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candy

Chocolate Peppermint Crunch Bark

December 19, 2011
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This weekend was the seventh edition of the Ratskellar Holiday Party, our big annual celebration of the holidays, good cheer, and friends. It’s hard to believe that we’ve lived in this house long enough to have SEVEN holiday parties here. How did that happen? It feels like yesterday that we–committed uptown Baltimore people–moved to Southeast. [...]

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Image Transfer–The Tracing Method

July 9, 2010
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My nephew Connor loves Jeeps. Really, he loves all kind of trucks (he’s an equal opportunity type of kid) but Jeeps have a special place in his heart. So when my sister-in-law Misty asked me to make Connor’s birthday cake, I knew I had to go for the Jeep! I found the perfect Jeep cartoon [...]

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Honey Crunch Cake

April 16, 2010
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I love the spring. First there’s my birthday, then there’s Kori’s. Yay! More parties on the shore! I love my little sister so much (more than she even knows!), and I’m always so happy to spend a weekend with her. I’ll admit, this wasn’t always the case. Back when my sister my born in fact, [...]

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Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

April 9, 2010
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I will confess, I’m not much of a candy maker. Yes, I’ve made the odd batch of *oreo truffles*–crushed oreos with cream cheese dipped in chocolate–and I once entertained the idea of making actual truffles. But for whatever reason, it just never happened. Maybe I would be more interested in candy making if there was [...]

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Peanut Butter Filled Cupcakes

February 12, 2010
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Today is a very big day. See today is Noel’s birthday. And not just any birthday–he’s 40 today! I can’t believe Noel’s birthday has come up so fast. I feel like I’ve been planning for it for months, but somehow I’m still not ready. I have no card, no dinner reservations, nothing. I’m going to [...]

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Lemon Layer Cake

January 29, 2010
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This has been a week. And no, not in a good way. My brain is old fashioned, like a calendar, so my weeks start on Sundays. And this Sunday did not start out so fantastically. After a whole day of wonderful with some of my favorite once and future travel companions, I got a big [...]

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Vanilla Marshmallows and Smores

January 18, 2010
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Sometime late last summer, I was sitting around a fire pit where folks were roasting marshmallows for smores. With a few glasses of wine in me, I boldly proclaimed, “you know, I can MAKE marshmallows!” Not that I had ever made marshmallows, but I had seen people on the internet do it, so I was [...]

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