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Summer is coming, and summer calls for light, refreshing summer-y desserts. These lemon blueberry cheesecake bars blend the perfect amount of sweetness, tartness, richness, creaminess and crunchiness. You could probably use any berry with good results. I love the combination of lemon and blueberry, so these are my kind of dessert bar. They are very [...]
Bread is not my forte. I am scared of things that require proofing yeast and waiting for dough to double in size. Because inevitably the yeast does not proof, and the dough does not double. I know all the tricks to avoid such problems. Make sure your yeast is active and not expired. Make [...]
Mother’s Circus Cookies are one of the most fun and delicious packaged cookies you can buy at the store. How can you resist these sweet animal-shaped cookies covered in white and hot pink icing and rainbow sprinkles? Well, you probably can’t resist them…unless for some crazy reason you have never tried them, or, even more [...]
In college a friend gave me a recipe for chocolate chip cookies that uses pudding mix in the dough resulting in an extra soft and tasty cookie. Of course I lost the recipe in one of the 4 moves I’ve made across Texas in the last 5 years. I came across this recipe this past [...]
An undeniable craving for oatmeal cookies struck me last week. I rummaged through the baking cabinet…yes, I have a cabinet filled almost exclusively with baking goods and gadgets…and found a bag of peanut butter chips. Mmm. Then I went to the pantry and was drawn toward the jar of creamy peanut butter and the [...]
Glorious guacamole. It is one of my favorite foods not just because of its deliciousness, but because it is so very versatile. You can enjoy it as a dip for chips, as a spread for a sandwich, in a wrap, on a taco, on fajitas and on top of a salad. Guacamole is also good [...]
Breakfast. The most important meal of the day. It also happens to be the most boring meal of the day for me most of the time. I am not organized enough, and I don’t get up early enough to fix anything more exciting than a bowl of cereal and some fruit. Every now and [...]
A few weeks ago I caught the end of Oprah while on the treadmill at the gym. Her guests were the contestants of the 2010 Pillsbury Bake-Off, and at the end of the show they revealed the winner of the $1,000,000 grand prize. This was the winning recipe, Mini Ice Cream Cookie Cups. These little [...]
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