by Chef Susan Holtz | Oct 14, 2021 | Baking, Recipe, Stories, Trends
COVID DECLUTTERING, RASPBERRY FRITTERS, AND LAUGHING OUT LOUD! (A High-Fat-Weight Control Moment) During this past year of COVID, there were a potpourri of projects that I was going to accomplish. For example, early on, I discovered an unfinished needlepoint from...
by Chef Susan Holtz | Apr 2, 2020 | Baking, General, Healthy Baking, Stories, Uncategorized
Aunt Sally’s Four-Grain Cookies Thought that sharing a healthy cookie recipe with you would be a helpful, and a fun way of creating a family activity where kids could get into the kitchen and help with measuring and baking. The cookie recipe was given to...
by Chef Susan Holtz | Mar 26, 2020 | Baking, General, Healthy Baking, Stories, Uncategorized
National Emergency and Mom’s Maraschino Cherry Cake One can totally freak out nowadays. Shopping has become almost hazardous to your health! Taking hours to purchase items in markets Where the workers are obviously sleep deprived and overworked! Everyone seems...
by Susan Holtz | Feb 11, 2013 | Cake Art Trends, Restaurant Desserts, Stories
February is Celebrate Chocolate Month. One wonders if this is because of Valentine’s Day and its connection with giving chocolates to one’s sweetheart-or is it the other way around and the retailer’s holiday giving us another reason to buy chocolate. It does...
by Susan Holtz | Jul 29, 2010 | Stories
My first wedding cake customer was a college chum. She wanted me to do a three-tiered cake covered in edible white royal icing daisies. At the time, my sister and I shared a studio apartment. I do not remember how I managed to store six cake layers in such a small...
