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After having dinner at a steakhouse last week, we decided to share dessert. Todd wanted Key lime pie and I wanted cheesecake. Fuzz’s job was to break the tie, but since she was indifferent we settled on cheesecake so long as I promised to make a Key lime pie later in the week. This dessert [...]
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If you ever run out of cupcake papers or just want to try something new, here’s a trick I learned last week while watching a Martha Stewart video. Instead of cupcake wrappers, you can stick 5 inch squares of parchment paper into the cupcake cups, press them down with the bottom of a drinking glass, [...]
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Not that you need an excuse, but it’s National Pound Cake Day so bake a pound cake! That is, if you like pound cake. It’s actually not my favorite type of cake, but it’s a good complement to the berries that have been on sale lately. That, plus I’ve been searching for top pound cakes [...]
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A few weeks ago I stopped by a local thrift store to look around. There were the usual old clothes, used jewelry and old appliances from the ’70s, but the real find was in the book section. Hidden on the bottom shelf was a stack of 12 issues of Cook’s Illustrated from 2000 to about [...]
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These egg-free cupcakes were inspired by a vintage cookbook called The Cake Book which I bought last year at Bonnie Slotnick’s store in New York. The recipe caught my eye because it was egg-free and I was out of eggs, but in the end I certainly didn’t miss the eggs. The cupcakes were terrific! The [...]
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In my ongoing quest to find great cupcakes, here’s a recipe I clipped seven years ago from Chocolatier Magazine. It’s called White Mountain Coconut Cupcakes, and the secret ingredient is (drumroll please) coconut milk! Not that coconut milk is really so secret. I’ve seen it in various cupcake recipes, but tend to forget about it. [...]
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Happy Friday! And to celebrate, here’s a wacky but very tasty cake. It’s called ‘Tato Cake (though my relatives would have called it ‘Tater Cake) and it’s a chocolate Bundt cake made with Hungry Jack mashed potato flakes. You can’t taste the potatoes in the cake, but they add bulk and give the cake a [...]
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Updated: I just got a bad review (from a trusted source) for Cupcake Recipe #2, so I’ve taken it down. I guess nobody likes flat topped cupcakes. Boo Hoo. So now it’s between this one and the Martha Stewart Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes from a few days ago. For this cupcake I started with a basic [...]
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