Every Alaska kitchen needs a blueberry muffin recipe. This is mine.
This classic fragrant muffin rises high out of the cup and is chock full of blueberries, with copious streusel topping.
Dessert
Get retro thrills from the ‘Better Than Tom Selleck’ cake
I’ve been testing sort of outrageous doctored cake mix recipes for an event coming up at the Anchorage Museum that looks at the evolution of cake recipes in Alaska. The “Better Than Tom Selleck” cake is my favorite.
For this year’s holiday feast, try a vintage tart cherry pie
My mother grew up eating cherry pie in Anchorage at Christmas time, specifically made from canned tart cherries, and I grew up with her making it for me. Here’s our recipe.
Discover these hauntingly great chocolate chip cookies ‘cockaigne’
I was on a road trip with my cousin, and came into a baggie of chocolate chip cookies made by one of her friends that were so toasty and chewy they haunted me until I tracked down the friend and asked for the recipe. She told me it came from an old edition of “Joy of Cooking” and was called “Chocolate Chip Cookies Cockaigne.”
The best rhubarb-strawberry pie, ever
Here are some Alaskan hacks to make the best rhubarb-strawberry pie, ever.
Make another peanut butter/jelly, but make it cake
Peanut butter jelly time. 🎂
Make a bunny cake, but swap box mix for a vintage carrot cake
A classic 1970s bunny cake that kids love to decorate, except it tastes delicious.
This throw-back Alaska Tang pie is a light, creamsicle cloud
I decided to re-make an old Alaska Tang pie recipe and it became the unexpected queen of the pie table
This roasted apple tart brings Parisian flavor and elegance without too much fuss
Ever since I got to visit Paris, I have been thinking about making a dessert inspired by a French apple tart called “Tarte aux Pommes Normande” with salted butter crust, dense almond filling, and roasted Honeycrisp apples.
Use roasted sugar pie pumpkin for earthy, spicy not-too-sweet bread
I used a roasted sugar pie recently to make an earthy, spicy, not-too-sweet pumpkin bread and my (rather large) family ate two warm loaves in one sitting.