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I stumbled upon this recipe in the Wall Street Journal one morning while in professional mode- reading articles about mergers and acquisitions and takeovers and other riveting topics. I must have ‘accidentally’ clicked on the food section and a picture of a cake sprinkled with pomegranate seeds slapped me out of my working-mode stupor. I […]
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Imagine for a second that you have a banana muffin and it’s stuffed with what can really only be described as blueberry pie filling. It’s happening. Right here, right now, in this post. I used this super-cool gadget that let me bake the muffins with a hole in them, so I could fill them with […]
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Wow, wow, wow. I made this cake (after being duly inspired by Martha Stewart’s version) years ago, and People Took Notice (yes, in caps). I shared the recipe with you a while back with raspberries making center stage (remember the Crazy-Good Raspberry Cake?), but knew that strawberries needed their day in the sun (ha!). I […]
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I had no idea this dessert was going to taste this good. I wanted something summery, something cold, something light. I liked the idea of orange and vanilla (flashback to Orange Julius at the mall as a kid), and thought it would be a perfectly above average dessert. But no! This is a perfectly excellent […]
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I am so excited by these! Yeah, we’ve all had blueberry muffins, and I’ve posted more than my share of blueberry-filled recipes. But these. These muffins have a crumbly top, which takes them out of this realm and into another kind of buttery, sugary world. (I think crumble tops make anything better. Maybe I’ll start putting […]
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Sometimes us bakers just need to chill the freak out. Sometimes a “no bake” recipe just works. Sometimes it’s just too hot to preheat the oven, let alone have it raging at 375º for several hours (because if you’re anything like me, you don’t just bake one dessert at a time… you bake like two […]
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I was given a ginormous bag full of fresh rhubarb the other day (thanks, Charles!) and had to do something with the approximately 8,000 stalks taking up way too much room in our fridge. (For real- the bag took up so much room that our Brita water thingy had to sit on the kitchen counter. […]
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I love nothing more than a baking request. (Well, that might be an exaggeration. I love Kosta Browne wine [we got on the wine club list! we got on the wine club list! we got on the wine club list! after only 3 years of waiting, we got on the wine club list!] + The […]
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I heard a rumor that it’s spring, and since I’m an eternal optimist I am inherently forced to believe it. The date says it’s spring, but Mother Nature must have one hell of a hangover because she’s still in massive hibernation mode. It’s okay though, because I’ve found the remedy for winter weather: spring desserts. […]
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This dessert is kind of like a Valentine’s month must. Everyone likes cheesecake, and the people that say they don’t really like cheesecake don’t really know what they are talking about. They just haven’t tried this cheesecake, maybe. Because who could resist a little mini cheesecake? And the jam- it’s red for God’s sake- who […]
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I know I just made cranberry and white chocolate cookies, but I just couldn’t stay away from the combo. I had extra shortbread dough leftover (from making the most excellent Fruitcake Shortbread with Rum Glaze) and knew I had to reunite the medley of flavors again (also because I really want to use the cranberries before […]
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Be not afraid of the whole “fruitcake” thing, folks. This is really just a fantastic shortbread with a killer glaze, that happens to have pieces of dried fruit stirred into it to be considered somewhat festive. I was thumbing through a magazine in the checkout at the grocery store last week and saw this […]
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“Easy as pie.” Now I know where that saying came from, especially when you thaw the pie crust scraps that you’re lucky enough to have in the freezer to make this pseudo pie. It’s also easy as pie to roll said dough into shapes that generally resemble circles, then bake them for a few minutes […]
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But really- who doesn’t love a Napoleon? (You know, the dessert made with layers of puff pastry and other things that aren’t good for your arteries but so very good for your soul?) This is a bit of a slacker Napoleon recipe, so raise a glass to that point first and foremost (meaning, you don’t […]
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I used to think that white chocolate was destined to be stirred into a cookie batter with its exotic (and expensive) friend, the macadamia nut. I used to think it couldn’t get any better than that for white chocolate, because after all, the White Chocolate Macadamia Nut & Lime Cookie IS monumental. (Oh, so is the […]
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I need to make an apple pie soon, I know, but I needed to make a masterpiece with the puff pastry burning a hole in our freezer more than anything. Apple strudel is like the cooler cousin of apple pie. Apple strudel has international experience and offers the life-gratifying benefits of the plain Jane pie […]
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I have a thing for blueberries. I eat a 6 oz. container every single freaking day, which means that we spend $2,186.35 on blueberries every year, give or take (the ‘give’ is when the berries cost more than $6 because the markets know they can take advantage of people who prefer the word ‘organic’ […]
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Hand pies are all the rage these days. So naturally I jumped on that wagon and whipped up six of them, happy to have something to do with the blueberries that seemed to be multiplying in the fridge. Happy to feel like a trendy baker, hip with the baking times. (I am the antithesis of […]
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