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Adapted from an old Gourmet Magazine recipe ( chocolate chip cookie recipe by Carla Rollins), these are large, slightly flat, have chewy centers and crispy edges. Chilling the dough will give you a slightly thicker and in my opinion, better cookie, but you may also bake the cookies right away. Because I make these all [...]
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Back in April, our school had a bake sale, and one of the best selling items was a brownie baked in a muffin tin. I didn’t get to try one, but the kids loved them. A few weeks later, I found a recipe for fudge brownie muffins and added it to my collection. It …
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Sunday evening, during a retail therapy session at World Market, I found some Guittard Super Chips. It was break-through session! See, I’ve been checking World Market off and on for months looking for these chips, but the World Market near my house never had them. So now they do, and I have another chocolate chip to add [...]
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One thing I love about traveling overseas is seeing all the new products and brands specific to that country. Having only been to Mexico and England, my scope is limited, but a lot of grocery stores now have import sections and it’s making the word feel like a smaller place. For instance, our grocery store [...]
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This is from Su Good Sweets. Using Jessica’s as a guide, I measured and weighed ingredients as I went along and came up with volume amounts that are slightly different than Jessica’s. They worked for me, so I’d use them again. This is a small batch version, but should double easily if you find you [...]
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Some notes on Congo Bars. The original recipe didn’t have vanilla, so I added 1 teaspoon. It also didn’t specify what type of butter to use, and since salted was all I had left, I used that. My bars were on the salty side of good, so I recommend using unsalted. But minor issues aside, [...]
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The other day someone asked me if I thought 4 sticks of butter (1 pound) was too much for a recipe. Expecting to find the 4 sticks butter balanced out by 3 or 4 cups of flour and plenty of sugar, I took a look at the recipe, which happened to be this one – [...]
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