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I love crunchy ginger cookies but tend to jump from recipe to recipe and half the new recipes I try end up being chewy. Today, rather than focus on a new ginger cookie, I decided to try one of my old favorites but with a few changes. My favorite gingersnap recipe is based on “English [...]
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I haven’t posted a lot of recipe contests lately because so many involve voting and videos, but the Best of the West Christmas Cookie Contest is one I think you’ll like. It’s a good old fashioned style recipe contest based solely on what the judges think of the recipe. Plus there’s a great prize to [...]
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As a recipe collector who’s been known to bake cookies from time to time, Tracey Zabar has made my cookbook dreams come true. One Sweet Cookie: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes, is one sweet read and a must for your own personal collection. This book is special, and if you are a true cookie lover [...]
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Fuzz had a day off from school yesterday, so I used it as an excuse to pull out the old Madeleine pan. Have you noticed Madeleines are showing up everywhere? My latest spotting was at Walgreen’s drugstore. Maybe it’s fallout from the macaron craze or maybe people just like the simplicity of a Madeleine, but [...]
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Years ago I picked up a book that changed my perspective on food memoirs. Toast, by British food celebrity Nigel Slater, was so honest and poignant that I began to seek out other books of the genre hoping they’d be as well written and in some cases, as darkly comic. Sure, Toast falls under the [...]
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If you’re in the mood to try a new and very good chocolate chip cookie recipe, I have one to recommend. It’s the new “Vanilla-Rich Chocolate Chip Cookie” recipe from McCormick. With 3 1/4 cups of flour, the original recipe makes a bunch, but Fuzz and I scaled it down a bit and added a [...]
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Okay, so you might not find this type of biscotti in Florence (or anywhere else in Italy, for that matter), but it sure was fun to make! It’s a striking red color (perfect for Christmas), and the flavor is somewhat like red velvet cake, but leaning more towards chocolate. As a bonus, this recipe is [...]
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This cake was inspired by the fact I didn’t have any good chocolate on hand. Frankly, I wanted to make brownies, but duty called in the form of a bunch of lemons and an open jar of curd. This recipe was adapted from one in Fine Cooking and required two 8×2 inch deep cake pans. [...]
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