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My New Year’s resolution was to drink more wine. Goal accomplished! So this year’s is to make more cakes, and to get started, I used a recipe from XO Jane. They don’t have a recipe section (yet), but a creative baker named Marianne took took a whiskey cake recipe from the New …
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Will 2012 be the year for layer cakes? I don’t know, but I’d happily embrace that trend if it were to catch on. So let’s hope for a year of exciting and/or really good cake recipes. Until then, here’s a round-up of my favorites. For chocolate cake, here are 9 favorites plus the …
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Fuzz and I made these in an attempt to use up some oranges we bought earlier in the week. And while we typically don’t love orange flavor in bread nor honey flavor in large amounts, the two flavors balanced each other out and tasted great. What was really special was the texture. Unlike heavy, biscuit-like [...]
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Fuzz and her friends love cake mix based confetti cookies, so I was really happy to see a scratch version in my newly acquired Momofuku Milk Bar cookbook. If you don’t have the book, you can grab the Confetti Cookie recipe off Serious Eats. And if you’re still on the fence about getting the book, [...]
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The post-holiday blahs have zapped my motivation to try anything new, but here’s a fairly old chocolate chip cookie you might have missed or just forgotten about. I baked some this morning and figured they were worth posting, especially since some of you love chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and soft chewy centers. This [...]
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If you haven’t perfected classic New York style cheesecake, here’s a recipe worth trying in the new year. I’ve made it twice in the past two weeks and think it might be our new go-to cheesecake. Or at least I hope. I need to stop hopping from one cheesecake recipe to another. Anyhow, this one [...]
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I’m quite happy with the 1001 Cookie Starter Mix. Just look at these chocolate chips cookies. These were made with the homemade mix I told you about yesterday (congratulations to Mary, btw, for winning the giveaway). It makes baking multiple types of cookies more convenient, plus it also makes a great gift. For the little [...]
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Since it’s the holidays and you don’t need excuses for having 5 or 10 kinds of cookies around, why not try making multiple cookies out of one big starter mix? I was resistant to the idea at first, but now that I’ve found a really good starter mix, I’m warming up to it. The starter [...]
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