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Hershey Bar Cakes as Mini Bundts or Bundt Cake

March 27, 2013
Hershey Bar Bundt Cake

This may not be your typical Easter cake,  but it is the perfect post-Easter cake because you can make it with leftover milk chocolate eggs or chopped up chocolate bunnies!  Or you could just do it the old fashioned way and use actual Hershey bars.  Whatever type of milk chocolate you use, the result is [...]

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Double Chocolate Chip Bread

March 24, 2013
Double Chocolate Bread

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 popular [...]

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German Buttercream Cream Cheese Icing

March 22, 2013
German Buttercream Frosting

I’ve learned a few things about frosting over the years, one being that I really don’t care for true buttercream frosting. And by that I mean true Swiss buttercream – the kind made with eggs, granulated sugar and butter and which to me, is just too buttery.  As a sandwich cookie filling it’s okay, but [...]

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Key Lime Filled Angel Food Cake

March 20, 2013
key lime mousse cake

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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White Lily Flour “SaveThe Biscuit” Giveaway

March 18, 2013
White Lilyl Flour Biscuits

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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Happy St. Patrick’s Day — Three Easy Doctored Cake Mix Cakes

March 17, 2013
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  And Happy “End of Spring Break” for others. I think St. Patrick’s Day is more worthy of a celebration in this case, so here are a few recipe for cakes you can whip up in a hurry. The one I always make (and an excellent excuse to buy a bottle of [...]

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Sweet Revenge “Pure” Cupcakes

March 15, 2013
Sweet Revenge Cupcakes

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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Self-Rising White Lily Flour Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 13, 2013
Double Chocolate Cookies with White Lily

This recipe was a test to see how self-rising flour would work in a double chocolate cookie.  Regular all-purpose flour mixed with baking powder and salt would have been just fine, but I wanted to see if the soft winter wheat used to make White Lily would have any impact on the overall result.

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