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Chocolate Graham Cracker Cupcakes with Toasted Marshmallow Icing

March 29, 2010
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I discovered something about Eileen back when I made the homemade marshmallows–she may love smores even more than I do. I know it’s hard to believe, since I’m famous for eating marshmallows until I’m nearly sick, and adding grahams and chocolate just makes it that much better, but it’s true. Something else you may not [...]

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Banana Oat Chocolate Chunk Cookies

March 26, 2010
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What do you do with a ripe banana early in the morning? That was the question I faced on the first day of spring as I spied these two winter fruit stragglers hanging out in our fruit bowl. Yes, in our house bananas are winter only fruit, as in, fruit you buy when nothing else [...]

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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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Old Fashioned Oatmeal Cookies

February 8, 2010
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So what do you do with a snow day? Bake of course! I did lots and lots of baking during Snowmageddon 2010. Rolls and breads were flying out of my kitchen Friday afternoon like nobody’s business. But then Saturday rolled around, and the propsect of shoveling loomed. As I mentioned earlier, Noel stayed up late [...]

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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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Inside-Out Black Forest Cake

January 8, 2010
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No dinner party–even one with a spectacular pork loin as the main–is complete without a really fantastic dessert. Yeah, I know I don’t need much of an excuse to reach into my *fancy* dessert file, but I wanted to do something really special for new years. Remember my favorite recipe source this holiday season, Martha’s [...]

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Christmas Bread Pudding

December 29, 2009
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In my last post, I lamented a holiday on the road where folks beyond the first stop on a four day road trip would not receive the pleasure of an elaborate Ratskellar holiday dessert. But luckily for the folks at the first stop, there was a fancy dessert that traveled. And it traveled well. No, [...]

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Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

December 21, 2009
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Have you ever bought a cookbook based on the appeal of just one recipe? Well, I certainly have. And mostly, they seem to be Martha Stewart Cookbooks. I bought Martha’s “Cupcakes” cookbook, after finding out there was a recipe for these snickerdoodle cupcakes. I LOVE snickerdoodles, but Noel’s not such a fan. But I was [...]

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