Sitting around planning the New Year's Day meal, a thought occurred, we should have pie!  Of course, we didn't plan it so we had to scrounge the cabinets to see what we had to work with. 

For those holiday leftover sandwiches I thought I would bake one of my favorite breads, pumpernickel.

I love baking bread. I, however have not yet mastered sourdough...until now, maybe. 

It is holiday cookie baking season!  I am on it!

The Challenge

I like brownies. My friends like brownies. But, my friends have developed a late in life allergy to gluten. We are getting together for the holidays soon and I, of course, want to take something. Combing through my favorite sites, I decided to use the Almond Flour Brownie recipe from King Arthur Baking. 

Do ever crave cake or cupcakes but don't need a dozen? That's where small batch baking comes in. Turning to my favorite site, dessertfortwo.com and the Small Batch Vanilla Cupcakes recipe of 4 cupcakes - perfect!  

I recently found out that November 21st is National Gingerbread Cookie Day. One of the facts I saw was that Nuremburg, Germany is the gingerbread capital of the world.  Who knew? Just in time for holiday baking practice.

It's pumpkin season, so why not make something to celebrate. I tried a Pumpkin Bread.

I love scones! Probably not a surprise. I really like cherries and I was curious about cherry and almond scones. Enter the King Arthur Baking Cherry Almond Scone Mix.