Bake or Break

Let me first clarify that I don’t like banana pudding. I know, I know that a good Southern girl should like it, but I just don’t. For the record, I don’t like sweet tea or watermelon, either.

So, how is it that I’m sharing this recipe with you? I probably wouldn’t be if not for a friend and former co-worker who introduced me to it. She just swore that I would like it, despite my dislike of banana pudding in general.

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Taking a little break from holiday baking, I made this dessert for my sister’s birthday. For some reason, I had it in my head that I wanted to make a charlotte. I’d never made one before, and it just seemed like the thing to make for her [...]

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Much like chess squares, this recipe is one of those that sneaks its way into everyone’s recipe box, yet no one really knows its origin. Of course, these kinds of recipes wouldn’t stick around like if they weren’t good.

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In the last year or so, I have definitely found my love for hazelnuts. Seriously, where have those been all my life? Of course, to optimize hazelnuts, there must be chocolate. When I found the recipe for this gianduja (apparently means Nutella) mousse in Food & [...]

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It seems that lately I’ve been inundating you lovely readers with an abundance of no-bake recipes. My only reasoning is that it has been yet another long, hot summer, and baking has not been high on my list of desired activities. I will get the oven turned [...]

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With the overwhelming love of peanut butter in my family, I consider it a wonderful challenge to find new peanut butter recipes for family to-dos. For my Daddy’s birthday, I started searching for a recipe and re-stumbled upon this recipe from Martha Stewart. It’s a lovely combination of graham cracker crust, [...]

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We recently visited our very good friends in Durham, North Carolina, which is quite a lovely place by the way. Tonya and I have been cooking together for years, and we did make dinner one night instead of eating at one of the Triangle’s wonderful restaurants. For [...]

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For months, I’ve been wanting to make this dessert. First, for Christmas, I got The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook, which includes the recipe. Then, I was even more sold on it when Deb made it. So, what took me so long? Finding those chocolate wafer cookies. [...]

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When I first heard about World Nutella Day, I knew that my love of that wonderful chocolate-hazelnut spread required me to participate. That decision was the easy part. Knowing what to contribute was the hard part. Then, inspiration hit me as I drove home last night. [...]

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Anytime between Thanksgiving and New Years, my mother was likely to make up a batch of these for guests or just for us when we asked. The recipe came from an old holiday cookbook that she had for as long as I can remember. I don’t even know the name [...]

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