Month: September 2024

We may have cheated a bit as a “honey cruller” looks very specific but a regular French cruller, we found at Baker’s Dozen in Raleigh. They have two locations and after striking out (they didn’t have any) at the first location, we committed and drove all the way to the second. We were successful! We…

I’ve never heard of carrot pie. Numerous online searches for this confection + “Raleigh” yielded no results.

I can’t decide whether September this year is much warmer or my tolerance for the heat is very low as I can’t wait for Fall temperatures. It’s probably a combination of both, to be honest, so on a somewhat cooler Saturday we went out to downtown Raleigh for Bugfest and followed that up with an…

We’ve been many times for ice cream so this was a rather easy one. While visiting Carolina Beach, as we do a few times during the Summer, we sometimes hit up Celtic Creamery. Their gift shop is fantastic and the treats are delicious. In the freeze, they had some ice cream sandwiches! The cookie was…

On one of our trips to Carolina Beach, we made some time to drive into Wilmington where we visited, for the first time, Apple Annie’s Bake Shop. We noticed they had Cherry Almond Biscottis which makes it a great add to the Lemon Cake challenge. Apple Annie’s was a great place to pick up some…

In Lemon Cake, marshmallow twists are easy and quick to make. The image shows a tri-color confection in a shape that’s twisted — or at least, that’s what we assume based on the game image. In reality, we had to adjust this one to count is as part of our dessert challenge. No one sells…