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Sweets for a Sweetie–Vintage American Valentine’s Cards

February 7, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 3 Comments

Do you remember, as I do, Valentine cards featuring cute little girls whipping up sweet treats and delivering “punny” messages like, “Valentine, I’m sweet on ...

How to Use a Marbling Technique to Decorate Valentine’s Cookies, Plus an Icing for All-Natural Food Colors

January 30, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 1 Comment

Recently I posted about my switch from decorating with regular commercial liquid food dyes to all-natural botanical alternatives. I explained here why I think ...

Pastry Decorating the “Naturally Beautiful” Way–How to Avoid Synthetic Food Colors & Use Botanical Dyes

January 27, 2012 By Nancy Baggett 8 Comments

Over the past decade I’ve been exploring how to minimize the use of synthetic food dyes in my pastry decorating. In fact, all the icings pictured ...

Welcome to KitchenLane! It’s a comfortable place where I create, thoroughly test, and photograph recipes for my cookbooks and blog. All my recipes are original, not adaptations from others. I trained as a pastry chef, so many offerings are desserts and baked goods. Some are also healthful, savory dishes I contribute to healthy eating publications. My recipes are always free of artificial dyes, flavorings, and other iffy additives, which I won’t serve my family—or you! Instead, dishes feature naturally flavorful, colorful ingredients including fresh herbs, berries, edible flowers, and fruits, many from my own suburban garden or local farmers’ markets. Since lots of readers aspire to write cookbooks, I also blog on recipe writing and editing and other helpful publishing how-to info accumulated while authoring nearly 20 well-received cookbooks over many years.