Part II: Bless Us O Lord

My second son, Joshua, has had a girlfriend for almost two years. Gulp. I know relationships of even several years can break up, but tw...

I am loving Pinterest if for no other reason than I see a lot of recipes I would not otherwise see. This cake recipe is one of those, and ...

Faith and I made a trip to the apple orchard last weekend and we came home with a large jar of their apple butter. We all like apple b...

. My brother was in town from Maryland for his birthday this year. We usually don't see each other on our birthdays -- mine is jus...

. Last week's Solemnity of the the Annunciation had me quite whipped into a frenzy. I had not looked ahead, and halfway through the w...

. Sorry to have two chocolate recipes in a row (I know it's a real hardship for you ::wink::), but I posted the picture of the Lincol...

. If there is any ingredient which says love to my family, it is, chocolate. Like so many people today, my kids, and husband, are chocola...

  . For this past Sunday's dessert, on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, I baked this Mexican Chocolate Cake, the recipe for whic...

. Back to that list of yummy things I have made, yet not yet spoken about here. A few weeks ago I needed (yes, needed) to bake a cake. Havin...

Just in case you are a reader here, but not a reader at Catholic Cuisine , I am posting the recipe for today's feast day dessert: St....

. . Yesterday we remembered Our Blessed Mother on her feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. It has become a tradition to make a heart-shaped cake wi...

. We're back to dessert, and this one is a classic. Chocolate Mayonnaise cake is a cake made with, duh, mayonnaise, which replaces the e...

. Last week, for the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, I baked my first batch of Madeleines (the name Madeleine is the French form of Magdalene)....

You know how I am about cake. I'm a snob. A scratch cake, even an imperfect, slightly dry, fallen-in-the-middle scratch cake, is bett...

. . Yes, it's berry season! Between freezer jam, berries in salads, shortcakes, and new dessert recipes we are certainly getting our sh...

. This cake is a celebration and nothing less. It's just a slight challenge to create, a beauty to behold, and a delight to taste....

. The First Holy Communion party is over and almost all of the goodies were enjoyed; just a smidge of cake is left, but I took a picture ...

. This year's St. George dragon is, honest to goodness, a twenty minute dragon, not counting shopping and bake time. I simply ran out of...

. A friend of mine once gave me a Yankee Trader candle called " Buttercream Frosting." I finally had to get rid of it because eve...