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One Bowl Chocolate Cake with Swirled Icing

May 28, 2010
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About a month ago, one of our oldest friends, Bill, called me up. As he usually is, Bill was direct. “How do I go about getting you to make a cake for Amelia’s [his youngest daughter's] birthday?” Me–”well usually we start with what she wants, and we go from there.” Bill–”okay, I’ll work on finding [...]

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Blueberry Cupcakes

January 22, 2010
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A new year, time for some new education! I don’t think I’ve told you all, but I’m taking a beginner’s cake decorating class. Yay! That’s right, in a few short weeks I’ll know proper technique for loading and holding a piping bag so icing doesn’t explode out all over the place (yes it’s happened!), how [...]

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Orange Cranberry and Almond Biscotti

December 26, 2009
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A Christmas on the road. That is the story for us this year. Four days, three states, and two extended families. Over bunches of rivers through lots of woods, and over one very large bay. Whenever I go to someone’s house, I always offer to bring something, and the request is usually for dessert. As [...]

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Whole Wheat and Almond Raspberry Thumbprints

December 18, 2009
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I don’t know about you, but after that cheesecake, I’m ready for something a little bit healthier. But just a little bit, because we’re still in the midst of cookiepalooza! So, for your consideration–Raspberry Thumbprint cookies, one of my all time favorites. What makes these healthier? Well for starters, almond meal, which gives the cookies [...]

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Cranberry All Spice Bundt

November 15, 2009
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Happy National Bundt Day everyone! Did you really expect me to let this holiday pass without some kind of celebration? I need only the smallest excuse to bake these days (some might even call me addicted), and National Bundt Day, along with my need to pick a Thanksgiving cake, led me to spend an early [...]

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Apple Cranberry Cobbler

September 29, 2009
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There’s this song I love with a chorus that goes like so: the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs This weekend I was singing that song, but I changed the chorus a bit. Instead of birds there was fruit. And it goes like this: the ugliest fruit makes [...]

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Blueberry Crumb Bars

August 15, 2009

Or, what do you do with the end of an amazing blueberry summer? That’s what I found myself pondering, earlier this week, when I realized that I had in my possession what was probably the last quart of blueberries from this amazing blueberry season. I don’t know if it’s because it was so rainy earlier [...]

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Farm Loot~Baltimore Farmer’s Market 6.28.09

June 29, 2009

A couple of busy weekends had kept me (but not Noel–I needed my milk!) away from the Baltimore Farmer’s Market (the sunday one under the jfx) so I was super excited to see what would be on offer this week. Experience tells us that late June/early July is normally when the produce really starts to [...]

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