Author: Kathie Lapcevic

This pumpkin spice bundt cake is one I make all fall and winter long. Simple, flavorful, and moist, it’s easy enough for a quiet weeknight at home and sturdy enough to bring to a potluck or give as a birthday gift. The coffee glaze is a favorite around here, especially for the pumpkin spice latte…

This old-fashioned raisin spice cake was inspired by a vintage cookbook, an abundance of eggs, and a chilly day that called for an afternoon of baking. It’s a tender and moist cake that keeps well on the counter for a few days and can easily serve as the base for fruit sauces, ice cream, whipped…

Apple pie is one of my favorite desserts. When apples are coming off our tree in the fall, I make plenty but come winter, fresh apples are long gone. Over the years I’ve canned apple pie filling, baked pies with applesauce and apple butter, but lately I’ve been experimenting with something a little different: making…

Some recipes are more than instructions on a card. They’re stories, and memories, and something that gets quietly handed from one person to the next without much fanfare. An afternoon of flour on the counter and someone showing you how. I met John Browning at the Land to Hand Pie Auction here in Montana. We…

There’s a vintage cookbook on my shelf that I’ve been cooking my way through slowly — the kind with no glossy photos and recipes that assume you already know a few things. This fruit and nut cookie came from those pages, and I’ve been making my own version of it ever since. My version almost…

There’s something quite wonderful about recipes that come from another era, our grandmothers, their grandmothers — the ones written on index cards in someone’s careful handwriting, or tucked into the back pages of a church cookbook held together with a rubber band. Chocolate potato cookies are that kind of recipe. They use pantry staples, a…