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As part of the Pillsbury Baking giveaway I posted a few days ago, Pillsbury sent me a few boxes of their new cake mixes to experiment with. This cake (along with the White Chocolate Cheesecake Key Lime Bundt Cake) was one of the experiments. I wanted to see how using a popular technique for extending [...]
Published on May 5, 2013

(Giveaway Over) Hooray! I have yet another fun giveaway from Pillsbury Baking. The theme is “Celebrating Every Day Occasions”, one of which just happens to be the change of seasons. With Spring in full bloom and Summer on the way, Pillsbury is introducing frosting, cake and cookie mixes that capture the essence of warmer months, [...]
Published on May 2, 2013

This month a little town in Texas called West suffered a devastating fertilizer plant explosion. Lives were lost, many were injured and homes were demolished. As you can imagine, this event has affected many of our friends and family, and the people of Texas are doing whatever they can to help. One event taking place [...]
Published on April 29, 2013

Put on your sunglasses because the baking aisle just got a little bit brighter! In honor of Funfetti’s 25th birthday, Pillsbury has created four bold and vibrantly colored Funfetti frostings. You can read more about the Funfetti promotion on Facebook, but take a minute to enter this giveaway for Cookie Madness readers. It includes the [...]
Published on April 16, 2013

Here’s a way to test your self control: Bake a batch of cinnamon swirl bread, let it cool for a few minutes and turn it from the pan. Now try — just try to restrain yourself from slicing into it. I really thought I could, but after baking a loaf using Dorie Greenspan’s recipe I [...]
Published on April 4, 2013

It’s starting to feel like Spring around here, so how about a nice lemony dessert? Er, sort of. This dessert doesn’t contain any actual lemons, but rather a box of instant lemon pudding, Cool Whip and cream cheese. In other words, it’s Todd’s favorite type of dessert. The recipe is called Lemon Lush and the [...]
Published on March 8, 2013

If your idea of The Perfect 10 involves cookies, all bases are covered with this giveaway. In conjunction with the #AmexMakeMyDay program, supermodel cookie lover Karlie Kloss and genius pastry chef Christina Tosi want to make your day by sending you and someone you love a tin of Perfect 10 Kookies. Perfect 10 is a [...]
Published on February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day from Dunkin’ Donuts! And let me just say that I am so jealous of all of you who live near one. When we lived in the northeast, we stopped in all the time; and if I had a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby I would totally start my Valentine’s Day with a piping hot [...]
Published on February 13, 2013