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Today’s recipe is from Gesine Bullock-Prado’s book Confections of a Closet Master Baker. It’s a yellow cake so light people might mistake it for a donut – especially if you use fresh nutmeg. Gesine named these “Golden Eggs” because she bakes the batter in egg shaped molds, but if you don’t have those, you can [...]
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Back in 1956, this recipe made it to the finals of the Pillsbury Bake-Off. I guess back in the fifties oversize cookies were innovative, and the fact that this cookie had malted milk powder in the dough and frosting made it even more unique. The cookie didn’t win a cash prize, but it must be [...]
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Well, I drove on the highway today and am still alive. Hooray! I do it every day, but in little stretches. Today I had to do a long stretch and was anxious about it for the past week, but now it’s done and I celebrated with a new cookie. If this recipe …
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This is a recipe from yesterday. I was craving eggnog, even though I don’t really like it. Maybe I was craving nutmeg or maybe it was bourbon, but it felt like an eggnog craving so I decided to put eggnog flavors into cookies. Using the same dough-base as the blissful cranberry cookies, I …
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Happy Black Friday. I haven’t ventured out of the house yet because I’m too busy basking in the glow of Thanksgiving success. Everything turned out great — even the turkey, though it tested my patience. The fancy digital thermometer said the turkey was done an hour earlier than anticipated. I didn’t believe the thermometer, cut [...]
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As much as I love San Diego, it would be hard to move because I’d have to say goodbye to H.E.B. grocery store. Trader Joe’s is great, but I’ve grown attached to H.E.B.. And I’m not the only one — The Scabs wrote a song about it. I read somewhere Bob Schneider lost his …
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A few days ago, I asked for help identifying a recipe with a layer of cake, blueberries and cream. It was a dessert someone brought to a teacher’s conference last year and it was so good, people remembered it many months later. Baking Blonde pointed towards this recipe on allrecipes.com. On paper, it sounded like [...]
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