate on the inside. I never seem to get tired of the sameContinue Reading

Well, friends . . . We’re well into fall now, which I know because every single tree I drive past makes me want to stop and lie down under it and read Robert Frost and wait for the tip of my nose to turn red and tingly . . . or something. And also becauseContinue Reading

Time for a list. “Things I am sort of obsessed with these days” Anything written by Brandon Sanderson This licorice! Good grief people! Clean bathtubs Squishy pink baby pudge. Nom nom nom… Jeeves and Wooster. On Amazon for only $20? Temptation! Blessed peace and quiet And let’s be honest. “Dipping things in chocolate” is rightContinue Reading

The title of this post should actually be “How a Cake Broke my Heart.” I didn’t get enough time to love this cake. Or take decent photos, really, but that’s beside the point. I had just declared it finished and whipped out my camera. Then the doorbell rang, and it was time for my darlingContinue Reading

I just put my braniac pants on. I looked up the word ‘trifle’ in the dictionary. Yes I did. All the definitions pretty much said the same thing: Small, insignificant, of little value. . . Then this, sticking out like a sore thumb: English Cookery . A cold dessert of sponge cake and fruit coveredContinue Reading

Watch out, I’m getting all trendy and 21st century on you. Which is awfully pathetic, because we’re a good 10 years into the 21st century. Sugar Duchess is now on Facebook! I would be tickled pink if you hopped on over there and became a fan. Or Like. Or whatever it is you do onContinue Reading