Brown Butter Pumpkin Cake with Whipped Icing
There have been a lot of big changes so far this month. A new school year. A new school, even! A different set of students to see each morning, a different set of teachers to get to know. A different schedule with a different commute. But there’s one big change I wasn’t totally expecting…
Maple Brown Sugar Pull-Apart Bread
This is my eleventh year teaching, but every single year one thing remains the same: the beginning of school is terrifying. And actually, the past two years have been especially hard. I don’t know why; my best guess is that when I took a year off to go to grad school, I lost my faith that I could teach. It made the beginning of last year so rocky: I just didn’t feel right in front of these kids who expected so much from me. Was I really the right teacher for them?
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Oatmeal Cream Pie Cake
The first day of school is tomorrow! By the time most of you are reading this, I’ll be up to my ears in 6th graders.
Palomas
MY FRIEND POLETT TAUGHT ME THE BEST TRICK. I’m not the best at cocktails — they seem so fiddly and require so many ingredients and then half the time they’re bitter and weird when you’re done. So I tend to stick to good ol’ champagne and orange juice. BUT Polett taught me the quickest, simplest way to make an easy Paloma and I LOVE IT and do it all the time now, so you should know it too.
Homemade Funfetti Cake
Something incredible happened in my classroom this past year, and it happened because of you. This is what happened:
