Making Life Delicious: The Pie Life Blog

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Toasted Pecans

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Toasted Pecans

Heather Sheire

For many years, on my husband’s birthday, I baked a chocolate cake.  It was different every time because he never liked any of them.  He liked chocolate cake, just not...

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Toasted Pecans

Heather Sheire

For many years, on my husband’s birthday, I baked a chocolate cake.  It was different every time because he never liked any of them.  He liked chocolate cake, just not...

Cranberry Walnut Crumb Bars

Cranberry Walnut Crumb Bars

Heather Sheire

Ever since I made cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking about how to use those same flavors in a dessert.  Tremendously sour in their raw state, cranberries reveal a...

Cranberry Walnut Crumb Bars

Heather Sheire

Ever since I made cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking about how to use those same flavors in a dessert.  Tremendously sour in their raw state, cranberries reveal a...

A Northwest Girl’s Blackberry Pie

A Northwest Girl’s Blackberry Pie

Heather Sheire

As a native Pacific-Northwest-kind-of-girl, it’s a part of my Holiday traditions to bake a blackberry pie.  Picking the wild berries with my father back in Washington State is one of...

A Northwest Girl’s Blackberry Pie

Heather Sheire

As a native Pacific-Northwest-kind-of-girl, it’s a part of my Holiday traditions to bake a blackberry pie.  Picking the wild berries with my father back in Washington State is one of...

New York Times 40-hour Chocolate Chip Cookies

New York Times 40-hour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Heather Sheire

Chocolate chip cookies are very serious business. I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I have been tinkering with for many years.  It’s one of my signature desserts and...

New York Times 40-hour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Heather Sheire

Chocolate chip cookies are very serious business. I have a chocolate chip cookie recipe that I have been tinkering with for many years.  It’s one of my signature desserts and...

French Cheese Puffs aka Gougères aka Pâte à Choux

French Cheese Puffs aka Gougères aka Pâte à Choux

Heather Sheire

Like little bite-size popovers, these light and cheesy snacks are just fun to eat! Gougères make a warm and comforting appetizer or snack, but I also like to serve them...

French Cheese Puffs aka Gougères aka Pâte à Choux

Heather Sheire

Like little bite-size popovers, these light and cheesy snacks are just fun to eat! Gougères make a warm and comforting appetizer or snack, but I also like to serve them...

Thanksgiving in a Pie

Thanksgiving in a Pie

Heather Sheire

This is such a beautifully classic idea, I’m amazed that I’ve never run across it before.  The weekend before Thanksgiving, my family of four took a road trip to Montclair,...

Thanksgiving in a Pie

Heather Sheire

This is such a beautifully classic idea, I’m amazed that I’ve never run across it before.  The weekend before Thanksgiving, my family of four took a road trip to Montclair,...