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White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake was everywhere ten years ago, but the place I mostly remember eating it was at the bookstore coffee shop where it would either be stellar or stale depending on the time of day or from whom they ordered it. At some point I guess I had too many stale pieces because [...]
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Thanks to everyone who entered the Smucker’s giveaway. I enjoyed reading all your comments (as usual) and wish I could give the prize to everyone, but the comment that was picked at random was from Alyson. She’s making seasoned nuts for her husband’s co-workers and Monster cookies for everyone else. Go Alyson. As for me, [...]
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A few weeks ago I made a peppermint cheesecake using an easy gelatin based recipe from an old Philadelphia Cream Cheese booklet. We liked it so much that I decided to try another recipe from the book — a recipe with the intriguing title “Very Smooth Cheesecake”. Maybe they meant to call it “Smoothie Cheesecake” [...]
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If you spot the new limited edition Candy Cane Oreos, you may want to buy two bags — one for eating. and another for baking. They taste much better than I imagined (like Girl Scout Thin Mints in Oreo form) and have so many potential uses in baked goods. I couldn’t decide whether to chunk [...]
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If you can’t decide between cheesecake or regular cake and like the attributes of Boston Cream Pie, this dessert has it all! The recipe is from my friend Alton’s family cookbook. If you recognize it as one from Philadelphia Cream Cheese, take a closer look because you’ll see that there’s less cream cheese, sugar and [...]
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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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In light of some very exciting travel plans next week which I hope will bring lots of fun things to write about, today’s recipe is called Hollywood Cheesecake. It’s actually a very old recipe, but I’d never tried it; and with its simple proportions, it was the perfect recipe for experimentation. Rather than make [...]
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