These hand pies made with a fresh bourbon and strawberry jam filling and a perfect flakey and buttery pie crust are the perfect and easy bite-sized pie treat! What is a hand pie?: A hand pie is a pie that has been turned into a cookie. It is two layers of pie dough that have…
This chocolate layer cake has a gorgeous kick of bourbon and is layered with a light and refreshing blackberry swiss meringue buttercream. This is my favorite celebration cake! The layers of rich bourbon chocolate cake are such a treat, and the blackberry frosting is so light, airy, and refreshing. The combination turns this cake into a beautiful purple showstopper. Key ingredients for this…
This is the easiest recipe for delicious homemade strawberry jam! It’s made without pectin and canning, and it’s as simple as simmering strawberries, lemon juice, sugar, and bourbon until thick. Key ingredients for this recipe: Fresh strawberries: fresh strawberries are the key ingredient in this jam. You can use frozen strawberries, but the cooking time will…
Homemade lemon cupcakes with a lovely herby kick! These cupcakes balance lemon with fresh rosemary and thyme and a tart lemon mascarpone cream cheese frosting. Southern Italy inspires these cupcakes, and they combine all the wonderful flavors of the Amalfi Coast with a moist and light cupcake How do these lemon cupcakes taste? Sunshine SummerSouthern Italy Fresh…
Pate started the blog The G&M Kitchen in early 2019 as a place to share her family's love of food and recipe development. Since then, the G&M Kitchen has grown into a thriving baking blog and a place for Pate to experiment with her passions, baking, and photography.
The recipes on The G&M Kitchen are inspired by Pate's childhood in Kentucky and her travels around the globe. Through her adventures, she has developed a love for Italian, English, and Scandinavian baking and loves to meld those flavors and techniques with those prevalent in the American South. She also believes if a recipe is missing something, it's probably bourbon.
She currently resides in Louisville, KY, and when not baking or photographing, she loves to travel, read, and hike.