Category: Lemon Cake

As we get closer to the end, the hunt becomes harder. Chocolate eclairs are definitely out there and available, but if you arrive at a bakery too late in the day, they won’t have any left. Let’s face it: they are delicious. After trying a few times to get some from Amitie Macarons, we had…

Chocolate chip cookies are easy to find — sort of.

Raisin bread was surprisingly easy to make.

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…