The Cupcake Avenger

The mention of Shoofly Pie, like apple butter , is usually something that results in raised eyebrows from those who haven't spent much...

Recently, one of my absolute favorite food bloggers Smitten Kitchen posted about getting back to basics, and allowing simple flavors to ...

If you've never experienced the joy of sour cherry season, you're not alone. Available for few brief blink-and-you'll-miss-th...

Apple butter has always held a special place in my heart. And, yes, I realize how completely weird it is to be sentimental about spiced frui...

I'm no longer in denial that my love of pie has recently been gaining on my love of cupcakes. Unsurprisingly, I think this is because I ...

If you have the Martha Stewart Pies and Tarts tome that was released this past spring, you may recognize this as the Gingerbread Raspberry...

Whereas in my last post I went out on a limb to try Eggnog Scones, a treat that brought together a couple of the flavors that I usually disl...

Even though summer won't officially be here for another week, it's been hotter than hot recently here in DC and that calls for chill...

I think my recent trip to the Dangerously Delicious pie truck may have subliminally influenced me more than I realized, because I was defini...

I won't say I was the first person to claim pie could be "the next cupcake," but let's just say I was one of the first ...

I'm a big fan of pie. Homey and unpretentious, pie is difficult to mess up and always comforting. In terms of flavor choices and indiv...

Sometimes I get carried away. I'll be the first to admit that this pie is pretty much over the top. But in honor of National Pie Day (Ja...

So I've decided to ease into my "spicy" fall recipe extravaganza slowly by starting with a reci pe that highlights just a sing...