My delicious butter bars are like a giant, thick, butter or sugar cookie that is soft and gooey on the inside.  My recipe is a variation on a recipe I read in Anne Byrn’s The Cake Mix Doctor.  Anne Byrn (or The Cake Mix Doctor) calls her recipe Gooey Butter Cake.  I tried it [...]

I am so lucky to have so many fabulous people in my life, so this year I had multiple Thanksgiving meals!  My first meal was more of a Thanksgiving lunch or early Thanksgiving dinner (a brilliant idea so that you have many hours to digest all of the food before going to sleep!), and was [...]

I recently got the fabulous book “More From Magnolia: Recipes from the World-Famous Bakery and Allysa Torey’s Home Kitchen.”  It is the second Magnolia’s Bakery cookbook, and so far I am loving it.  My first impression of the book was that the recipes looked very simple, but like many others have noted, the book severely [...]