Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake

19. June 2006

This recipe is such a wonderfully easy made-from-scratch cake. I tend to be reluctant to make cakes in 9×13 pans, just for aesthetic reasons, but this sounded so good I had to try it. The title doesn’t really give away much about this cake. It is a wonderfully rich, moist chocolate cake with an even [...]

Chocolate Coconut Almond Cheesecake

19. June 2006

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For Father’s Day, my father said he wanted cheesecake. Flipping through my very favorite cheesecake book, I Love Cheesecake by Mary Crownover, I found what I had to make for him. Chocolate Coconut Almond Cheesecake. Essentially, it’s an Almond Joy cheesecake. This I knew he would love. His aunt used to make him a cake [...]

Dipped Peanut Butter Meltaway Cookies

13. June 2006

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I was intrigued by this recipe. Chocolate. Peanut butter. No eggs. Lots of corn starch. Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to try them out. I think it is safe to say that I’ve never made anything with 1/2 cup of corn starch. Maybe 1/2 teaspoon. I suppose they are used in [...]

Garlic Knots

11. June 2006

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Our favorite place to be is New York City. So much culture — so much food! My NYC guilty pleasure is an order of garlic knots from any pizzeria, sometimes instead of pizza. As a guest baker (and full-time husband), I made Emeril’s garlic knot recipe. The pizza dough portion of the recipe was a [...]

Cinnamon Sugar Biscuits

10. June 2006

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Breakfast baking may be my favorite. That may be because I get to do it so seldom. I’m not exactly a morning person, so it’s not likely that I would get up early enough to bake before going off to work. Today, however, I have nowhere to go and nothing to do. So, breakfast it [...]

Amaretto Cake

9. June 2006

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While browsing AllRecipes, I found this recipe for an amaretto bundt cake that starts with a boxed yellow cake mix. Apparently, over 150 people think it is good enough to warrant a five star rating, so I had to try it myself. I think cake mixes are wonderful. I used to be opposed to them, [...]

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