Chocolate Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Inn on Mill Creek

Scene from the 2012 Cookie Tour at Inn on Mill Creek

Without further ado, here is the cookie recipe we tailored for the 2012 Visions of Sugar Plums B&B Cookie Tour, in which Black Mountain area B&Bs opened their doors for cookie tourgoers to sample different cookies and view all the Christmas and holiday decorations, all to benefit a great charity, the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry.
Our theme may need to be “chocolate” for future cookie tours…our concoction last year, Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies, was pretty popular, too!

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

We had a blast during the 2011 Black Mountain B&B Visions of Sugarplums Christmas Cookie Tour! It was great meeting visitors to the Inn on Mill Creek and sharing our little neck of the woods — and our cookies! We had the awesome Jo Northup performing on hammered dulcimer and flute for guests. And the tour benefited a wonderful charity, the Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry, which provides local residents and stranded travelers with basic and emergency assistance. The SVCM has a food pantry, coordinates the Meals on Wheels program, works with the local homeless shelter, helps those in need with critical financial assistance, and aids in finding job opportunities, job training and educational advancement. Their work is so important in our community and we’re extremely grateful to everyone who bought tickets to the Cookie Tour to help out this great group of volunteers.

Honey Lime Fresh Fruit Cocktail

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

Our latest recipe is a super easy and great-tasting fruit side for breakfast, and you can modify the fruit depending on what’s in season. For example, the photo above is our mid-summer version with strawberries, blueberries, peaches, cantaloupe and green grapes. We tend to use 4-5 different fruits in our cocktail for variety and color.You can also vary the kind of honey. We tend toward our local sweet stuff — sourwood honey — but wildflower honey and orange honey and just plain honey honey work great.

Cinnamon Peach Bread

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

We hope you’ll forgive our blog hiatus. We’ve been working on several upcoming projects (can’t wait to share them with you!) but we’re back now and giving you, dear blog reader, our full attention.

Scones

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

We’ve been making scones quite a bit lately. For some reason, we had put them in the “they’re a bit complicated, so save them for special occasions” baking category, but once we started delving into different recipes for scones, we found they aren’t much of a challenge at all. Who knew!?

Below is our June recipe, for scones, adapted from Southern Living. {What’s cool is when they come out just like the picture in the magazine — December 2010 issue by the way. Thanks once again, Southern Living!}

Brown Sugar Pecan Mini Scones
from the Inn on Mill Creek Bed & Breakfast
Prep time: 20 minutes / Bake time: 15 minutes / Serves 8-10

Ingredients

Orange Souffle

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

Our May recipe is souffle, a light egg dish that’s perfect for what we call a “small house” — 4 to 6 guests. You may have heard of cheese souffle or some other savory version. We do a sweet twist with an orange souffle (with optional strawberry topping in season), best served warm right out of the oven all fluffy and puffy and pretty. The biggest concern for those who make souffle is that the souffle will collapse before it gets to the table, due to the fact that as the souffle cools, the air inside is released, deflating the souffle.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (gluten free!)

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek


Ding! Cookies are ready!

Our April recipe is our Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, an adaptation on a Southern Living recipe. With no flour needed, this recipe is automatically gluten free. And even better, they are super easy to make!

Individual Apple Crisps

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

For our March recipe, we’ve picked one of our popular fruit side dishes: apple crisp. Rather than serve out of a large dish, we make ours in individual portions of appley goodness topped with a fabulous crumbly topping. One entree we like to serve with our apple crisps is Dave’s vegetable and ham quiche (with homemade sausage balls on the side as well).

Popovers

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Inn on Mill Creek

Ah, the popover. Light and airy, the popover is a nice complimentary side dish for our hearty breakfast entries, such as Dave’s frittata. Considered the distant American cousin of the English Yorkshire pudding, the popover has been in existence since at least 1850, and the first popover recipe to be printed in a cookbook appeared in 1876. We have no idea how much the original recipe is like ours, but here’s what our version looks like. Enjoy!