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July: Zucchini Bread At my job, we have produce months. They pick four different types of produce and each week, people who want to cook it or eat it, share what they make. You can win a gift card for each week and win a grand prize for the...

June: Chocolate Chess Pie So the legend goes that the name “chess” pie came from someone hearing a Southern cook, either a freed slave or still enslaved—it’s not clear—saying “just” pie. I think I randomly tried chocolate chess pie from a store in North Carolina and I haven’t forgotten...

May: Oatmeal Cheddar Cheese Moon Pies With this recipe, all I could think about as a writer was retellings. Retellings are updated versions of classic stories or fairy tales. For example, Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. And this recipe was...

Author’s Note: This is a rewrite from the original, Selah. Nyla wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead and sighed, enjoying the shade of the mountain. The unusually hot and dry weather had slowed her down. The journey from the village to the mountain had taken an extra...

April: A Poet’s Peanut Butter Cookies  April is National Poetry Month so of course I had to bake these cookies. Jerrelle Guy wasn’t a fan of peanut butter cookies until she had a version of these at an open mic. And I have to say, these are pretty good....

March: Cake Doughnuts with Coffee Glaze I resisted the urge to make a pun with the title. It will probably appear in this post. I have been craving cake doughnuts for a while and I haven’t found a place near me that makes them. So these doughnuts satisfied my...

Sarai plugged up the drain and turned on the hot water. She grabbed the ocean-scented candle and her new, fancy arc lighter from the bookshelf in her bedroom and sauntered back to the bathroom. She lit the candle, admiring how the purple lighting created a flame, and placed it...

February:  Strawberry Balsamic Shortcakes Baking is definitely a labor of love and I had to use strawberries for love month. I knew making biscuits was going to be tricky, but I powered through. I decided to make this on Superbowl Sunday evening. Remind me not to bake on that...

January – (Not an) Easy Bake Cake with Raspberry Glaze Like some many young ladies (myself included), Jerelle got an Easy Bake oven when she was a kid. And she was inspired to make a bigger and better tasting version of the Easy Bake chocolate cake with sprinkles. I...

Don’t worry. This isn’t turning into a baking blog. I got the cookbook Black Girl Baking by Jerrelle Guy for Christmas. I first saw Jerrelle on the show High on the Hog on Netflix. She had such interesting flavors and textures with her raw raspberry hibiscus cheesecake and her...