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Caramel cheesecake: A backrub for bakers
I know how hard you’ve been working lately. Between getting ready for winter, cooking and baking for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Oh, My Aching Back Tuesday, it’s all been sitting on...
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New Orleans pecan pie bread pudding: soft and sweet as a Southern breeze
I still remember my first bread pudding, back in the early 1990s… I had just begun dating my husband and was spending the weekend at his mother’s house. She suggested bread pudding for dessert. I had...
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Rocky Road Bars: they’re in the (gift) bag
Heavenly Hash – YUM! Rocky Road – MORE YUM! Wait a minute – what’s the difference? Hmmm, let me Google this… And the answer is – not so easy to find. First of all, instead of the usual 1,765,436...
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Butterscotch Pecan Cupcakes: Flick, swish, nothin’ but net
So basketball fans, here we sit in the elbow-deep in the throes of March Madness. Oh, the things I know about basketball could fill volumes… well maybe not volumes. Maybe a volume. or a page. Do I...
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Pecan & Salted Caramel Candies: turtle love.
Just four simple players: caramel, chocolate, pecans, and sea salt. Yet the the beautiful music these four friends make together – soft with crunchy, salty with sweet, nutty with chocolate with...
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Gluten-Free Filled Breads: a sweet and savory side-by-side
Oh the woes of gluten free bread. It’s boring. Tasteless. The dough is unmanageable and not versatile. I beg to differ. When my family began making the gluten-free transition years ago, it was so hard...
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Pecan Pie Shortbread Bars
Absolutely irresistible. That was the phrase lingering in my mind after I’d taken one bite, then another, then several more of these tender, buttery, caramel-y, nut-crunchy bars, just barely cool from...
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Ode to Cheesecake
Cheesecake, oh cheesecake, You make my mouth smile with every bite I take. Just thinking of you, I’m practically sitting in a lake (of drool…) A big slice of New York-style right when I wake, Or...
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Sticky wickeds
What is it about sticky buns that just seems so perfectly in tune with this time of the year? Is it the over-the-top sweetness, the kind of sugary overkill we used to enjoy as kids, sucking on...
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Hold the mustard. Hold the ketchup. Add the ice cream
Fire up the barbecue! It’s time to grill… pound cake? When I was growing up in Hingham, Massachusetts back in the ’60s, I lived just a long stone’s throw from the Hingham Yacht Club. Unlike many of the...
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Cinnamon-cappuccino-pecan scones
A long time ago, back in the days of Wheaties and toast, America’s taste in breakfast pastry centered on muffins. Pop Tarts were the new kid on the block. Bagels had been out there forever, but only in...
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Not pumpkin. Not apple. Not even blueberry. Chocolate Chunk Pecan Pie, anyone?
Wait a minute. It’s less than 2 weeks till Thanksgiving. Shouldn’t I be seeing a pumpkin pie here? Well… yeah, if you’re totally wedded to tradition. And admittedly, this is the time of year when many...
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Oh… my… GOODNESS. Butter-Pecan Kringle
Warning: This is not your father’s kringle. Or your grandma’s. It’s not the kringle you’d buy in Copenhagen. Or in Racine, Wisconsin, home of Racine Danish Kringles – “Always the best.” Check out their...
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No flour, no leavening… no baking? No way! Chocolate Nut Cake is perfect for...
It’s with some trepidation that I approach April each year. Not because of the prospect of showers (which do indeed bring May flowers); or tax season; or Major League Baseball’s opening day, which...
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Caramel cheesecake
I know how hard you’ve been working lately. Between getting ready for winter, cooking and baking for Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Oh, My Aching Back Tuesday, it’s all been sitting on...
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New Orleans pecan pie bread pudding
I still remember my first bread pudding, back in the early 1990s… I had just begun dating my husband and was spending the weekend at his mother’s house. She suggested bread pudding for dessert. I had...
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Rocky road bars
Heavenly Hash – YUM! Rocky Road – MORE YUM! Wait a minute – what’s the difference? Hmmm, let me Google this… And the answer is – not so easy to find. First of all, instead of the usual 1,765,436 Google...
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Perfect Thanksgiving Pies
Thanksgiving is stressful. The prep, the multiple sides and appetizers and desserts that need to be made, and all those dirty dishes… it’s enough to overwhelm even the best planner. While we’ve got the...
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Easy Amaranth Pancakes
This recipe for perfect gluten-free pancakes is the only one you will need! We use amaranth flour to achieve a light and fluffy texture, which a slight nuttiness. They can be served as is or jazzed up...
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Sticky wickeds
What is it about sticky buns that just seems so perfectly in tune with this time of the year? Is it the over-the-top sweetness, the kind of sugary overkill we used to enjoy as kids, sucking on...
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