Laura Rebecca's Kitchen

Guess what? This blog was born 3 years ago today! Where did the time go? How many calories were consumed? Why has my photography only marginally improved? In any event, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with the Daring Bakers; today’s our posting date! The February 2009 challenge is hosted by […]

Do you follow Nic’s Baking Bites ? It’s filled with lots of tempting sweets and a week doesn’t go by without a post that makes me drool. Nic is especially good at recreating beloved recipes, especially Girl Scout cookies. She’s got Thin Mints, Homemade Do-Si-Dos , Homemade Tagalongs and, Shane’s favorite, Samoas. So for Valentine’s […]

This month’s challenge is brought to us by the adventurous Hilda from Saffron and Blueberry and Marion from Il en Faut Peu Pour Etre Heureux. They have chosen a French Yule Log by Flore from Florilege Gourmand. If you recall, the DBers did a yule log last year but this year’s yule log is very […]

Almost a year ago, I came upon this recipe for Chocolate Bread. Why did it take me so long to bake it? God only knows. But I finally did, and it was worth the wait. While the final product is supposed to be have a “feathery yet rich texture,” mine was denser, with a tighter […]

November 2008 Daring Bakers Challenge Author: Shuna Fish LydonRecipe Origin: Caramel Cake, the recipeDB Challenge Hosts: Dolores of Culinary Curiosity, Alex of Blondie and Brownie, and Jenny of Foray into Food with gluten-free recipe assistance from Natalie of Gluten-a-Go-Go .— It will come as no shock if I point out that two days ago was […]

I’ve decided that anything I make — be it baked, sauteed, fried, roasted — that doesn’t come out looking like something out of a Williams-Sonoma cookbook will be dubbed “rustic.” Hence, rustic Napoleons. (I should probably go back through the archives and rename 95-percent of the recipes here.) Being rustic, these Napoleons were fairly easy […]

When September rolls around, I want apples. I want to go apple picking. I want to drink apple cider. I want to eat caramel apples. I want to bake with apples. I stumbled across this recipe, which combines apples with my favorite spice, cinnamon. It’s very simple to pull together; the most complicated thing about […]

For my mom’s birthday (which is today) I offered to bake her anything she liked. Always a butter cookie lover, she requested: A butter cookie that is partially dipped in chocolate. You know, like the old fashioned delicious cookies that bakeries used to make themselves before they bought them wholesale from large commercial bakeries made […]

There are a lot of steps in making the Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream — the recipe is almost as long as the name — but it wasn’t an overly difficult cake to make. (Though getting a cake to look beautiful is difficult, and I need a lot more practice before one of my cakes […]

If you live in or around Canandaigua, Pittsford, or Geneva, NY, sign up for the Fellenz Family Farm CSA next year. (In the meantime, stop by their roadside stand right now.) The quality of produce we get is phenomenal — just last night, I toted home a large bag filled with just-picked spinach, green beans, […]