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Better Chocolate Chip Cookie Brittle
When I made cookie brittle a few months ago, I liked it, blogged about it, and then wished it were a bit more brittle-like. So I went back to the original Nestle recipe, tinkered with it a bit, and...
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Nutella-Swirl Pound Cake
I love holidays, and today is World Nutella Day! Sara from Ms. Adventures in Italy and Michelle from Bleeding Espressodeclared today a day to celebrate, to get creative with, and most importantly, to...
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Chocolate Granola
This year, Charlie has 3rd period lunch. This means she has her first class at 8 am, and has lunch at 10 am. Kinda early. This was weird but fine, until basketball season began. She has practice every...
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Chocolate Chunk Pretzel Bars
If you've never browned butter before, you are about to discover a source of incredible deliciousness. Browning makes butter nuttier, more intense, and can give baked goods a chewier texture. It's not...
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Faster Chocolate Pots de Creme
Some days, I really enjoy puttering in the kitchen, baking dozens of cookies, making pancake mix and chicken stock. Other days, I need chocolate, it's late in the afternoon, and my brain is fried....
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Golden Vanilla Pound Cake
As much as I crave chocolate, there are days where I prefer the sweet, flowery scent of vanilla wafting through my kitchen. The other day, as I was browsing the interwebs, I found this treasure of a...
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Cookies and Cream Brownies
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, or in some neighborhoods, including mine, Paczki Day. Pronounced "poonch-key", they are eggy doughnuts filled with jam or pastry cream. Some folks...
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Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Snack Cake
Tax season is in full swing, so a bit less time for baking and blogging. Here's quickie, a hearty snack cake starring (yet again) oats and chocolate. I enjoyed mine with coffee in the afternoon,...
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Not Very Irish Soda Bread
I do love the real deal. Brown, dense, nutty, slathered with irish butter. This is the other one, american-ized with caraway, raisins, butter and egg. Real soda bread needs to be eaten within hours of...
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New Orleans Lemon Pie
I loved Nancie McDermott's last book, Southern Cakes, where she presents a fantastic variety of recipes, including some I'd never heard of, like the Pear Bread I made last year. So when I finally got...
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Caramel Frosting
Here is another quick post, work is crazy right now. My family loves a classic caramel cake - classic meaning a yellow cake with a cooked caramel frosting. My husband likes the frosting to be soft, but...
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Spekkuk, an Indonesian Spice Cake
It was damp and gloomyin Chicagoover the weekend, but since I was working, I didn't mind too much. Sunday afternoon we toured the Museum of Contemporary Art, it was just the break I needed.When we came...
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"Baked" Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cake
I can't believe it took so long to try this recipe, after all, it comes from the Baked boy's latest cookbook, and it contains two of my favorite ingredients - oatmeal and chocolate. Now that I've...
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Matzoh Buttercrunch
We don't celebrate Passover at my house, we're on the Easter team. But since I was little, I've associated the Passover holiday with unusual treats. Egg and Onion matzoh and those sticky candy fruit...
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Hot Cross Buns With Currants, Apricots, and Cranberries
Easter is nearly here, and this year, I actually have time to do a bit of holiday baking! Usually, I work on tax returns all Easter weekend, my family is lucky to get a ham dinner. This year, the...
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Oatmeal Bread #1
You may be surprised to know I'd never made oatmeal bread before. How could I have missed this? Brown, sweet, nutty bread just begging for butter and jam. Lovely toasted for breakfast, delicious with...
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Flaky Scones
Like many women in North America, I woke up extra early this morning to watch the Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. My daughter woke up even earlier to watch the BBC "pre-game" coverage....
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Silky Chocolate Frosting
The other day, Charlie asked me to help her make cupcakes for a friend's birthday. I was pleased, not just that Charlie wanted to bake and spend a little time with me, but that she knows baking is...
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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
I had taken a couple months off from baking for theNight Ministryduring tax season, but I really missedit. Not because I'm such a sharing and caring kind of gal (although I totally am), but I love to...
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Mexican Chocolate Streusel Brownies
I love Mexican chocolate in the winter. If you've never had Mexican chocolate, it's a blend of chocolate, sugar, ground almonds and cinnamon that you melt in milk and then whisk into a deliciously...
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