Baking Fun

While I may have never been a stellar cook (never a bad cook, but never one of those cooks people raved about) I've always loved baking. In fact, I've always fancied myself a pretty decent baker. Cookies and cakes… Mmmm. I have a fruit cake recipe that makes fruit cake haters into fruit cake lovers – that's how delicious some of my cakes are.

However, in recent years (probably in the past 10-15 years) I've actually slowed down in the baking department just because my waistline doesn't share...