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For Mother’s Day, Fuzz gave me a bottle of Penzey’s pumpkin pie spice along with a request to make some pumpkin muffins. Because she picked such a sweet present, I took her up on her offer and made a batch of what is currently our favorite pumpkin muffin recipe. It doesn’t call for any crazy [...]
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Today’s creation resulted from my attempt to use up half a can of crushed pineapple that had been hanging out in the refrigerator. At first I was going to make regular pineapple muffins, but since I eat baked goods during the day rather than at breakfast, I decided to go with something a little more [...]
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If you like baking with sweeteners other than sugar and enjoy scones, you will love today’s recipe. It’s for rich, buttery, scones sweetened with maple syrup and loaded with pecans and dried fruit (or in this case, chocolate chips). The recipe is from a new cookbook called Modern Maple, written by Teresa Marrone and published [...]
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After a string of failed baking experiments yesterday, I was happy to receive this tried and true, grade A+ recipe from a reader named Steven. Steven knew I had a lot of recipes for quick breads, but because he’d made this bread three times in the past few days and because it was so …
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Last September White Lily Flour celebrated National Biscuit Month with a campaign called “Save The Biscuit”. The goal was not only to celebrate the “iconic” quick bread, but to put the spotlight on memorable times spent in the kitchen sharing family meals or learning new cooking techniques. Well, it’s March. I obviously missed the [...]
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Today’s recipe is made with White Lily, a soft wheat flour popular in the South. For the past few weeks I’ve been using all-purpose, but this week I switched to self-rising White Lily and am loving the results. In America, it seems that most bakers use all-purpose flour mixed with a combination of baking powder [...]
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Just when you think you’ve tried every banana bread recipe in the book, along comes this one from The Fairmont Hotel. Carolyn from Canada has been making it for years, and wanted to share it because it’s a little bit different. What’s unique about this banana bread is that it’s baked at a very low [...]
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A few people have emailed saying they’re recovering from the holidays and aren’t doing much baking this month. I wish I was in that category, but every time I walk through the kitchen I’m compelled to pull out the ingredients and make something. Dinner? No. Sweets and treats? Yes! So I’m trying …
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