Winter

Two sugar cookies decorated with marbled blue, white, and black snowflake designs

Make an abstract snowflake cookie

If you’ve ever seen an image of a snowflake under a microscope, you know how amazingly beautiful they are. Individually or in clusters, snowflakes rival any artwork created by …

A white candle cake centerpiece decorated to look like a large candle

Make this candle cake centerpiece

Something happened while I snuck up on people as part of Burn Brae Mansion’s Dark Forest Fright Walk in Glen Spey, NY this past October… The holiday season snuck up on me! …

A chocolate snowman dessert with frosting, chocolate chip buttons, and a scarf

Make this chocolate bomb snowman

Maybe it was a coincidence that we experienced our first significant snowfall of the season as I began to write this column (January 7, to be exact—Russian Orthodox Christmas). And it’s …

A white fondant polar bear cake topper with black eyes and paw pads on an ice-themed base

Make this polar bear cake topper out of modeling chocolate

My birthday is in January, and as a child growing up in Liberty, NY, I remember how it was always too cold and snowy for me to have a party. On the plus side, the ice, snow and freezing wind made …