A Celebration of Food and my Culinary Adventures
Fruit Crumble Coffee Cake; with its moist, rich, and buttery crumb, bursting with fresh fruit flavor, and crowned with a rich, crunchy cinnamon streusel that then is topped with a light dusting of powder sugar […]
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The pleasure of cooking and baking during the holiday season is that we get to indulge ourselves. Celebrating the holidays with those you love and sharing the wonderfully decadent and full flavored […]
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Double Stuffed Chocolate Cupcakes; Celebrates the idea of “more is better.” I start with a decadent chocolate cupcake and then fill it with a rich pastry cream, then dipped the top […]
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The Brownie. A true American baked good. Did you know the first recipe developed in 1896 as Brownies didn’t have any chocolate? Most people couldn’t imagine a brownie without the ubiquitous chocolate. But, by 1904, chocolate found its […]
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With Thanksgiving leftovers in the refrigerator and Christmas lights and decorations going up around the house. It is time to turn to the season of holiday baking and cooking. […]
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“Don’t mess with a good thing!” Well sometimes messing with a tried and true recipe can be good! The Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Recipe is one of those recipes that has […]
Read More…Cookies or Candy you decide for yourself. These delicious little Bon Bon Cookies are easy to make ahead and give as gifts. Add flavorings to the dough or change the […]
Read More…“Stop playing with your food!” We all have heard these words at some point in our lives. Usually it’s children who are on the receiving end of this advice and sometimes […]
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The fields behind my home were glazed with frost as the sun came up this morning. Triggering memories of visiting apple orchards around Marshall, Michigan in the fall when […]
Read More…Even though I didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas. I still made these cookies…learning to bend the rules at a early age…using non-Christmas cutters. This is from the Rolled Cookies section […]
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